Helping poor readers in home groups

Ian Carmichael | 26 July, 2013 | 1 comment

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Resource Talk: The genius of training

Resource Talk, Sola Panel

Tony Payne | 1 May, 2007

Training multiplies ministry, but takes time.

It was 1985, and I was a fresh-faced recruit working as a ministry trainee on the campus of the University of New South Wales. It wasn’t called MTS in those days—I think ‘Santa’s Helpers’ was the closest we got to a label—but MTS is what it was. We were let loose to learn by doing—to lead Bible studies, chase up student contacts, evangelize, preach, stack chairs, and generally anything and everything else. It was an extraordinary and life-shaping experience.

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A Growing Concern

Tony Payne | 21 November, 1995

Factotum #8: Pitfalls for small groups

Everyday Ministry

Col Marshall | 3 October, 1995

Our last ‘Factotum’ examined leadership in small groups. In this edition, we continue to focus on the ministry done in small groups, this time looking at some of the problems that can arise. Most of us have been in small groups at different stages of our lives—youth groups, prayer cells, focus groups, Bible studies. We will also have experienced some of the challenges and difficulties that these groups generate. You might like to use this edition as a way of assessing the small groups that you lead or participate in. Are you avoiding the pitfalls? Or are you stumbling headlong into them?

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