The Small Group handbook

Author: Dave Galloway w/ kathi Mills

Good, solid read...if you:
1. Want to be involved in your church
2. Have to be involved in your church (pastors, interns, board members)
3. Don’t understand the big fuss or importance of this small group boom that is being talked about by all the big churches and why people in your church need to implement them into your own church (everyone over 50, most church board members, small church pastors)

The author is the current pastor of the first official church to:
1. Implement small group ministry and actual
2. Call it small group ministry

You see, in case anyone has missed it, small group ministry is nothing new to the church or the world but the emphasis of it is just now being pushed to the front lines of the Christian Church. The emphasis is to purposefully allow people to live life together. It has become very easy to allow yourself to act right at church and on Wednesday night, but to allow people to have church in their homes is ‘real life.’

The book has a lot of Q & A sections. He tells the story and gives a few quotable tips but doesn’t say, “This is what you should do in your church.” He tells a story of something that worked for his church and the purpose and philosophy behind it. The Q & A sections are most encouraging because they are questions he has answered from other pastors and lay persons in regards to his ‘new’ book’s ideas.

It’s an easy read. I would recommend it to those mentioned up above who like to read. The book is very practical and deals a lot with real church and not ideal church situations.


Total pages: 157