Dances With Calendars: 4 Tips When Calendaring Your Small Groups
There is no other activity that’s good for “absolutely nothing” like calendaring. But as small group ministry leaders who are often thinking about late-summer recruiting, fall-launches, winter-holiday breaks, leader-training, etc – mapping out a calendar with our teams is usually something we are doing and re-doing throughout the year. When Dances with Wolves hit theaters […]
Santa Claus – This Is How I Small Group
This Is How I Small Group is a periodic series getting to know members of the small group. Some will have decades of experience, others will be brand new to small group ministry. Each one has a unique perspective that makes them invaluable to their church and to the small group network. Name: Santa Claus (but […]
Thanks You: Virtual Lobby Gathering – Oct 7th
Thank You! And don’t forget to share with your friends! Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on linkedin LinkedIn Share on email Email Days Hours Minutes Seconds Become a better leader, building better leaders The biggest casualty of the pandemic was leadership. Leaders were burnt out, under constant attack and pressure from […]
Internship Ministry
Lisa Birle takes you through step by step, how to build an internship that works for both your church and the interns. She includes training on building a “training church” culture, recruiting and finding your interns, creating a development program, setting expectations, and more. Intern programs can be a vital way to accomplish important and […]
2023 Lobby Gathering
Lobby Gathering Feb 21-23, 2023 Register The Lobby Gathering is an out-of-the-box small group Retreat. What’s your favorite part of the last conference or retreat you attended? If you answered the conversations you had or relationships you made, then the LOBBY Gathering is for you. It is designed to take the experience you had in […]
5 Ways to Plan on Getting Refreshed this Summer
Grow as a leader, strengthen your team & learn the essentials of small group ministry by attending Align Denver! You as a small group point person have walked through so much in the last year. This pandemic has forced many groups to go out of their comfort zone. The current affairs of our country have […]
How to Find all the Group Leaders You Need
Jesus said the harvest is plentiful by the workers a few. Workers have always been the bottleneck to the evangelism/ discipleship process. Saddleback solves this problem with what they call the two-friends strategy. Steve Gladen and Derek Olson recently produced a podcast where they discussed this. Listen to the full podcast here. Here are some […]
What’s Your Vision Coming Out of COVID-19
Vision is your dream. Where do you want your ministry to go? What is your big picture of the future? The “why” always determines how long people will stay in Small Group Ministry. As you start a new ministry or accelerate an existing ministry, you likely have a long list of things you need or tasks that […]
How Saddleback Started 3,000 Groups During Covid-19
Saddleback is a big church with a lot of small groups. But how did they handle the pandemic and what mistakes did they make?
How to Gather a “C-Team”
Accelerate the health and growth of your small group ministry in 2020 by attending an “Accelerate” small group workshop! Register HERE Steve Gladen always talks about gathering a C- Team around you in your Small Group Ministry, and by C-Team, he’s not giving the team a specific grade! Any company you work for likely has […]