Our women's Bible study group is about to start back up soon and I have been thinking a lot about something we used to do. We have a group covenant which is just a way for us to be on the same page - to know what we expect of each other in the group. We go over these items the Introduction night of each study. Most women return to the group and are very familiar with the covenant. But for the new people and as a reminder to the rest of us, we go over them. A covenant is a bin

Another post about small groups. This one is about communication. We all want to be on the same page. There are times you need to contact all the members of a small group. Besides the usual things like sending out the schedule, passing along information about an upcoming social outing, party or service project; sometimes we need to communicate with each other if someone needs immediate prayer, or had a major life event occur, or to clarify something we have been talking about