What’s NEXT for your church?

LifeWay and Saddleback Church present the NEXT Small Group Conference — THE training event for church leaders who want to understand and apply the best and most potent strategies for connecting the church.

The early bird rate for this two-day conference is only $39.00 per person, per day, and features a day of training for small group pastors and a second day of training for small group pastors and their small group leaders. The conference is led by practitioners, not authors or theorists, and teaches principles that have been proven in more than 10 years of implementation, yielding enormous growth in groups and within the spiritual health of members. As practiced at Saddleback — the #1 church in small groups with 150% of their weekend attendance in groups — these principles have been adapted and adopted by hundreds of churches with great success.

For leading ministry today, small group strategy may no longer be optional for churches, but essential. Here’s why:

• The right small groups approach opens a new front door to your church — NEXT gives you strategies to reach out into your community to connect people to your church
• An effective small groups strategy closes the back door of your church — NEXT gives you techniques for connecting new people with others to create relationships that statistically cause people to “stick” to your church
• The right small groups plan grows the committed core of your church — NEXT shows you how to grow attendees in discipleship, mobilize them to do ministry, and launch them into evangelism, developing spiritually healthy small groups that become the backbone of the church
• Small groups are a natural place for much of the pastoral care in your church — NEXT explains why Rick Warren wrote in The Purpose Driven Church, “The whole church is like a large ship and the small groups are the lifeboats.”

Dates and locations are listed below. The first registration for each city is for small group pastors who wish to attend one or both days of the conference. The second registration is for small group leaders who plan to attend the second day of the conference.

Who should attend NEXT?

• Small group pastors/directors
• Small group point people
• Ministers of adult education
• Lay leaders
• Small group leaders
• Anyone responsible for connecting and spiritual growth