Ideas for Small Groups

by Dawn J. Ranck, Merle Good (Joint Author)

Here is gathered wisdom from those who have had experience in forming, sustaining, and energizing small accountability groups.Forty percent of the American public is currently involved in some sort of small group, ranging from a special interest to general discussion, from therapy to singles, from Bible-study to covenant. Many are driven by a serious effort to provide a sense of community or to enhance a quest for spirituality.This handbook is full of seasoned experience; it refuses to dodge the most basic of How do you establish leadership? How do you change leaders? How do you incorporate members of different ages and in different stages of life? How do you build trust, create intimacy, and authentically encourage each other, without violating members' varying needs for privacy? What do you do about internal conflict? Is there a healthy way to disband? If your small group is religious in nature, how can belonging to it contribute to your faith?Honest, hard-won insights from those who've participated in and led this widely growing movement.

256 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 2000