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A step-by-step guide to engaging in Prayer ministry, a specific way we can have focused intercession with and for the need of a friend.
This resource offers a different topic for each day of the week to guide your time in intercession prayer.
A good small group leader needs to keep the conversation going. Use these 10 tips to give you ideas on how to keep the discussions moving.
A quick reference to various spiritual practices and how one might engage in them.
Discern your next step in New Student Outreach and see how God will shape you and your team as you welcome others into your community.
God is at work all around us in the lives of our friends, acquaintances, and strangers. This resource will walk you through the steps to create a communal prayer wall and help you grow in love for the people on your campus.
This art display outreach (proxe) features a Native-influenced gospel allegory that engages both Christians and non-Christians with the brokenness of our world and Creator's restorative beauty.
Learn to become a student of Jesus at your workplace, in your neighborhood, and with your relationships this summer through this six-week guide.
A printable checklist of practical tasks needed to start a small group including preparation, what you need for your first meeting, and what to do after the first meeting.
This handout outlines how to pace your small group's Bible study, depending on how much time you have available.
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An artistic re-telling of Jesus and the Samaritan woman, from John 4 that can be used for Beyond Colorblind or as a creative introduction to John 4.
In this post-pandemic season as we recovery on some fronts but also continued hardship and strife, these five studies (from both the Old and New Testaments) help root us in God’s faithfulness to his people who throughout history have endured trial, hardship, famine, persecution, and plagues.
Hosted by Caroline Lancaster and Andy Kim, “Flourishing Communities” unpacks the beauty and challenge of pursuing real community.
Discerning what God is doing in each lifecycle of a small group—beginning, middle, and end—and following God into that rhythm is crucial in establishing rhythms of community. This resource will help you know what to expect in each stage and how to prepare.
This worksheet will walk you through the steps of finding apprentices, mentoring them, and creating a roadmap for small group leadership development.
Spending time as a small group in inductive Bible study is a key way to encounter Jesus together. This resource will walk you through the steps of leading a time of inductive Bible study with your small group.
God has granted you and the people in your small group overlapping connections to common friends, social networks, academic departments, and people you see regularly. This resource will help you explore these shared social networks and encounter God together to discern what to do next.
Conflict is complex and a normal part of life. If you have conflict in your small group, it’s a good sign that your group is safe enough to have tension. Conflict, when addressed and resolved, grows the small group closer and healthier, as well as helps everyone in the group mature in emotional and spiritual health. This will help that process.
As your ministry prepares to return to campus (whether online or hybrid), help your community process the grief from the past season and long for God's hope and renewal with these two Bible studies (Psalm 42, Isaiah 55), complete with leaders guide and printable manuscript.
Small Groups are amazing places of community and witness to the gospel, but sometimes they can get a little stuck. Small Group Garage is a communal tool that helps you hear from God and take a practical next step to help your small group thrive as a witnessing community.