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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A Reading Life #6
Have you seen the current sci-fi movie Hail Mary? The movie is based on the book by Andy Weir. Wier is a celebrated contemporary author, but one writer set the gold standard of science fiction in the 1950s and 1960s. His name was Ray Bradbury and one of his books changed my life. Survey any…
A Reading Life #5
It cannot be that people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading… Whether you like it or not, read and pray daily! It is your life; there is no other way; else you will be a trifler all your days. John Wesley Have you ever had one line from a book spark…
A Reading Life #4
A little library, growing every year is an honorable part of a person’s history. It is one’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury. Henry Ward Beecher I was a zealous and wide-eyed believer in 1970. Like many people in their early twenties, fresh from a conversion experience, I was looking for risk…
What are people saying?
Cedric Brown
Regional Leader, Navigator Church MinistriesI first used The Ways of the Alongsider ten years ago. I started out with two leaders who have since grown into the ministry. Both men have told me that The Ways of the Alongsider gave them a vision to make disciples who make disciples. By far it is the best on the market for…
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Rev. Eric Waters
Sr. Pastor, St. John Lutheran ChurchI’m excited about what God is doing through our partnership with Bill and The Navigators to build a disciplemaking church. We started small with a Discipleship Leadership Team, whom I led through The Ways of the Alongsider. Last September, each person on that team applied what they learned from the Alongsider by leading a discipleship…
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Preorder Bill's Newest Book!
The Ways of the Leader
“This book is a gift to the church!” said Pastor Steve. Check out my latest book — Holding the Word: Five Ways to Encounter God through the Scriptures. Check out the information page on this website. You can order at Navpress.org or on Amazon.