Doing Small Group Ministry Together
How to Start and Sustain a Healthy Small Group Ministry in Your Church
There is no simple solution to growing a healthy, balanced body of believers. However, a thriving small group ministry may be one of the best ways to fulfill the biblical purposes of the church—and solve many of the issues of evangelism and stewardship that can confound pastors.
Doing Small Group Ministry Together is a training partnership specifically designed for church leadership that is hoping to both start and sustain a healthy small group ministry. We are excited to share our learnings and best practices in retaining momentum for discipleship through a thriving small group ministry.
This partnership will help you discover the best way for your church to sustain a healthy small group ministry according to your church’s felt needs as you:
1. Consult everyone, every season before building your plan
2. Create a partnership with your senior pastor and staff
3. Connect your entire congregation into community
4. Challenge everyone to take their next step
5. Cultivate disciples who make disciples
6. Champion everyone to serve better and together
7. Catalyze everyone to lead someone and/or something
8. Coach your leaders anytime, anywhere, and always
9. Content is King so produce and publish everything
10. Communication is the Catalyst for momentum
11. Church alignment strategies that work
12. Celebrate everything you want repeated
Digital Ministry Platforms
Leveraging the extensive library of, and access to, highly produced Lifetogether content, we developed a suite of 8 platforms that provide education, inspiration and coaching needed for churches and their members to engage, connect and grow.
ELECTIVES
Choose from dozens of LifeTogether electives featuring ideas and practices proven effective in some of the country’s largest and fastest-growing churches. Having these new or sharpened tools at hand will mean greater impact for your ministries.
Go Deeper and Wider With Online Experience & Audience Participation
Produce In-Home Video Curriculum & Alignment Campaigns With Your Team
Catalyze Community with Breakthrough Weekend Alignment Strategies
Discover Proven Models for recruiting & developing unlimited leaders
Revolutionary media & technology breakthroughs for your service
Produce Engaging Video Productions by encouraging member participation
Cutting-Edge Tools and Resources to bring church to your community
Develop Events & Activities to Mobilize and Motivate More Volunteers
Learn fresh new approaches, next generation small group ministry
Determining growth engines, key performance drivers & catalysts
New ideas, topics, & outlines: Preaching strategies to sharpen your impact
The generosity factor: Breakthrough ways to increase your giving
Recruit, train and develop high-capacity leaders and volunteers
Repurpose Past Content to Professionally Produce Books and Resources
Weekend & Next-Step Assimilation Strategies for Stronger Connections
Refine & Multiply Off-Site venues with new micro/macro site strategies
Leverage your life, leadership, legacy for the kingdom
Seeker to Leader: Create a successful discipleship pathway
Maximizing holiday services: Christmas, Easter and beyond
PROGRAM FEATURES:
Church Ministry Assessment
- Establish the initial and ongoing relationship with key staff
- Complete an initial comprehensive assessment and ongoing evaluation
- Create the ministry plan, objectives and a master calendar
On-Campus Visits (when available)
- Establish the initial and ongoing relationship with key staff
- Complete an initial comprehensive assessment and ongoing evaluation
- Determine and develop the combined customized tracks & electives
- Create the ministry plan, objectives and a master calendar
Virtual Team Meetings
- Designed to address strategic topics selected from the Top 100 learnings
- Serve as a review of the progress and renewal of next-step plans
- Targeting strategic leadership and ministry teams
Online Video Coaching Sessions
- Take advantage of on-line training sessions designed by topic
- Available at your convenience to choose sessions based on individual or ministry needs
- Wide variety of coaching topics developed over years of working with the largest and fastest growing churches
One-On-One Coaching Calls
- Calls for the senior pastor and team leaders
- Master schedule will be developed to help determine which individuals based off of content and conversation
- Includes regular and infrequent sessions with staff members, ministry team leaders, and key volunteers
- Sessions serve as a deeper dive on strategic topics plus accountability and preparation for team meetings
Online Toolbox
- Training videos for senior pastors and staff
- Exclusive Top 100 articles and downloads
- Live case studies from the leading churches
- Teaching materials and session downloads
- Webinars with Brett and faculty of Pastors
- Small group and volunteer training materials
What Leading Pastors Are Saying
Gene Appel
Eastside Christian Church
“LifeTogether is not just the name of an organization. It’s what they do. Brett Eastman and his team have come alongside us to produce better leaders, more polished curriculum, stronger groups, and- maybe best of all- lots more groups. We are grateful for their partnership.”
Dale Oquist
Peoples Church
“I am a big fan of Brett Eastman and LifeTogether because he has helped me, as the pastor of a large church, to connect with our faith family in deep and significant ways. He has made the difficult possible, and assisted our quest to create an intimate culture despite the size of our church.”
Rick Warren
Saddleback Church
“When it comes to the dream-it-up phase of a project – where you imagine the possibilities, consider the alternatives, and produce a scenario for communicating your message in a compelling way – I’ve never met anyone who can match Brett’s genius.”
Greg Surratt
Seacoast Church
“It’s been a joy to work with Brett and the LifeTogether team. In addition to increasing our small- group engagement, we have learned some principles that will help us over the long haul. As a coach, Brett challenged me to do more with recording small group curriculum than I thought I could. They made a challenging process fun. I highly recommend partnering with LifeTogether in your ministry.”
Wayne Cordeiro
New Hope Oahu
“Brett’s ministry, heart, and skills made it possible for us to quadruple our small-group involvement. He is a competent and hands-on coach with the sensitivity necessary to make it all come together.”
Tim Harlow
Parkview Christian Church
“We always felt bad about the low numbers of people we had connected in groups. But we had the excuse of rapid growth and never thought it was possible to keep up. Until LifeTogether. Now we can almost make the ridiculous claim that we have as many people connected in groups as we have attending in a given weekend. It never would have been possible without my friends at LifeTogether.”