What would it look like if you had 100% of your church involved in small groups? No matter what size your church, you CAN get the maximum number of people engaged in your small groups ministry. There is a proven way for groups to be simple, self-sustaining and life-changing. At this live online 2-hour training, you can gather your whole … Read More
Free Live Webcast – 6 Differences Between Small Groups That Work and Those That Don’t
Over the past year, both online and in-person Small Groups have been very important in keeping people connected to the church, to their faith and to each other. At The Journey, we consistently have over 100% of our average Sunday attendance in Small Groups each semester. And in all Journey locations, we’re holding Small Groups online and in person — … Read More
Free Webcast Replay: 6 Big Ideas for Effective Online Groups
Now you can access a free replay of a brand new training on 6 big ideas for effective online groups. Now during the pandemic, small groups are even more important to keep people connected to the church, to their faith and to each other. At The Journey, we’ve seen great success with moving small groups online — and we want … Read More
Free Live Webcast – 6 Big Ideas for Effective Online Groups
Now during the pandemic, small groups are even more important to keep people connected to the church, to their faith and to each other. At The Journey, we’ve seen great success with moving small groups online — and we want to share these proven best practices with you! Join us THIS Thursday, July 16 for a brand new online training: 6 BIG IDEAS IN 60 MIN … Read More
Maximize Summer By Being Creative With Small Groups (Part 2)
Summer small groups are also an ideal way to raise up new group leaders, for two reasons. Number one, many of your regular leaders will want to take the summer off. In fact, we encourage a summer break. You don’t want leaders to get burned out. And through their break, you open up the opportunity for people who have never led before to step in. … Read More
Maximize Summer By Being Creative With Small Groups (Part 1)
Many churches decide to take a break from small groups during the summer, which is a perfectly legitimate thing to do. But if your structure allows for it, summer groups can be extremely effective for getting new people plugged in… especially if you do them creatively. The summer weather gives you and your group leaders the opportunity to plan lots of fun groups that … Read More
How Do You Minister to Youth through Your Small Groups?
This is Kerrick Thomas – Executive Pastor at The Journey Church and co-author of “Activate” with Nelson. Nelson asked me to address a common small group question today on the blog. The question is “How can we minister to youth through the Small Groups System?” When it comes to youth and semester-based Activate small groups I’ve seen it work effectively in two ways: 1 … Read More
Do Ministry Teams Compete with Small Groups?
This is Kerrick Thomas – Executive Pastor at The Journey Church and co-author of “Activate” with Nelson. Nelson asked if I would take a moment today to address a common small groups question – the apparent “competition” between Small Groups and Ministry Teams. Recently, I’ve received two questions about this same issue and I wanted to answer each of them: … Read More
How to Measure Your Small Group Attendance
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that I’m a believer in measuring things. In fact, we like to keep track of all sorts of measurements at The Journey – from Connection Card completion rates to how many first-time guest books are given away each week. So, it seems natural that one of the questions I’m frequently … Read More
How to Use “Play Groups” to Connect People to Your Church
In Activate: An Entirely New Approach to Small Groups, Kerrick Thomas and I lay out a proven system of semester-based, free market small groups that you can implement to see 80, 90, or even 100% participation in small groups at your church (we regularly see well over 100% of our weekly attenders involved in groups). However, we also employ a … Read More