Author: Ben Bankes

The goal is to have a mentoring culture at your church, but how? It happens through relational mentoring and team mentoring. Let’s explore team mentoring.

We want to see every person engaged in biblical discipleship. In order to understand what this looks like, we use the phrase relational mentoring.

Use this tool with your leaders and team to get better at the essential elements of leading a great small group.

Small group coaches play a vital role because they help small group leaders succeed. This explains how.

If you want to have a great small group, there are a few ground rules that you need to follow. These will help you to treat each other with love and respect, and above all, to build trust in your group.

It’s hard for a group to recover from a weak start. Check out principles for how to get a group started well.

To reproduce, a small group needs enough people. But there is no “magic number”. Various factors dictate when a group is large enough to launch a new group.

Think through your community and church calendars to find the best seasons to launch a new group.

Wise planning helps group members celebrate new groups, even though they may be separated from friends.

Why small groups matter so much.

Good small group leaders lead as a team. Here are some simple recommendations for how to prepare for your group meetings as a team.

Coaches mentor small groups leaders to be effective at leading healthy groups.

A worksheet to help small group leaders and their teams prepare a small group to reproduce itself in a healthy way by launching a new group.

It is important for small group coaches to have clarity on the church’s big picture and how coaching small groups fits into that plan – and to communicate this to the people you are coaching.

Tangents and rabbit trails can take your group off track at any time. As a leader, it is your job to manage group tangents. Here are a few tips.

There are four foundational truths that we must embrace to have a strong coaching ministry.