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The Paul and Timothy mentoring model
What Paul and Timothy show us about biblical mentoring, and the four steps we use to help each Timothy become a Paul to someone else.
Disciple-making in India
Making disciples who make more disciples
We train and mentor local believers across India so they can share the gospel, disciple others, and help healthy churches multiply in their own communities.
Who we are
Jesus is our model. The Bible is our basis.
Paul and Chella Newton lead Mentoring Models Foundation. The ministry grew out of one conviction, drawn from 2 Timothy 2:2: God’s Word should be entrusted to faithful people who will pass it on to others.
So Paul and Chella don’t build the work around themselves. They walk alongside local disciple-makers, emerging leaders, and churches, and equip believers to disciple, lead, serve, and multiply where they live, in ways that are biblical, simple, and reproducible.
How the work multiplies
Not addition. Multiplication.
The work of Mentoring Models doesn’t stop with the first person it reaches. We equip people who will pass on what they receive.
A believer learns to teach someone else. A local worker disciples people in their own community. A fellowship matures and sends others into new places. The pattern is Paul and Timothy: each Timothy becomes a Paul to someone else.
What we do
Train. Mentor. Multiply.
We keep the focus on Scripture, obedience, local leadership, and multiplication, so the work can pass from one believer to the next and from one church to another.
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Train
Online and offline training, including Great Commission Training, equips believers to live and share the gospel with obedience. Simple, biblical, reproducible.
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Mentor
A Paul walks with a Timothy in life, not in a classroom: model it, assist them, watch them do it, then leave them to lead.
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Multiply
We raise disciple-makers who reproduce, forming multiplying fellowships and healthy churches.
From the field
Stories and articles
News from the work in India, and articles on how we make disciples.
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Disciple-making movements in India
What disciple-making movements are, the patterns they share, and why we pray and work toward them in India, one household and one simple church at a time.
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Field update
A new church gathering place is dedicated
On September 13, 2026, believers dedicated a new church gathering place. Thank you for praying and standing with them. Some construction work remains.
From the field
This has revived my spiritual life. I have learnt to share My story and God's story for the first time.
- Make disciples
- Train leaders
- Plant churches