About Us

Time to Disciple America is an outgrowth of the ministry, GoMultiply.  GoMultiply began in 2015 and was founded by Kurt and Carrie Olson.  Kurt and Carrie both grew up in a denominational religion or religious system that does not stress the importance of being born-again.  Kurt was a rebellious child who spent his teen years in pursuit of the things of this world.  From about the age of 13 to 21, Kurt’s life was filled with the pursuit of the lusts of the flesh. Rock’n’roll music, alcohol, drugs, girls, fast cars, and rebellion were the hallmarks of his life. 

Then, in 1987, the Lord saved Kurt from destruction and brought him into a saving relationship with Himself.  Kurt had made such a mess of his life that he was contemplating suicide.  He realized he was destroying his life, and he was hurting all the people around him.  He came to the conclusion that it would be better for the world if he wasn’t in it, because he was causing so much pain and heartache.  So in a moment of desperation, Kurt took a Bible and stood it on its binding.  He spoke to God and said, “I’m not even sure you exist, but if you do exist, I need you to show me how to live.  And if you don’t show me how to live, I’m just gonna end my life in this world so I don’t keep hurting people.”  Then he let the Bible fall open to any random page, and he took his finger and dropped it into the middle of the open page and began to read. 

The Bible had opened up to 1 Kings 2:2, which reads, “Be strong, and show yourself to be a man, and observe what the Lord your God requires, walk in His ways, and keep His decrees, His laws, and His requirements…and then you will prosper in all that you do and wherever you go.”  Wow!  Kurt couldn’t believe his eyes.  He had just asked God to show him how to live his life, and then the Bible just happens to open up to a verse where King David is telling his son, the future king, Solomon how to live his life.  Kurt began to weep, and he fell to his knees and threw his hands in the air.  He said “OK, you win, I give up.”  It was at that moment that Kurt surrendered his life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and became born-again. 

Kurt was so grateful to God for meeting him, answering his prayer, and saving his soul, that the very next day, he committed to join a youth ministry training program. He went to work that day and put in his two weeks’ notice.  Kurt determined that he would spend the rest of his life helping other people get to know the God who had just saved him. He felt that the best use of his life would be to help people make it to Heaven and avoid hell. Kurt thought working in the institutional church system would be the best place to do that, so that is where he began working in ministry.  In October 1987, Kurt became employed at a large church in Menasha, WI, from the same denomination in which he had been raised.  It was in this church that he met Carrie, his wife.  She had been raised in this church but had never been exposed to the fact that she needed to be born-again to be saved.  

In John 3, Jesus said that no one can see the Kingdom of God unless they are born again.  Carrie had found herself in a place of loneliness after she graduated high school.  Most of her friends had gone off to college, and she was unsure of what to do with the rest of her life.  She began helping Kurt with the youth ministry program at that church. Around that same time, she began attending a Bible study early in the morning with other youth ministers and born again believers from the community.  In the spring of 1989, Carrie recognized that these other people had something she did not have.  They had a saving relationship with God, but she only had a relationship with her church and religion.  Carrie is a very relational person, so once she realized that following Christ was about a real relationship with a real person, it took no convincing for her to surrender her life to the lordship of Jesus Christ and become born-again.

After Kurt’s time as youth minister in that congregation came to a close, Carrie went through the same youth ministry training program that Kurt had gone through and served for two years as the youth minister in her home church.  By the end of her two-year term, the Lord had blessed Kurt and Carrie with their first of five sons.  About a year after that, they received an invitation to interview at another church of the same denomination in Des Moines, Iowa.  This time, Kurt’s job title was ministry assistant with a concentration in youth–basically being the assistant pastor and youth pastor, but without the ordination.  Kurt and Carrie accepted the position in Des Moines IA in the 1990s and spent 3 years serving in that position.  It was during this time in Des Moines that the Lord began to show Kurt and Carrie that simpler expressions of church can be more effective in making disciples and finishing the great commission.  It was also during this time that they began to think they should consider planting a church of their own.  

About 16 years later, after working odd jobs, doing construction work, and working as a salesman in the church world, Kurt was wondering if he was supposed to plant a church after all.  Kneeling in prayer next to a fire one chilly May morning in 2012, seeking answers from the Lord about this vision to plant a church.  Kurt said, “Lord, if you want me to plant a church, what are you waiting for?  Is there something I still lack?  Is there one more book to read or conference to attend?”  The Lord spoke back to Kurt that morning and said something that shocked him.  The Lord said, “I never told anyone to plant a church.  I told you to make disciples.  I also said, ‘I will build my church.’  Let’s keep that clear.”  It was as if the Lord was saying, “You do your job, and I’ll do mine.  And stop expecting me to do your job while you try to do mine.”  Kurt came to realize that it’s not his job to plant a church or multiply churches, but it is his job to simply make disciples, and the Lord will handle the business of making church out of the disciples that are produced. 

It took Kurt a couple of weeks to submit to this word from the Lord, but when he did, everything in his life began to change.  Kurt said, “OK Lord, if you just want me to make disciples, then show me how, where, when, and with whom, and I will do it.”  After praying that, everything in Kurt’s life began to change. Kurt began receiving emails about something called Disciple-Making Movements that were multiplying genuine disciples around the world, and he knew this was an answer to that prayer.  He connected with these folks, went through their training, and all the pieces of the puzzle fell into place in his mind.  After that, Kurt began to receive miraculous invitations to train leaders in Disciple-Making Movements around the world.  And the funding effortlessly materialized for the expenses that came along with these invitations so they knew it was the Lord.  So, in 2013, Kurt began traveling the world, teaching and training people in what the Lord had taught him about Disciple-Making Movements as the original design of the New Testament church.  The training he does produces networks of obedient, reproducing disciples that continue to multiply after he leaves.

As of 2025, more than 20,000 churches have been planted in multiple countries around the world and hundreds of thousands of people have become true, genuine, obedient, reproducing disciples of Jesus Christ.  These disciples continue to multiply to this day.  There is a passion in the hearts of these disciples to reach the unreached and disciple the lost.  Miracles and healings are commonplace; baptisms are happening on an almost daily basis.  In these networks, there are no passive spectators. In fact, it looks a lot like a continuation of the Book of Acts.  Everyone is a disciple who makes disciples and every group of disciples naturally becomes a simple, New Testament church.  These churches continue to multiply, because the members are genuine  disciples who make disciples.  As they make more disciples in new households and communities, we see new, simple churches continually emerge.   

If this sounds like the spiritual experience and expression that you have been looking for, then you’ve come to the right place.  It is time to disciple America!  Will you join us!? All you need to do is to become a disciple who makes disciples.  It’s the most rewarding way to live.