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10 Simple Things You Can Do TODAY to Help Your Small Group Ministry Thrive

7. Pick out a book to read or a study to do with your coaches. If you’ve got the right people in the coaching role, you’ll want to spend time developing and discipling them. Once you’ve chosen a book or a study, choose a morning that works for most and put it on the calendar. Whether you meet once a month or even once a week for a season, it will be an investment with big returns. See also, 7 Practices for Developing and Discipling Your Coaches.

8. Join a Small Group Network huddle. If you’re not already part of a huddle, you can find the best one for you right here. If there’s not one in your area, consider starting your own! It’s as easy as a quick phone call to have coffee with another small group pastor/director in your area. You can do it and you’ll be glad you did.

9. Meet with the leaders of any on-campus studies your church offers. You can be a resource to the leaders of your church’s Beth Moore study, Men’s Fraternity, etc. Offering to provide skill training for table leaders might be a simple first step that leads to helping them develop their own coaching structure for leaders. And it will help establish you as their go-to expert on how to deliver the best experience to members. See also, Groups of All Kinds and the Essential Ingredients of Life-Change.

10. Spend an hour getting to know some unconnected people in your church. A few minutes learning about the lives, families, schedules, interests, problems and concerns of unconnected people will help you develop first steps and next steps that are easy, obvious and strategic. Until you actually know a few unconnected people, you will pay too much attention to the interests of already connected people. Preoccupied with the Needs and Interests of the Right People and Learn to Empathize with Your End User