Contact: Matt Green, Pioneers-USA, 321-231-5624

ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 3, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ -- Imagine if following Jesus cost you your home, your family, your job, your life. What would it take to reach you with the gospel?

MULTIPLY, a new web video series from Pioneers-USA, explores these questions from the perspective of church planters serving in the Muslim world.

In the first episode of MULTIPLY, viewers journey to a city in Indonesia where the costs of following Jesus are high. In the face of persecution, poverty and spiritual warfare, God is drawing Muslims to himself and building his church through the sacrifice and partnership of Western church planters and Indonesian believers.

While starting a church in the United States may be as simple as renting a school auditorium and broadcasting a video feed to a portable screen, in the Muslim world it looks much different.

"The house churches we're planting are simple, not liturgical," notes Michael [not his real name] a Pioneers church-planter serving in Indonesia. "We praise God, we pray, we share testimonies. We read one story from the Bible and repeat it together."

This organic model of ministry is easily reproduced and allows new believers to grow in their faith as they look to scripture -- not the western missionary -- for guidance and support.

Future MULTIPLY videos will explore church planting among Muslims in Central Africa, the Middle East and immigrant communities living in Western countries -- all with the goal of stimulating Christians to consider their biblical responsibility to bring the good news to Muslims, whether next door or on the other side of the world.

Pioneers is an evangelical mission movement with 2,400 international members serving on 200 church-planting teams in 95 countries among 130 people groups in 70 languages. For more information and to find out how you can get involved, visit pioneers.org/multiply.