Successful Small Groups: From Concept to Practice
Small groups are a vital part of ministry. They offer churches a way to expand discipleship and build deeper relationships within their congregation, while meeting our culture's need for community and connection. But implementing and running a small-group program is not an easy endeavor. From starting from scratch to expanding their group options, many churches are eager to learn more about this important ministry.

Successful Small Groups is filled with everything churches need to launch and manage a small-group program. Author and ministry consultant Teena Stewart uses her experience and insight to show church leaders how to lay a strong foundation for small groups and build a healthy and effective ministry. By examining the best practices of several successful small-group programs, Stewart reveals ways to promote and multiply groups, troubleshoot, write group guidelines, train leaders, motivate groups to minister to others, and much more. She also includes examples of promotional flyers, mission statements, group covenants, and other resources—all of which are adaptable to fit a church's individual needs.

Whether you're planning to begin a program or wanting improve an existing one, Successful Small Groups gives you the skills and information you need to approach small-group leadership and development like a seasoned pro.

Topics include:

• Methods for training, mentoring, and equipping leaders
• Preventing leader burnout
• Suggestions for hands-on mission and benevolence projects
• Innovative teaching techniques
• Ways to keep groups energized and fun
• And more!

192 pages.
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Successful Small Groups: From Concept to Practice
Small groups are a vital part of ministry. They offer churches a way to expand discipleship and build deeper relationships within their congregation, while meeting our culture's need for community and connection. But implementing and running a small-group program is not an easy endeavor. From starting from scratch to expanding their group options, many churches are eager to learn more about this important ministry.

Successful Small Groups is filled with everything churches need to launch and manage a small-group program. Author and ministry consultant Teena Stewart uses her experience and insight to show church leaders how to lay a strong foundation for small groups and build a healthy and effective ministry. By examining the best practices of several successful small-group programs, Stewart reveals ways to promote and multiply groups, troubleshoot, write group guidelines, train leaders, motivate groups to minister to others, and much more. She also includes examples of promotional flyers, mission statements, group covenants, and other resources—all of which are adaptable to fit a church's individual needs.

Whether you're planning to begin a program or wanting improve an existing one, Successful Small Groups gives you the skills and information you need to approach small-group leadership and development like a seasoned pro.

Topics include:

• Methods for training, mentoring, and equipping leaders
• Preventing leader burnout
• Suggestions for hands-on mission and benevolence projects
• Innovative teaching techniques
• Ways to keep groups energized and fun
• And more!

192 pages.
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Successful Small Groups: From Concept to Practice

Successful Small Groups: From Concept to Practice

by Teena M. Stewart
Successful Small Groups: From Concept to Practice

Successful Small Groups: From Concept to Practice

by Teena M. Stewart

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Overview

Small groups are a vital part of ministry. They offer churches a way to expand discipleship and build deeper relationships within their congregation, while meeting our culture's need for community and connection. But implementing and running a small-group program is not an easy endeavor. From starting from scratch to expanding their group options, many churches are eager to learn more about this important ministry.

Successful Small Groups is filled with everything churches need to launch and manage a small-group program. Author and ministry consultant Teena Stewart uses her experience and insight to show church leaders how to lay a strong foundation for small groups and build a healthy and effective ministry. By examining the best practices of several successful small-group programs, Stewart reveals ways to promote and multiply groups, troubleshoot, write group guidelines, train leaders, motivate groups to minister to others, and much more. She also includes examples of promotional flyers, mission statements, group covenants, and other resources—all of which are adaptable to fit a church's individual needs.

Whether you're planning to begin a program or wanting improve an existing one, Successful Small Groups gives you the skills and information you need to approach small-group leadership and development like a seasoned pro.

Topics include:

• Methods for training, mentoring, and equipping leaders
• Preventing leader burnout
• Suggestions for hands-on mission and benevolence projects
• Innovative teaching techniques
• Ways to keep groups energized and fun
• And more!

192 pages.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780834131750
Publisher: Nazarene Publishing House
Publication date: 10/15/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

TEENA M. STEWART is a founder, with her husband, Jeff, of the innovative Christian coffee shop ministry Java Journey in Hickory, North Carolina. She also created DreamBuilders Ministry in Motion, which equips church leaders, and she serves the organization as a writer, ministry consultant, and coach. Her published articles have appeared in Leadership, Discipleship Journal, and Ministry Magazine, as well as many other publications. She authored the book Successful Small Groups and has contributed to several anthologies, most recently Follow Your Dreams (Thomas Nelson).

Table of Contents


Introduction     5
Small-Group Basics
Small Groups-Big Impact     9
A Snapshot of Healthy Small Groups     19
Laying the Groundwork     29
Launching New Groups     42
A Diversity of Small Groups     65
Equipping and Developing Leaders
Are You Training or Straining Your Leaders?     79
Coaching and Mentoring Leaders     83
Birth, Death, and Survival
Birthing and Burying Groups     101
Troubleshooting     112
Thinking Outside the Box...and Church
Out of the Holy Huddles and into the World     129
Unique Groups, Unique Methods     143
Innovation Station: Keeping Groups Energized and Fun
Out of the Rut and into the Groove     153
Innovative Ideas for Small Groups     158
Spicing Things Up with Social Events     166
Summing It Up
Life-Changing Small Groups     177
Small-Group Resources     181
End Notes     191
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