Prayer Training Time - Training Session #4

IMMEDIATE NEED:  Two people to help with the sign up table this Sunday, August 21, 2016.

For this week's training time there are no videos.
There are two activities to do.

FIRST, PRAY!

Take 10 minutes to pray for Soul Care and this Onward Study.

Here are some specific Biblical prayer requests from the article

How to Pray for your Small Group Ministry

Paul's prayers for the churches make a great place to start praying for small groups—which, after all, are manifestations of the church. Consider these examples:

• Colossians 1:9-14: knowing God's will, spiritual wisdom and fruit, growth in knowledge of God, endurance, patience, joy, gratitude
• Ephesians 1:17-19: spiritual wisdom and revelation, knowledge of God and of their hope as believers
• Ephesians 3:14-21: spiritual power and faith, knowledge of Christ's love, being filled with God's fullness

A major success factor in any small group is meaningful relationships. Here are a few ways to pray for relationships in your small groups:

• Pray for a spirit of grace and forgiveness among group members (James 1:19 and Matthew 6:12, 14-15).
• Pray for humility (Philippians 2:1-5).
• Ask God to protect the groups from grumbling and complaining spirits (Philippians 2:14-15).
• Ask God to create environments of encouragement (1 Thessalonians 5:11).
• Pray that God will reveal small-group members' spiritual gifts and create opportunities for those gifts to be used to honor him and serve the groups.
• Pray for appropriate levels of intimacy, accountability, and confidentiality.
• Ask God to lead new people into the right small groups, and pray for a spirit of acceptance and welcoming.

Here are some specific prayer requests related to our Soul Care ministry this Fall.

• Pray this Onward study would help groups members think Biblically as they engage.
• Pray that new Soul Care Group leaders would be identified, trained and developed.  I would really love for us to commit praying specifically for this ongoing prayer request.
• Pray for group members to be more focused on glorifying God and challenging others to do the same. 

SECOND, EMAIL.

Email Pastor Dave at soulcare@emmanuelbaptist.com 

to let me know which of the trainings you have done.

If you have not done all of the trainings,

 please do them and then let me know.

ONWARD 6 Session Bible Study (Softcover)

The softcover 6 session Onward 6 Session Bible Study is what we are going to be using 

in our Soul Care training this Fall.  

Each group will get one copy of this book for free for the leader.

Your group members can sign up in the foyer to purchase a copy for $12.00

or can purchase a copy at LifeWay for $12.99, with coupons or upcoming sales you could purchase it for cheaper.

ONWARD book (Hardcover)

The hardcover book Onward is not needed for our study 

BUT is a great book that develops the themes 

introduced in the Bible Study and Video.