Author
I write to encourage and equip everyday Christians to make disciples and live on mission where they live, work, or play.
Teacher
I help churches and ministries build disciplemaking cultures that moves disciplemaking from the margins to the mainstream.
Coach
I come alongside everyday leaders helping them live fruitful and faithful lives through a life and ministry plan.
Check out Bill's Newest Book!
Check out my newest book with NavPress — Holding the Word: Five Ways to Encounter God in the Scriptures. Check out the information page on this website. You can order at Navpress.org or on Amazon.
Bill Mowry
Author • Teacher • Coach
The alongsider world is Jesus’s world, a place where disciples are developed in relational, intentional, and biblical ways. The alongsider world is wherever everyday Christians live, work, play, or worship.
In the alongsider world, everyday Christians walk next to friends helping them do a few simple lifestyle practices -- focus on Jesus, engage with the Scriptures, encourage accountability, application, affirmation, and live on mission.
I’m Bill Mowry and I’m a practitioner in the alongsider world. I live in Columbus, Ohio with my wife Peggy and our dog Ginger. We serve with The Navigators Church ministries, helping churches around the world multiply disciples through disciplemaking cultures. My contribution to Jesus’s alongsider world is through writing, teaching, and coaching.
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Is Dinner Ready?
The answer to this question may surprise you. What was one of Jesus’ strategies for evangelism? He did it over dinner. “The primary venue for evangelism in Jesus’ life was the meal,” writes Eugene Peterson. Why meals? Meals are natural and relational places for insiders to begin faith conversations. Jesu set the example by regularly…
The Master Conversationalist
Jesus was a master conversationalist. Whether you were rich or poor, male or female, a Roman Centurion or a Jewish Pharisee, Jesus talked with you. Insiders follow the way of Jesus, becoming masters at starting faith conversations. Conversations are one of the great pleasures of life. The dictionary defines conversation as “good talk practiced as…
Living the Margined Life
As we sat on my deck talking, Jim’s comment caught my attention: “What’s really important to me is to live a margined life.” The term puzzled me. “What’s a margined life?” I asked. “A margined life is having enough margin in my schedule to be available for people when they’re available. I want people to…
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Rev. Malcom Davis
Senior Pastor, Cental College Presbyterian ChurchBill’s gifting is not only in helping leaders to understand the necessity and potential of creating a discipleship culture in the local church, it is a life coach – discipling leaders to greater faithfulness and fruitfulness in their calling as Christ followers. With Bill’s partnership, I am experiencing renewed passion for the work of the…
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Bryce Kurfees
Financial PlannerI love Bill’s statement that “most of disciplemaking is sticking with people until they get it.” Bill lives the ways of an alongsider, sticking with people like me, applying the love described in 1 Corinthians 13. Many of us in the Christian life have never experienced an alongsider in our lives. Sometimes we’ve been hurt…
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Preorder Bill's Newest Book!
The Ways of the Leader
Coming in April, 2025. My latest book with Navpress — Holding the Word. Check out the information page on this website. You can pre-order at Navpress.org or on Amazon.