by Thom Corrigan
Take a few minutes today and examine where you are investing your life-resources. A check-up quiz will help you see if you are building healthy boundaries that preserve your preparation time for small group.
1. Is there anyone who regularly demands more from me than is healthful? (How can I respond to those individuals [...]
Thought it’d be a fun activity to jot down some neat stuff going on through the ranks of GROWing Families care groups: to inspire you, to give you creative ideas, to produce material that helps us all glorify God together.
In the Ellefson group, they did a fun icebreaker with chopsticks: relay-race style with 2 teams [...]
We caught up with (literally!) Bethel’s Director of Outreach, Dave Dawson, to see what he’s been up to, and what we small group leaders can learn from him:
What outreach ministries of Bethel fall under your leadership supervision, and how to keep the fire hot under them? Internal to Bethel: Alpha and First Steps [...]
If you were at the last Leadership Briefing on January 25, you heard a dynamic talk by Growth & Healing Director Joseph Christopherson on the topic of transformational prayer. A leader’s prayer life has to have these qualities in order to be the example for his/her group to see it modeled–to revolutionize the group’s [...]
This 4-week DVD curriculum, complete with participant’s guides (for $5 each), and a book ($11, most likely just one for the leader), is a great resource for your small group to view and discuss, to go along with Bethel’s INVITE focus for this year. You’ll be challenged by Bill Hybels to be more aware of [...]
by Steve Gladen
Community is belonging together, joining as part of the Body of Christ for the biblical purposes that Jesus charged us with keeping. And since small groups are also chartered with keeping the purposes, how do we turn them into small groups centered around God’s purposes? And as a part of that, how do we [...]
