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For student workers like Jodie, launching small groups online can be an exciting yet daunting task. Can we still have deep conversations? Will my students still invite their friends?  How on earth do you even host an online small group to begin with?!  Jodie recently signed up to be a part of Online Small Groups Training sessions which helped her to think through how...

Can you see what is coming alive?  Our lives are now substantially different. It's confusing for the mind, the body and the spirit. We're not getting outside as much, not traveling to uni, you might be eating differently, your body might be feeling uneasy with less sunlight and exercise. Your mind might feel a little less stimulated with limited human contact....

Churches are full of amazing people who lead our PA, welcome, cafe, kids work and worship teams. Without them, our Sunday services wouldn’t have happened in the way that they have for so long.  However, now these gatherings have stopped. Due to the #COVID19 crisis we are not able to meet in gathered groups. What if we released all those leaders...

In most churches that I’ve encountered, usually about half of the people are in mid-week small groups and the other half are not. This is due to a whole range of reasons of course. Perhaps life was so busy that it felt too difficult to fit it into the diary.  Maybe the ones they used to be in were rubbish, so...

For years people in our culture have been lulled into a spiritual stupor by too much comfort, apathy and post-modernity. But they are waking up!  #COVID19 has come like bucket of cold water in the face to someone having an afternoon nap! Even in the last few days we have heard of lots of students who are not Christians yet asking to join...

Whether it is through persecution or another circumstance, if the church is prevented from having big gatherings, the church grows rapidly.  There are many places in the world where it is not possible to have corporate or public worship. When this happens, the church is forced to meet in secret small groups of believers. In order to continue meeting in the...

The current circumstances brought about by #COVID19 presents the church with the biggest missional opportunity in many years. The question is, will we respond to it? In such a small amount of time, our world has been turned upside down and reordered. Whether it is kids being home-schooled, studying / working from home or panic-buyers out in full force - the world is a...