06.24.10
Pocket Guides... Quick Reads for Small Group Leaders and Coaches
We all want our small group leaders to read books. You know the drill. You've read a great book on small group leadership and you want every one of your small group leaders (or coaches) to discover what you have unearthed. You want them to care enough to make the purchase, read the book, and utilize the information, the principles and practices found in that book. The truth… You want them to grasp four or five key principles. The other truth… They don't have time and probably don't want to read a 210 pager.
Randall Neighbour and Touch Outreach Ministries has created a series of pocket guides, tiny books that will literally fit in your small group leader's pocket. I know of six pocket guide topics that are available (there may be more):
- Community Life 101, Getting the Most Out of Your Small Group Experience
- The Answer Book for Small Group Leaders
- Coaching Small Groups, Befriending Leaders and Helping Groups Produce Fruit
- Burnout-Free Small Group Leadership, How to Gather a Core Team and Lead from the Second Chair
- 303 Ice Breakers
- The Pocket Guide to Leading a Small Group
These are better than Cliff Notes. They are conversational while unveiling key principles and practices needed by your small group team. They're also cheap.
By the way, each of these can be read in completion in about thirty minutes.
These are resources you might want to seriously consider handing out to your small group leaders and coaches.
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