In partnership with Awdeeoh, a registered 501(c)(3) organization. 📞 Den Leader, Daniel Harmon - 765-491-1639 📍 Lafayette, Indiana
Updated: October 2025
Discipleship has always been the heartbeat of the Church. In this generation, it faces an epidemic marked by isolation, complacency, and the slow decay of spiritual discipline. The Den rises in answer to that need.
The Den will be a house built for formation, where men will be trained to live in alignment with God through prayer, study, discipline, and community. Each day will call them to grow in character, conviction, and fortitude, to take ownership of their faith, and to walk in the kind of accountability that produces fruit. The Den is both a response and a statement. Holiness still matters. Brotherhood still strengthens. Transformation is not an event but a process. Within these walls, faith will be lived with intention, examined with humility, and proven through consistency. Here, men will learn what it means to release what weakens them and embrace what sustains them. In doing so, they will discover freedom, maturity, and purpose rooted in Christ.
This is the work before us: restoring discipleship to its rightful place at the center of a man’s life.
The Den is a residential discipleship ecosystem built for holistic transformation. It is a rented home with five or more rooms that functions as both a dwelling and a place of formation. Within its walls, rhythms of faith, fortitude, and freedom become daily practice.
The Den operates as:
Every aspect of The Den has been designed for sustainability. Den Leaders pay rent to maintain stability. Guests contribute financially toward their stay, supporting the local Church while investing in their own growth. The home becomes a self-sustaining environment where accountability, study, worship, and fitness coexist.
This vision carries the DNA of the Body of Christ, grounded in a tangible space. The Den stands as the physical embodiment of what we, Release Church, have built faithfully on a virtual platform: a place where men can live what they have learned, walk out what they have believed, and become living testimonies of transformation. The same resources that sustain them within The Den, including teaching, accountability, prayer, and community, remain accessible online through Release Church before, during, and after their time in the house, ensuring the rhythm of discipleship never ends.
Across generations, the Church has carried the call to make disciples, yet the practice of discipleship has weakened under the weight of modern life. Men are surrounded by spiritual content but deprived of spiritual formation. They are more connected than ever, yet rarely accountable. They are busy with Christian activity but distant from genuine maturity.
Discipleship faces an epidemic that runs deeper than distraction or disbelief. It is a crisis of formation. Many know the language of faith but lack the discipline, endurance, and structure to live it out. Men in particular have grown accustomed to living spiritually detached, emotionally exhausted, and mentally fragmented.
The modern believer wrestles not only with sin but with confusion, anxiety, and inconsistency. Mental health has become a growing concern within the Body of Christ, yet few environments exist where it can be addressed alongside spiritual healing. Many are caught between spiritual ambition and emotional instability, seeking breakthroughs without foundation.