After the founders arrived in 2013, they began training local disciples on how to share the Gospel and train others to do the same. The training began using a biblically sound, but easily reproducible training tool called Tree of Life (TOL). TOL has a strong emphasis on accountability which is essential to multiplication. The key element was for these national disciples (which we also call trainers) to understand they were the best missionaries to their people, and the Great Commission called for them to be involved.

In April 2016, the founders of Training2Send brought TOL to West Africa. The foundational principle of the training that holds the national missionary is the best missionary was foreign to the churches in Senegal and Guinea Bissau where the work began. The church had fallen into the trap of thinking the pastors and foreign missionaries were the ones who did evangelism and discipleship, not ordinary disciples.

The training began with a few national partners who were passionate about reaching their people for Christ. The disciples that were being trained and were obedient experienced the Lord using them to multiply His kingdom. We began to see salvations in areas where there were no believers as those being trained took the gospel to those difficult areas where Islam was the dominant religion.