Encounter
Help people understand their encounters with God.
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Omar, have you ever had a dream about Jesus?” I watched as the friend sitting in our living room leaned forward and his eyes brightened. “Yes,” he answered, “I have.” My husband followed up with a question- “what did Jesus say to you in the dream, Omar?” His answer reminded me of how gentle the Father is and how actively he pursues all people. “He asked if I would follow him.”
After an encounter with Jesus through a dream, healing, an answered prayer, or even a confusing spiritual experience, people often struggle to make sense of what just happened. They don’t need to struggle alone.
WithYou pathways provide space for reflection, dialogue, and prayer specific to walking with individuals who have questions. They leave room for people to process in between communication, moving at the speed of the Holy Spirit at work within them.
This page includes pathways to connect with people based on the encounter they have experienced.
This includes dreams, healing, sickness, fear, or major life moments. Simple steps can help someone discover Jesus while the moment is fresh.
Explore
Give people room to explore their questions about Jesus.
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Two friends were going for a walk when one turned to the other and asked a sincere question. “You have experienced a lot of grief in your life this year, but still, you have joy. I don’t understand. Why?” The friend in question took a breath and responded with love and courage: “It’s because of Jesus. I don’t think I could have this kind of joy without him. I know that it is a gift.”
Sometimes someone is curious about Jesus, the Bible, prayer, church, or something they have seen in a Christian friend, a film, a song, or a book.
Curiosity is a beautiful starting place to explore the ‘more’ Jesus has for someone. Questions, fears, and even cautious interest can lead to authentic conversation and discipleship opportunities.
WithYou provides tools for exploration.
This page can be a helpful space to gather questions and topics for someone exploring Christianity. It is a tool for someone discovering Jesus with others, but at a pace that works for them.
From there, they can start a conversation without giving away too much too soon.
Unverified chat, QR codes, invitation-only contact, and no-phone-number connection make it easy to ask a question and begin naturally, including across distance or from overseas.
Believe
Help people take a clear step of response.
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Edita knew that God was calling her to be a light in her work community in Lithuania, but she struggled with fear. She didn’t have all the answers, she was a younger believer and frankly, she didn’t believe God could use her. A friend invited Edita to walkthrough a pathway about identity. As they walked through Scripture, discussed her fears, and responded to the prayer prompts on the app, Edita began to comprehend how deep God’s love was for her. Suddenly she felt less afraid of what others thought of her and she was surprised at how easily she was talking about God with her colleagues. Jesus’ love was bursting out of her alongside his joy and other fruit of the Spirit.
There comes a point when questions and encounters with Jesus lead to moments of response.
Walking with someone who desires to take a next step can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t need to. Remember that Jesus is WITH YOU as much as he is WITH your friend.
The pathways in this stage include simple reminders of truths Jesus taught his disciples.
Scripture prompts, questions and steps of obedience are provided in these pathways to help guide your times together, whether online or in person.
They might include helping someone move toward faith, baptism, receiving the Holy Spirit, or another clear step of response.
The goal is to help someone respond clearly while staying connected to what God is already doing.
Belong
Help people find their place in a spiritual family.
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Nine women from around the world joined together to practice Advent using the WithYou app. Some of the women were connected into local churches while others lived in places of isolation. Each morning a prompt in the app gave the group a verse, a question to reflect on and a form of response. As prayers and conversation began in the chat thread, three of the women realized they were facing the exact same struggles while living thousands of miles apart. Their prayers for one another were beautiful and encouraged one another that they were not alone.
Belonging is a key part of what it means to be a follower of Jesus.
When you say ‘yes’ to Him, you say yes to a family. You may look, feel, act, and live completely different lives, but there is a unity in belonging to the family of God.
When someone takes a step of faith to believe in Jesus, they may still struggle to see how and where they belong.
People need places to share life together. This might look like joining a small group, a house church or, for those living in more challenging places, online spaces of connection.
Groups enable followers of Jesus to fellowship, pray for one another, eat together, and share life.
Group chat creates a visible center for fellowship, prayer, meals, care, and shared life. Weekly pathways with a daily rhythm can keep that flow of practices moving between meetings instead of leaving everything to one gathering.
Mature
Help people grow through the real issues in front of them.
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Peter had been a Christian for many years, but struggled to walk in peaceful relationships with his family. He was frustrated by his outbursts towards his wife and kids, feeling like he should know better. Peter reached out to a friend who lived in a different country than him. He asked for prayer, and the two friends ended up spending several weeks walking through issues of forgiveness and healing using a pathway on the app. Peter felt seen and heard. He knew that Jesus was with him, but he benefited from having a friend take the time to walk through his struggles together.
Saying yes to following Jesus does not mean that life becomes easier.
In many cases it highlights our need for Jesus and counters a cultural love for self-sufficiency. Maturing in faith looks like seeking to respond to life’s ups and downs the way Jesus would and modelling this to one another.
Pathways for this stage focus on building a foundation to address real life issues one at a time.
Realities like grief, fear, family conflict, screen time, parenting, forgiveness, or other personal struggles are examples.
A pathway can hold the scope of one issue and give the conversation a shape that feels manageable, personal, and grounded in real life.
Instead of trying to solve everything at once, people can work through one need clearly, honestly, and with practical next steps.
Abide
Help people live from what God is forming in them.
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Mike was a university student, heavily involved in campus ministries and Christian clubs. He was popular, extraverted, and enjoying what he thought was a fruitful season of life. One day, a friend challenged Mike to ask Jesus how He saw the campus. He introduced Mike to a pathway on prayer walking, which involved blessing the people and streets of his campus and listening to the Holy Spirit. It didn’t take long for Mike to feel a stirring towards caring for the lost on campus. He realized that all his efforts were focused on other Christians, and he hadn’t given much thought towards how he and his friends might love those who didn’t know Jesus yet. Slowly Mike began inviting friends to listen to Jesus with him and take steps of obedience.
Jesus modelled throughout Scripture the need to be in constant communion with the Father.
Listening, and responding. As followers of Jesus who are learning what it means to abide, the Holy Spirit is able to open new doors in our hearts to the things on his own—caring for the lost, serving others, and going out in obedience.
Pathways in this stage encourage individuals and groups to spend time in God’s presence.
They help people ask questions, seek the things of God’s heart, and listen to what he says.
Practicing this as a community is foundational.
Shared rhythms of listening and responding help what God is forming in one person become something a group can carry together.
Host
Help people move from experiencing to inviting.
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Manu wanted to invite her co-workers over, but she consistently felt ill-equipped, despite being a Christian for many years. “What if they ask questions I don’t have the answers to? What if it’s awkward or we have nothing to talk about?” Before testing out a group dinner at her apartment, Manu downloaded a pathway that had questions to get to know people’s stories. She was surprised by how much her new friends opened up to her about their lives and she saw a new side of them that she now knew how to pray for.
Transformation leads to multiplication.
As individuals and communities experience the love of God, Jesus invites them to see that love multiplied in the lives of others—and it begins by simply extending the invitation.
In this stage, believers practice hospitality by opening their homes and sharing the hope they’ve found in Christ.
You disciple who you eat with. Asking friends to join you for a meal is one form of discipling others, but people often feel stuck at this stage because of fear or a lack of knowing what to do.
A growing library of pathways supports this step.
It offers simple guidance on how to host neighbours and friends, how to pray in advance, and how to ask meaningful questions, helping conversations remain clear, intentional, and Spirit-led.
Partner
Help people move from consuming to carrying forward.
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A group of small group leaders realized that they seldom did anything with the sermons they heard each week at church. They decided that they wanted to stop listening to sermons and begin living them out, inviting their small groups to join them. On one occasion a sermon on prayer inspired the group to take their community groups out prayer walking in their neighbourhoods. After a trial run together, they challenged each other to go out again, this time inviting their friends and family to do the same. For those who weren’t sure how to do a prayer walk, a guided pathway was forwarded around so everyone had suggested steps to follow.
Shared moments are meant to be carried forward.
When a sermon is preached or an event takes place, what resonates in the room can quickly fade without a simple way to follow up—but growth happens when people continue walking it out together.
In this stage, believers partner to carry what they’ve received into everyday life.
Pages and pathways keep teaching, events, and conversations in one place, making it easy to reconnect, take next steps, and engage together—whether in groups, one-to-one, or simple follow-up.
The message doesn’t end when the room empties.
It continues to grow through shared responsibility and intentional connection.
Release
Help people go and do the same for others.
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My husband and I have been discipling others for years. But so often what we feel to pass on to them stops at them. We wondered at how multiplication was supposed to happen. As we leaned into the idea of pathways, we began to realize that each person we discipled had the God-given task of walking with someone else, right away. They just needed to be coached and given guidance to help them when they got stuck. Using pathways to do this became so important because we knew that the practices we shared with them regarding prayer, reading Scripture, loving our neighbours etc., was simplified into small steps and accessible for them to share with their friends.
Sometimes someone has walked this whole journey and finds themselves ready to begin again with someone new.
It’s a way of life they can now offer to others.
The rhythms, tools, and experiences that shaped them become something they can naturally pass on.
There’s no pressure to have it all figured out or to be someone exceptional—just a willingness to walk with others the same way they were walked with.
And they don’t do it alone.
Conversations can continue, encouragement can flow, and relationships can grow—even across distance or language. What began in them doesn’t stop with them—it continues, reaching others, one life at a time.