Discover Freedom International

Your church is full of people
who aren't free.

They know the Scriptures. They show up every Sunday. And they've been carrying the same bondage for decades.
Freedom changes that, for good.

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13
Weeks to Transformation
500+
At First Brazil Conference
3
Continents Active
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Leaders to Launch

The Reality No One Talks About

Faithful people.
Hidden bondage.

Millions of people sit in churches every week, committed, sincere, devoted, yet still bound by fear, rejection, shame, unforgiveness, and wounds they've never been able to name, let alone heal.

"People who have been in the Christian faith for years are inspired and ignited by Freedom, discovering more insight into the heart of God they never found anywhere else."

— Don & Cathy Karpinen, Founding Pastors, Victory Church, Boca Raton, FL

The church has the Gospel. Most churches don't have the structured, Spirit-filled tools to walk people from a moment of salvation into a life of sustained freedom. Freedom provides exactly that.

They've been in church for decades and still haven't experienced the breakthrough they desperately need.

Most discipleship programs teach information. Freedom goes to the root of the spiritual, emotional, and relational wounds keeping people bound.

Generational cycles don't break on their own. They need a catalyst. Freedom is that catalyst, and it works in any church, regardless of size or budget.

Free people free people. When transformation begins in your church, it spreads into families, communities, and beyond.

"Free people, free people. When one person walks free, the ripple effect in their family, community, and congregation is immeasurable."

— Amye M. Still, Founder & CEO

Explore the Model

The Program

What is Freedom?

A powerful 13-week ministry program, 12 weeks of small group curriculum paired with a 2-day Freedom Conference, designed to help your congregation break free from their past, discover their identity in Christ, and operate in their God-given authority.

The Six Pillars of the Curriculum

01
Living in the Tree of Life
God's heart is for His people to know Him personally, not pursue dead religion. A simple but powerful perspective shift that changes everything.
02
Walking in the Spirit
Principles of spiritual order and how feeding your spirit over your flesh is the key to the Spirit-led life the Bible promises.
03
Surrendering to Jesus
Learning to live forgiven, forgive others, receive His blessings, and grow in Kingdom purpose through radical surrender.
04
Speaking Words of Life
Words carry weight. Aligning your words with God's Word breaks the enemy's hold and transforms relationships and environments.
05
Becoming a Vessel God Can Use
Standing in the authority of Jesus to overcome sin and the enemy's schemes and stepping fully into the purpose God designed for your life.
06
Living as a Worshipper
We all worship something. Freedom teaches how to daily direct your worship to God and let it shape everything you do and who you become.

The Culmination

The Freedom Conference

Every semester ends with a powerful 2-day Freedom Conference, an experiential breakthrough event where participants encounter freedom from the bondages that have held them back for years. This is where decades of captivity are broken through the power of the Holy Spirit.

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The 13-Week Journey

Weeks 1–12: Weekly Freedom Groups gather to work through the curriculum together, building community, transparency, and breakthrough.

Week 13: The Freedom Conference, a 2-day transformative event that seals the journey and releases participants into lasting freedom.

After Freedom: A Life After Freedom plan supports continued growth and ensures transformation takes root and holds.

How to Get Started

The Freedom Intensive

You don't need to figure this out alone. The Freedom Intensive is DFI's signature church-equipping experience that provides everything your leaders need to launch and sustain a thriving Freedom Ministry at your church.

01

Freedom Groups Blueprint

The Freedom Groups Blueprint is where your leaders are equipped from the inside out. They walk away with both a transformed understanding of what Freedom is and a hands-on ministry model for building it, including small group structure, leadership pipeline, and dedicated prayer team development. No prior experience required.

02

Leader Conference Experience

Your leaders don't just learn about the Freedom Conference. They experience it. A full, immersive Freedom Conference designed specifically for ministry leaders, so they leave transformed and ready to lead.

03

Freedom Conference Experience

Participants gather for a powerful 2-day Freedom Conference that addresses the strongholds that are holding them back. Through Spirit-led ministry, prayer, and breakthrough moments, they encounter freedom from fear, rejection, shame, unforgiveness, and more. This is where the 13-week journey culminates into lasting transformation.

04

Freedom Conference Blueprint

A step-by-step plan for hosting a Freedom Conference at your own church.

  • Communication plan and registration
  • Logistics and team management
  • Production, worship and creative team
  • Life After Freedom plan

The Freedom Intensive is designed for four leaders from your church, two men and two women. By the end, they are fully equipped to lead Freedom Groups and host a Freedom Conference at your church. No prior experience required. DFI walks alongside you every step of the way.

Church Equity Model: Freedom is for every church, not just well-resourced ones. DFI's tiered access model, including scholarship support for under-resourced congregations, ensures that budget is never the barrier between a church and transformation.

Real Churches. Real Results.

What happens when Freedom comes to a church.

"The Freedom program has brought dynamic change to our church. It has been such a blessing to see the healing and freedom brought to our church family and the many lives transformed. Our church has been growing rapidly — not only in overall members, but more importantly in the number of members who are passionately seeking to draw close to the Holy Spirit."

Ben and Melissa Pierce

Ben & Melissa Pierce

Lead Pastors — Generation Church, Jupiter, FL

"Freedom provides both mature and newer believers an opportunity to glean revelation together. Through Freedom, people have incredible 'aha' moments — transformational moments experiencing the Holy Spirit's breakthrough and power. Freedom equips churches to live as people who are loved by God, saved by His grace, and empowered by His Spirit."

Don and Kathy Karpinen

Don & Cathy Karpinen

Founding Pastors — Victory Church, Boca Raton, FL

24
Leaders enrolled
2
Semesters later
500+
Conference attendees

A single church in Brazil started with 24 leaders in the Freedom curriculum. Two semesters later, they were running a thriving Freedom Ministry and hosted a Freedom Conference with over 500 attendees. The ministry continues to this day. This is the model. It works.

The Impact on Your Congregation

What Freedom does for a church.

GROW

Rapid spiritual growth

Churches consistently report deeper commitment to Scripture, ignited passion for the Holy Spirit, and members who move from passive attendance to active, Spirit-led discipleship.

HEAL

Deep community and healing

People who have sat next to each other for years experience breakthrough together, creating bonds that go far beyond Sunday morning and transforming church culture from within.

REACH

Expanded reach and attendance

Free people tell others. Freedom naturally draws in family members, friends, and community members who would never otherwise step through a church door because they see the change.

LEAD

Equipped, empowered leaders

Your leaders go through the Freedom Intensive having experienced their own breakthrough. They return changed, equipped, and burning with vision to see their congregation walk in the same freedom.

BREAK

Generational cycles broken

When parents walk free, children grow up in a different atmosphere. Freedom doesn't just change individuals. It changes family lines, and those changes echo for generations.

BUILD

A sustainable ministry model

Freedom is built to grow. As your leaders are equipped and your congregation walks in greater freedom, the ministry deepens and the investment you made in year one multiplies for years to come.

Amye M. Still, Founder and CEO of Discover Freedom International

Meet the Founder

Amye M. Still

Amye is a passionate lover of Jesus, an international speaker, podcaster, and the author of ABIDE: Breaking the Cycle of Rush in a Culture of Busy. But behind the warmth and the stories is one of the most compelling testimonies of personal transformation in modern ministry.

"Abiding in Christ is not stillness for the sake of stillness. It is the most active, intentional, world-changing thing you will ever do."

— Amye M. Still, Founder & CEO

Amye has preached the Gospel on national and international stages. Her life message is singular and urgent: helping people enter deep intimacy with their Heavenly Father, walk into the freedom of knowing their identity in Christ, and operate in their authority through Him.

International speaker — national and global stages
Author: ABIDE: Breaking the Cycle of Rush in a Culture of Busy
Host: The Freedom Story Podcast
Founder & CEO, Discover Freedom International
Personal recipient of Freedom curriculum transformation

The DFI Model

The Holistic Discipleship Model

Most discipleship programs address one or two dimensions of a person's life. The DFI model addresses the whole person because lasting transformation requires more than a sermon series. It requires the Holy Spirit working through every layer of a person's life.

The Holistic Discipleship Model gives your church a framework to assess where your people are truly being discipled and where the gaps are quietly costing them. It identifies six areas of life where people need discipleship, and it resources your church with curricula and practical implementation guides so you can begin building a discipleship ministry that goes the full distance with your people.

01

Spiritual

Foundations of the faith, inner healing, deliverance, identity in Christ, spiritual authority, and freedom from bondage. The foundation everything else is built on.

02

Mental & Emotional

Renewing the mind, emotional health, and breaking the destructive thought patterns that keep people from walking out what they believe.

03

Relational

Marriage, family, community, and healing the relational wounds that quietly fracture a congregation from the inside out.

04

Physical

Stewardship of the body as God's temple, equipping your people to care for what He has entrusted to them from a Kingdom perspective.

05

Financial

Biblical stewardship, breaking poverty mindsets, generosity, and helping your people move from scarcity thinking into Kingdom faithfulness.

06

Vocational

Purpose, calling, and gifts. Helping your people understand who God made them and how to live it out, not just on Sunday but in every room they walk into.

A framework built for discipling the whole person.

DFI is building a comprehensive discipleship library, curating and publishing Kingdom-focused curricula for each of these six areas, available to every DFI-connected church worldwide.

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The Freedom Story Podcast

The Freedom Story Podcast

Hosted by Amye M. Still and Donna Petrina, The Freedom Story Podcast brings the message of DFI's mission to life, stories of transformation, conversations with ministry leaders, and Spirit-led teaching on what it means to walk in lasting freedom.

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Invest in Eternal Return.

Freedom changes individuals. Individuals change families. Families change churches. Churches change communities. Communities change nations. When you invest in DFI, you are not funding a local program, you are releasing freedom into the nations, and that return is eternal.

The E-ROI — Eternal Return on Investment

Every gift to DFI carries a return that no portfolio can measure. We call it the E-ROI, the Eternal Return on Investment. It cascades across six levels, each one multiplying the last:

Individual
Decades of bondage broken. Identity in Christ restored. Purpose unlocked. One life, radically and permanently changed.
Family
Generational cycles stop. A family line is permanently altered. Children grow up in freedom instead of the wounds carried before them.
Church
Free people fill a congregation with healing, passion, and deep spiritual growth that transforms the entire culture of the church.
Community
Free churches go into their communities with healing instead of hurt, and purpose instead of confusion.
Nations
Every investment cascades into nations. The DFI Model is proven on 3 continents and expanding.
Eternity
Every soul freed, every marriage restored, every child raised in freedom. These are the eternal dividends no portfolio manager can offer.
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Your congregation is ready.

Are you ready to ignite
Freedom in your church?

It starts with four leaders. It ends with a congregation that is genuinely, deeply, lastingly free. Let's talk about bringing Freedom to your church.

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