You've said discipleship is a priority. Your church has said it. The research says nearly every pastor says it.
Here's the harder question. Point to the real, measured pathway in your church right now — the one where you could show someone the numbers, the movement, who got discipled this year and how you know it happened. For most pastors, that pathway doesn't exist yet.
That gap has a name: Priority Without a Plan.
Lifeway Research surveyed 2,620 U.S. Protestant pastors in September 2024. Fifty-two percent reported having an intentional discipleship plan. Only 8% said they were extremely satisfied with discipleship in their church. Only 5%, one in twenty, said they had a real way to measure it.
Having a plan is not the same as having a plan that works. Quietly, in churches everywhere, that gap is where discipleship efforts fade out.
This is a system that ran weekly inside Reyes Castillo's own congregation starting June 2026, every week's content revised against real participant response before it was finalized, now being licensed to a small founding group of churches ready to close that gap for good.
If discipleship is already a priority in your church, you're halfway there. This is the plan.
The Problem
The Problem With Having a Plan That Doesn't Work
That gap has a name: Priority Without a Plan. The absence isn't priority, and it isn't effort. What's missing is a plan that holds under real conditions, with real people, in a real room.
A vision that isn't written plainly enough to run with is still just a hope.
Most pastors feel that gap without being able to name it, and it feeds three beliefs that make it worse.
“If I find the right curriculum, transformation will follow.”
A curriculum is a container. Without trained facilitators and a way to measure what's happening, the container stays mostly empty — ninety-six percent of churches run small groups, and thirty-eight percent of their people never show up to one.
“My church is too small or too different for a packaged system to work.”
This one sounds humble. The research shows the real bottleneck is leader capacity and a clear plan, not church size. Size is a reason to get the system right, not a reason to skip it.
“If I use someone else's curriculum, I'm not doing my job.”
This is the one nobody says out loud. Stewarding a system someone else spent years testing in a live room is not a lesser calling.
Underneath all three sits something quieter: a pastor carrying a congregation's spiritual health alone, measuring himself against what other churches seem to be building, wondering privately whether any of it is actually working. That pattern is documented, and it isn't a character flaw. It's what happens when the gap between priority and plan goes unnamed for long enough.
The Offer
Why Circle of Five Exists
Make disciples. Teach them to observe. A process with a shape, not a feeling to chase.
Circle of Five is a complete 13-week discipleship system across four phases — Awaken, Align, Arm, Advance — with every lesson, student guide, slide deck, and facilitator training tool already built. You run what's already done.
What sets it apart: it was taught live, weekly, inside a real congregation before it was ever offered to yours. Every week was revised against what actually happened in the room, real participants and real friction addressed before you ever see it.
You're licensing a system that already worked, run by your own people, indefinitely, for one price.
What's Included
Everything You Need to Run It, Measure It, and Multiply It
Full 13-Week Teaching Curriculum
Awaken → Align → Arm → Advance. A complete four-phase arc: a beginning, a progression, and an end.
13 Student Guides
One per week, in the hands of every participant.
13 Slide Decks
Markdown source plus rendered HTML. Ready to present from session one.
13 Declaration Cards
Portable identity anchors that reinforce what each week establishes.
13 Mini Learnings
Short reinforcements that extend the lesson between sessions.
Full Facilitator Training Program
The Level 2 train-the-trainer session. Your volunteers are trained before they're in the room.
Leader Application & Screening System
A structured way to identify and vet the right people first.
Leader Onboarding Checklist
Application through launch, so nothing falls through the gap.
Small Groups Management System
Group types, health assessment, a troubleshooting guide.
Church-Wide Rollout Plan
Foundation → Launch → Multiplication → Culture, already built.
4-Week Launch Sermon Series
The real series that introduces the track and builds momentum before week one.
Full Promo Materials Package
Video script, social graphics, email sequences, print materials.
The False Identity Diagnostic
A standalone lead-magnet tool to surface who's ready.
Branding Assets
For running the system inside your own church walls.
The Circle of Five Platform
A real, working web application built for running this track: a leader dashboard and a member-side experience your students actually use.
Weekly-Gated Cohort Materials
Each week's guide, deck, and tools unlock as you advance the cohort, keeping every session in step with the room.
Real Attendance & Progress Tracking
Logged numbers on who showed up, who's engaging, and where the cohort stands, updated automatically as you lead.
A Testimony Feed
A safe, cohort-visible place for participants to share what God is doing, consent-gated and retractable, built for a real church setting.
One license. One purchase. Curriculum and platform both, run indefinitely, with your own people.
Why It's Different
Why This Isn't Like Anything Else On the Market
Most discipleship curriculum was built for a general audience, then rebranded with a church's name on the cover. A name swap, not a proven process built and run inside a real congregation before it reached a pastor's desk.
Circle of Five is the reverse of that. It was built and proven live, week by week, inside a real church, revised against what actually happened in the room, before your church ever sees it.
It closes the two specific gaps the research shows breaks most discipleship plans: unclear communication and no measurement. Every piece is fully built, so nothing gets improvised, and the platform itself tracks attendance and progress automatically as you lead.
Facilitator training exists in this system because the pattern is biblical before it's practical — what's entrusted to your leaders is meant to reach the leaders they train next.
Proof
Why You Can Trust This System
Reyes Castillo has spent more than 20 years in ministry. He didn't write Circle of Five for a hypothetical church. He built it inside his own congregation, where he had to live with the results every Sunday.
All 13 weeks were taught live, watched in real time, and revised against what actually landed in the room before the next session began. That process has run continuously since June 2026. This is a system that has held up under real people, real schedules, and real pastoral accountability, not one that passed a whiteboard review.
Here's what's true going in: no other church holds a license yet. You would be among the first to run this at scale, in a congregation you didn't build, with leaders you have to develop rather than clone. That's a real fact, stated plainly, not a footnote to bury.
What's verified here:
20+ years in ministry
A live cohort, built inside Reyes's own church, revised weekly, running continuously since June 2026
Zero churches licensed yet — this is the founding wave, named honestly rather than hidden
No testimonial quotes used. Real ones exist, but they're consent-scoped to a different product and won't be reused here without a fresh, separate ask
Pricing
Your Investment
Consider what it costs your church to keep running discipleship on autopilot: more programs, volunteers quietly burning out, still no way to measure whether anyone is actually growing.
Circle of Five is a defined, measurable pathway, and it's a one-time license rather than a subscription that bills you every year. An entry-tier RightNow Media subscription runs $1,860+ a year for an open video library with no built-in pathway and no measurable outcomes. Circle of Five was built to do what that can't.
This price is reserved for the first 10 churches to license Circle of Five. Once the 10th founding church has licensed, the price returns to $1,997. Not a countdown timer or a fake date — a real cap, tied to how many churches this actually is right now.
This is a beta price, named honestly rather than hidden inside a generic "founding member" label. Your church would be among the first running Circle of Five as a licensed system outside the one it was built in, and what surfaces while you run it, questions, rough edges, anything that needs fixing, is exactly what gets built into the version every church after you will use. The lower price is the trade for that.
Every founding-member license is covered by a 30-day materials review guarantee: review the complete system for 30 days, and if it's not a fit for your church before you've started teaching it, it's a full refund.
Questions
Common Questions From Pastors Like You
A curriculum is a container, not a creed. What makes it orthodox is the framework around it — clear teaching, trained facilitators, and measurable outcomes, built on the mandate every church already holds: make disciples, teach them to observe, entrust it to faithful people who will teach others (Matthew 28:19-20; 2 Timothy 2:2). Before buying any curriculum, ask one question: can you show me this being taught live, right now, to real people? Not a sample lesson. Live.
The real bottleneck has never been church size or volunteer talent. It's whether your leaders have a clear plan and built-in training to execute it. Evaluate any curriculum by whether it hands your volunteers the tools to teach it confidently from day one, not by its table of contents.
The research shows the bottleneck is leader capacity and a clear plan, not church size. A system with facilitator training built in solves the real constraint regardless of your congregation's size, style, or denomination.
You could. If someone else can do 70% of the work as well as you could, that's stewardship. Ask how many weeks in your volunteers would be the ones telling you it wasn't working.
A workbook is a handout. It doesn't train your leaders, doesn't give you a system, and doesn't measure whether any of it is working. The $30 option looks cheaper until the hours spent making it work, and the volunteers lost when it doesn't, get counted too.
You have 30 days to review the complete system. If it isn't right for your church, and you haven't started teaching it yet, it's a full refund.
It's a beta price, not a promotional discount. Your church would be among the first running Circle of Five as a licensed system outside the one it was built in. What surfaces while you run it, including anything that needs fixing, gets built into the version every church after you will use. The lower price is the trade for that, stated plainly rather than left as a footnote.
Picture the next cohort your church runs eighteen months from now. The facilitator training you licensed this year has already produced a second leader, one your own congregation raised up, running a group of their own. Someone can finally answer the question that started this: is discipleship actually happening here. The answer is yes, and there's a way to show it.
That's what a plan does that a priority alone never could.
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