Below you will find a variety of resources to help you be more confident and competent as a Life Group leader. If you have any suggestions for additional material, please let us know.
Group Life
Our Leader's Manual for download to iphone or ipad - Leader's Manual
Guidelines for Healthy Groups - Guidelines
Life Group Template - Template
How to Ask Great Questions (Head, Heart, Hands) - Great Questions
Games for Life Groups - Games Games 2
Icebreakers for Life Groups - 75 Icebreaker Questions
Babysitting Forms - Application Background Check
Tough Topics
Handling Conflict - See Role 5 in your Leader's Guide or click here
Long Talkers - Article from Lifeway
Why Branch? - Article from Relational Discipleship Network
The Difficult People in your Life Group and How to Deal with Them - Article from Life.Church
Sermons on Dealing with Controlling, Critical, Needy or Hypocritical People - From Life.Church
Lack of Commitment or Openness - From Bible Study Media
Counseling People in Crisis - Guidelines to Remember
Suggestions for talking with people experiencing grief, crisis, suicide, aging parents, marital issues, eating disorders, etc. -
Helping Leaders find REST - Small Group Network
Media
A good podcast about leading a Life Group from one of our partner churches with tips and tools - Life Group podcast
Another good podcast from Discipleship.org - The Disciple Maker's Podcast
Please remember all the good content on RightNow Media. Click on our personal "Grace Fellowship Church - Kingsport" page to see content specific to our church and Life Groups. RightNow Media