Top Tips for being a Great Growth Group Member

Thanks for coming along to our Growth Group Launch Events. It was great to think, learn, laugh and pray together. As promised, here is a collected list of all the Top Tips for being a great growth group member!

  • Turn up

  • Turn up even if you don’t feel like it

  • Turn up on time

  • Listen to each other

  • Keep confidentiality

  • Actively participate in the group 

  • Get talking from week 1

  • Love, respect and support your leaders

  • Bring your Bible

  • Prepare by reading the passage in advance

  • Pray for each other heaps 

  • Be encouraging, vulnerable and empathetic

  • Participate by helping with group admin, supper, helping to drive mission or keep in touch with your mission partner 

  • Be a member all week, contacting each other, praying for each other, following up with each other and saying hi at church!

  • Make room for each person individually and really seek to know each other

  • Ask the question you are thinking about (others are probably thinking it too!)

  • Stay on topic

  • Don’t monopolise the group 

We are praying that you have a great time in growth group this year!

Nigel Fortescue

Nigel Fortescue is the Senior Minister at Christ Church St Ives. He is married to Nicky and they have four young adult children. Nigel truly believes that Jesus rose from the dead and that this news is life-changing and worth exploring.

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