We’re so grateful for this collection of Spirit-filled leaders helping us cultivate the community life of Trinity Church. This ‘hub’ is a dedicated web page for you, as leaders, where you can find all the information you will need to lead your Group.

AUTUMN 2025

Discipleship Groups are about discipleship, family and mission and take shape around three core practices of eat, share and pray. This term at Trinity our Discipleship Groups will be engaging with these values through the Practicing the Way Course.

PRACTICING THE WAY

This course features eight sessions of teaching, guided conversation, and spiritual exercises designed to lay a foundation for lifelong apprenticeship to Jesus. You can find all the information you will need to run the course by clicking here.

Please set yourself up an account, tell them you're from Trinity, and select 'member' when asked what your role is. Having verified your email you'll be able to 'create a group' on the PTW homepage and can then select 'The Practicing the Way Course' to get started. Please do let us know if you have any issues along the way.

We understand that every Discipleship Group is unique and so expect that we will journey through this course together at different paces and in different ways - in fact we encourage you to be as creative as you can to make it work in your context! However, we are asking that all our Discipleship Groups begin the course before October.

ATTENDANCE

In order to make sure that our Discipleship Groups are serving our whole church family as best as they can we are asking that you take an attendance for your first, last and mid-term gathering. We’ve made this as simple and easy as possible by setting an email reminder for you each time you need to submit an attendance with simple instructions on it - it should take you less than 2 minutes! If you want to find out more read this article.

our three core practices

EAT

Eating together is one of the ways that we practice family together in Discipleship Groups. As you share food together, we encourage you to re-centre your hearts and invite Jesus into the midst of the meal using a piece of liturgy. Please find some example prayers you could use on page 16 of the Leader’s Handbook (find below).

SHARE

Sharing our lives with one another and learning together from the Way of Jesus are key ways that we grow in discipleship. For Autumn Term 2025, the main way that this will take shape will be through the Practicing the Way Course.

PRAY

Turning our attention outwards towards our neighbours, streets and city is a key way in which we engage missionally through our Discipleship Groups. As well as joining in with Trinity’s simple daily prayer practices, we encourage you to spend time each week praying for the needs of the church, city and world.

LEADERS’ HANDBOOK

For more information on our core practices, what it means to be a group leader and more read our Leader’s Handbook here, which includes a guide for the first four weeks of your Discipleship Group.

TRINITY KEY LEADERS’ GATHERING

Once a term we gather together our Trinity Leader’s for a night of food, sharing and input from Jonny & Amy. Our next gathering is on 12th Nov from 7pm-9pm - sign up below!

SOUL CARE

While many of you are gifted in supporting and pastoring your Group, this is a responsibility and honour we share together. If you feel that a group member would benefit from some more targeted pastoral support, you can suggest that they get in touch with Soul Care, Trinity’s pastoral care team. They can make a self-referral via this link.

We would also find it really helpful if you could get in touch with us via the same form. That way, we can create as full a picture of the situation as we can to help us respond in the best way.

SAFEGUARDING

We ask that all leaders complete the Church of England Basic Awareness 2024 safeguarding course which can be done here: CofE Safeguarding. Once you have done the course, please send your certificate to groups@trinitychurchnottingham.org.

If you have any safeguarding concerns that come up in your group, no matter how small, please don’t hesitate to pass them on to one of the team. Luke Meadows is the parish safeguarding officer for adults at Trinity and will log or action your concern as appropriate, but any one of the safeguarding team would be more than happy to help.