Cast Vision
It's not enough for just one person to have the vision for small groups. You need your entire team—and your entire congregation—to understand the importance of group life. Communicate your vision in a concise, compelling way.
Hosts or Leaders: What Should We Call Our Volunteers?
Take a look at what a simple word can communicate.
Guía de Orientación: Director de Grupos Pequeños
Recursos para la persona liderando el ministerio de grupos pequeños.
What Was the New Testament Church Like?
Acts 2 house churches have a lot to teach today's small groups.
Connect People into Meaningful Short-Term Groups
Benefits of short-term groups and how to get the word out
Small-Group Ministry Trends for 2013
What small-group leaders, coaches, directors, and pastors are talking about
Create a Compelling Vision
Assess and revamp your current ministry vision, or create one from scratch.
Effectively Communicate About Your Ministry
Everything you need to get the word out about your ministry
Making a Case for Small Groups
Gain practical tips for helping others understand the value of small groups
Improving Communication for Effective Small-Group Ministry
Communicate your message about small groups to church leaders, small-group leaders, and church members in a clear and compelling way.
Instill the Vision in Your Small-Group Leaders
Five tools to effectively communicate your vision
Resource Review: Connecting in Communities
Eddie Mosley's new book is a welcome tool for pastors and church leaders.
Adding Small Groups to a Sunday-School Church
Patience, prayer, and planning are vital when taking such a big step.
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
Breaking down the barriers to in-house video promos and testimonials
A Body with No Head
Have churches and small groups replaced the incomparable Christ with something safer and smaller?
The Benefits of Small Groups in Smaller Churches
Exploring the power of accountability, forward momentum, and missional identity
Small Groups and the Missional Renaissance (pt. 2)
What is God doing through the missional church, and how do small groups fit in?
Small Groups and the Missional Renaissance (pt. 1)
What is God doing through the missional church, and how do small groups fit in?
Casting a Vision for Small Groups
Use these step-by-step resources to successfully spread the word in your church.
Best Church Practices: Small-Group Covenants
Use these sample forms or adapt them for the specific needs of your group.
Casting a Vision for Group Multiplication
Practical advice for shifting the culture and focus of your ministry
Best Church Practices: Small-Group Job Descriptions
Save yourself some time by modifying these job descriptions for small-group roles.
What's the Best Way to Launch New Small Groups?
The answer lies in which set of problems you are most willing to endure.
Best Church Practices: Small-Group Ministry
Resources and forms to help you with the administration of small groups
Building a Culture of Discipleship
Encourage your entire congregation to grow spiritually as a community.
The Saddleback Small Group Difference
The core philosophy of the Purpose-Driven Small Groups movement
Sample Form: Church-Wide Announcement for Small Groups
Adapt this sample form to announce and promote small groups in your church.
Effective Turbo Groups
Learn about this method of training several new group leaders at once.
Where the Divorced Get More than Sympathy
An innovative small-groups ministry for a neglected group of people
Key Principles for Relaunching
Determine if your small-group ministry needs to be relaunched and how to do it well if it does.
Holistic Small Group Ministries: Goodbye to Ho-Hum
Healthy churches have very definite ideas about why they do what they do and what they are trying to communicate and accomplish.
Support Groups May Be Worth the Trouble
A church needs to carefully consider the risks and benefits before launching a group.
Grouping People Outside The Church
What if we trained leaders to start small groups among those who do not yet know Christ?
Drawing Men Into Small Groups
Learn how to develop small groups that will be effective with men.
Bridge to a Place Called Home
How one ministry partners with churches to put the homeless back on their feet.
Disciple-Making Small Groups
Effective, disciple-making small groups marry mission and values.
How to Start an Accountability Group
Practical instruction on how to get an accountability group going and why it is important.
Gift-based Groups as a Catalyst for Life Change
A small group ministry is a powerful means of unleashing the power of your congregation's spiritual gifts.
Small Groups Simply Don’t Work
Small groups are not a program, a growth strategy, or an alternative to Sunday School
The Goal is Not to Get People into Groups
We cannot presume that we are supposed to connect 100% of our congregation with other members of our congregation.
Missionally-focused vs. Need-based
People are not inspired to get involved when small groups are promoted as something that fills a personal need.
Taking the Church to the People
he church must move from being the inviting church to becoming the invading church.
Expanding the Neighborhood through Small Groups
How do we minister to neighborhoods that are so diverse?
Reach Out and Touch People…Right Where They Live
I was just looking to care for an ailing member, but God opened the door to something much bigger.
Healthy Small Group
We had to figure out what "healthy small group" meant, how to identify it, and how to foster healthy growth.
Open to the Talent Within
What one senior pastor from a small-sized church learned as he prayed for his small-group ministry to flourish.
The Best Ways to Sustain Your New Small Groups--Part 2
Keep groups going after the 40 days of purpose.
Getting from A to C
A case study of the Coffee Shop Connection, a small group outreach for people seeking God who are skeptical about traditional venues like the local Christian church.
The Story of a Relationship-based Church
A case study of Harvest, a relationship-based church.
Getting into the FLOW of Small Groups
A case study of a Midwestern church that, as it grew, was looking for a way that could make the church smaller as it became larger.
The Best Ways to Sustain Your New Small Groups--Part 1
Keep groups going after the 40 days of purpose.
Old But Not Worthless
An elderly woman embraces the call to minister to others in her nursing home.
The Father's Heart for Others
The love a small group showed for a woman going through cancer is opening her to God's love for her.
The Call From The Holy Spirit
God has ways he wants to use us if we are willing to follow his leading.
Why So Many House Churches?
People are choosing to gather outside of the traditional church setting, and they're creating community in their homes.
House Churches, G-12, and Some Implications for the Future
Why are cells replacing, not just augmenting many congregations?
Taking Their Faith to the Streets
A small group's one-time mission project turns into a ministry.
ABC: The Building Blocks of Community
It may take guts, but Authentic Biblical Community is something to strive for.
Christ Fellowship "Huddles Up" and Watches Their Small Groups Explode
How the 40 days of purpose led to an explosion of small groups at one church.
Face to Face Community Groups
Our hope was to get out into the world with the good news of Jesus.
Identity Crisis
In an age where so many different models are available, many churches find themselves confused.
Betting the Farm on Small Groups
The reason for making a move to being a cell church is not that it is easier, but because it will be more effective.
Using Midsize Groups to Incubate Small Groups
Develop the idea of small groups among your congregation.
A Church OF Small Groups
We focus on 5 core values: upward, inward, outward, forward, and onward.
A Church IS Small Groups
Cell churches are churches based on a clustering of believers, rather than the assembly of all its members.
How to Have a Successful Children's Group Time
If you're struggling with where to start with a children's small group time, here are a few suggestions.
Small Group Missions Here and Now
We in the small group movement have an incredible opportunity to practice missions right here in the U.S.
Make Disciples of All Cultures
What will it take for our churches to become disciple-making churches?
A Christmas Gift of Love
With an empty pocket book but a full heart, I began to think of what I could give those I love during the Christmas season.
Intergenerational Teamwork
A father-daughter team worked together to reach the local youth, with lasting results.
In Our Own Backyards
During the summer, we took the gospel to people in our own backyards—literally.
Make Your Cell Meeting Visitor-Friendly
Make a visitor's first time at your cell group as comfortable as possible.
Come and See
The VBS Jamboree gave us a chance to share the gospel with both the kids and their parents.
Building Groups or Making Disciples? Part 3
Models for intentional discipleship in a small groups church, focusing on open group membership coupled with one-on-one mentoring.
How We Reached Our Neighbors and Launched an Investigative Study
It's true: people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
