Fall & Be Free partners with Liberty Church

Fall & Be Free has agreed to a partnership with Liberty Church (Dublin, GA) for the purposes of creating a process to help churches across the country enhance their spiritual formation and discipleship strategies.

Fall & Be Free launched in April 2025 to equip people for a lifetime of following Jesus. This stemmed from an observation that many confessing Christians believe in Jesus intellectually, while feeling disconnected from Him in daily life. These people have often not been taught how to truly follow Him. Fall & Be Free was established to address this issue.  

“When Ashley and I began Fall & Be Free, we had a series of meetings inviting potential donors to join us in this work,” said Jonathan Goode, Co-Founder of Fall & Be Free. “The people we met saw the need for deeper spiritual formation, they believed in us and our vision, and the vast majority quickly began giving financially to our new ministry. But one question began to arise so frequently that we could not ignore it. That question was some variation of can you help local churches get better at this?”

Liberty Church is a growing church in Dublin, GA – located along Interstate 16 between Macon and Savannah. It conservatively averages over 800 people on a Sunday morning and, for the last several months, has witnessed multiple baptisms and new people coming to faith in Jesus every single week. It has been exciting to witness God’s work at this church in recent months! In spite of their extraordinary growth, Liberty Church lacks a cohesive process to help these new believers and the existing mature believers alike take next steps in their faith.

“God is moving in some incredible ways at Liberty Church,” said Liberty Church’s Lead Pastor Nate Dooley. “People are getting saved and baptisms are happening all the time! But we need help equipping our people to take next steps once they get out of the water. Working with Fall & Be Free to improve our processes for people taking next steps following Jesus is a unique opportunity for our church that will hopefully benefit many other churches in years to come.”

Generally speaking, Fall & Be Free will be tasked with overseeing and developing a process for people to take next steps following Jesus as part of Liberty Church. More specifically, this includes:

  • A clear and effective process for helping people begin their faith journey with a local church

  • Better systems to “equip the saints for the work of ministry” (Ephesians 4:12) so that they move from spectators to active participants in the work of Jesus

  • Healthier and more consistent utilization of community groups

  • A track for long term development and formation for committed Christ followers

“Throughout the course of this partnership, Fall & Be Free will intentionally document and format the process being utilized as a blueprint for future church partnerships,” said Ashley Goode, Co-Founder of Fall & Be Free. “Our hope is that disciplined documentation and real time feedback will allow us to serve more churches with greater efficiency in the years to come.”

This partnership will conclude by June 2027 or when the stated goals of this agreement have been achieved – whichever comes first.

For more information on Liberty Church, visit www.lbcdublin.com.

About Fall & Be Free | Fall & Be Free exists to equip people to follow Jesus for a lifetime. Monthly gatherings, retreats/experiences, and discipleship cohorts are utilized to help people take next steps in their spiritual growth process. The day-to-day work of Fall & Be Free is presently led by Jonathan and Ashley Goode with oversight from a governing Board of Directors. Fall & Be Free is a registered non-profit organization.

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Frequently Asked Questions

If you have specific questions regarding this exciting partnership not addressed in these FAQs, please contact us for more information.

  • While Jonathan and Ashley will serve as an extension of the staff team, they will not technically be on staff at Liberty Church. Jonathan and Ashley are exclusively employed by Fall & Be Free.

  • They will work closely with all staff and leadership at the church while reporting directly to the Lead Pastor.

  • We certainly believe we can! This was a real consideration in our discernment process. We felt some margin and made some adjustments to make this work. The potential for long term impact of this opportunity is worth it to us.

  • While Liberty Church will be making monthly donations to Fall & Be Free, Jonathan and/or Ashley will not receive personal income from the church in any way. Their contributions, along with the contributions from our many donors, allow Jonathan and Ashley to take on projects like these as part of their full time work.

  • We are planning on posting regular updates on our Substack! You can click here to visit our Substack. If you subscribe with your email address, you’ll get all of our updates about this and other Fall & Be Free initiatives sent right to your inbox!

  • Church leaders talk to one another. If we are successful at our goals at Liberty Church, its size and reach creates the potential for many other church leaders to hear about it. But, ultimately, it is up to God to open those doors. We trust His leading.

  • Yes… but they all wanted full time staff as the solution. We are hyper focused on the mission of Fall & Be Free and working full time at a church was a non-starter for us. This offered us the best of both worlds and it further accomplishes the mission of Fall & Be Free.

  • This partnership will conclude by June 2027 or when the stated goals of this agreement have been achieved – whichever comes first.

  • We believe this gives us ample time to accomplish our goals. We also have some exciting goals for our ministry in 2027 that we hope to share later this year!

  • Liberty Church intends to hire a pastoral replacement to succeed Jonathan and Ashley in this role. They are doing their work with the design and intention of handing it off.