Articles for Small Group Leaders

When you think about discipleship in a small group what comes to mind? For many people it is Bible study, prayer, fellowship, worship…

Here’s a different holiday idea: How about getting a few abnormal gifts for your whole small group?

I’ll never forget Miss Moss, with her Coke-bottle glasses and a disability that left her slow and kind. She loved writing notes of encouragement...

Small Groups create a place where we can share our lives with others. Small Groups create a place where we can encourage and challenge one another. Small Groups create a place where the Holy Spirit can make disciples. And you are creating that place.

As you develop your leaders bring this same question before them: Who Is the Mephibosheth in your neighborhood and circles that is crippled spiritually? Is your heart like David's?

I’ve found that people often project their preferred model of church life back upon the early church and therefore fill in the blanks. But there is something much more significant about the first century church that we need to hear and heed.

Whether you are a small group leader/ host or the small group pastor/point person at your church, here are 7 childcare solutions to help your small group(s) thrive.

These are 7 powerful ways that a church's small groups can reach people for Jesus. And we've seen these happening at Saddleback effectively.