About This Project

Stronger Churches Begin in Circles

The local church is irreplaceable. But even the healthiest Sunday congregation face a quiet challenge — how do you move people from attending to belonging, from believing to becoming? How does a church actually produce Spirit-led disciples who carry their faith into every corner of their lives?

Circle Church exists to answer that question — not by replacing the structured church, but by strengthening it from the inside out. For over ten years, Colin and Melanie Zammit have been developing and field-testing the Circle model: a simple, small-group gathering built around Spirit-led questions drawn from Scripture.

Designed to sit alongside and support the local church, a Circle brings a handful of people together in a living room, around a kitchen table, at a coffee shop, in a park, or over a meal at a restaurant — wherever people already gather naturally — to go deeper together in discipleship, accountability, and prayer.

No seminary required. No building required. No budget required. Just a few people, an open Bible, and the Holy Spirit leading the conversation.

Proven in the Hardest Soil

For five of those ten years, Colin and Melanie served in a closed Middle Eastern context among Kurdish, Iranian, and Turkish communities — some of the least-reached peoples on earth, representing nearly 200 million people with fewer than one percent who follow Jesus.

In environments where formal church structures face serious legal and social restrictions, Circles became the connective tissue that held young believers together, rooted them in Scripture, and developed them into confident, Spirit-led disciples — many of whom went on to start Circles of their own.

Small. Reproducible. Low-profile. Host-led.

The Circle model thrived precisely where traditional structures could not go — and produced exactly the kind of deeply formed disciples that every church leader hopes for.

Strengthening the Western Church

Western churches face a different but equally real challenge. Attendance is declining. Community is thinning. Many believers engage their faith for an hour on Sunday and rarely again during the week.

The Circle model gives churches a practical small-group tool that develops real discipleship all throughout the week — turning congregations into communities and attenders into disciple-makers.

A Circle can launch on a weekend - In a living room. At a coffee shop. Around the kitchen table after dinner. In the park with a few friends from church.

The pastor doesn't need to lead it. The church doesn't need to fund it. It simply needs someone willing to gather a few people and ask good questions together.

Partnership and Impact

Circle Church partners with churches, small groups, and church planters in both Western and restricted-access contexts — providing training, resources, and ongoing support to help congregations multiply Spirit-led disciples from the inside out.

What Your Partnership Makes Possible

Your giving directly funds leader training resources in English, Kurdish, Farsi, and Turkish; practical discipleship tools designed to strengthen local churches in both open and restricted contexts; and the ongoing work of planting and nurturing new Circles around the world.

The church is stronger in a Circle. Come be a part of it.