Small Group Leaders How To's

Small Group Retention Strategies – How to Keep the Groups You Start

Just like you, we use many opportunities to start small groups throughout the year, but none is more challenging than small group retention strategies.

Why Small Group Ministries Fail

Many churches have attempted to start small groups, only to abort shortly after takeoff. I’ll share why small group ministries fail: the top 10 ways to ensure the failure of your group.

3 Great Advent Ideas for Your Small Group

Advent is a great time to consider reaching out to your neighbors, friends, and family, sharing with them the real meaning behind Christmas. Below are Advent ideas for your small group.

How Small Groups Bring Redemptive Relationships

Within minutes of the group starting, I’m overwhelmed; not by the stress of another activity on the schedule, but by the sheer blessing of redemptive relationships.

Teaching Others How To Pray Out Loud in a Group

Jesus taught the disciples to pray. Shouldn’t we do the same? Specifically, shouldn't we teach how to pray out loud in a group?

4 Deep Bible Questions To Engage Your Small Group

By asking fewer, more strategic questions, deep Bible questions, you go deeper and involve more people in discussing and responding to God’s word.

Dealing With Needy People in Your Group

Neediness becomes a problem to address when it manifests in unhealthy ways.

Two Lessons From Joshua About the God of Strategy

In order to possess the promised land they were going to have to knock out seven major enemies. Even the Promised Land has problems. Israel needed the God of strategy.

Small Group Leader’s Guide: How to Make Things Not Awkward

We’ve all been to them: awkward small groups. For one reason or another, something wasn’t clicking.

7 Tips for Leading Small Group Worship

The two most significant barriers to having meaningful worship in small groups are musical leadership and the misconception that worship is synonymous with music.

16 Small Group Roles to Share Ownership With Everyone

One of the best ways to make your small group more healthy and exciting is to share ownership with everyone through small group roles.