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    Planning Small Groups with Purpose: A Field-Tested Guide to Design and Grow Your Ministry
    Planning Small Groups with Purpose: A Field-Tested Guide to Design and Grow Your Ministry
    Planning Small Groups with Purpose: A Field-Tested Guide to Design and Grow Your Ministry
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    Planning Small Groups with Purpose: A Field-Tested Guide to Design and Grow Your Ministry

    By Steve Gladen and Rick Warren

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    Small groups are a great way to promote the spiritual formation of church attendees. But leading them well can be hard work, especially if you don't have a plan.

    This practical resource helps pastors and small group point people develop and implement a 12- to 18-month strategic plan for their ministries in order to keep it healthy and growing. Developed at Saddleback Church, this completely customizable plan works for any church size and any denomination. Readers answer 22 questions that help them understand their vision, the purpose of their ministry, and how to connect members, grow numerically and spiritually, measure progress, develop leaders, create opportunities to serve, and much more. By the time they're done, readers will have developed their own personalized planner for the next year to 18 months so that they can feel prepared, confident, and purposeful about their small group ministry.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateJul 3, 2018
    ISBN9781493414147
    Planning Small Groups with Purpose: A Field-Tested Guide to Design and Grow Your Ministry
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    Steve Gladen

    Steve Gladen (MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary) has been executive pastor of small groups at Saddleback Church since 1998 and serves as an elder of the church. He oversees the strategic launch and spiritual development of more than 7,000 adult small groups on multiple campuses. He is the author of Small Groups with Purpose, which has been translated into eleven languages, and Leading Small Groups with Purpose. He has a driving passion to see each church attendee connected to a qualified shepherd and become an integral part of their church body, living purposefully for Christ. Steve and his wife, Lisa, have been married for nearly 30 years, have two children, Erika and Ethan, and reside in Orange County, California. Learn more at SteveGladen.com.

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