Discipleship group leaders’ hub

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 where you, as leaders, can find all the information you will need to lead your group.

October Content

Week 2 — KNOWING OUR ENEMY

This week, we started a new series called Spiritual Warfare, based on Ephesians 6:10-12. Throughout this series, we will provide discussion questions to help your group reflect on what you heard in the preach and apply it to everyday life.

  • What stood out to you, or what did you sense God speaking to you about from the preach?

  • Where are you partnering with fear? In his preach, Jonny spoke about how the enemy uses fear as one of his primary strategies. Take sometime as a group to explore this together.

    • Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal where you are partnering with fear.

    • Take a few minutes in silence to listen to God.

    • Then give people an opportunity to share with the group. There is power in bringing our fears into the light by confessing them to others.

    • Ask Jesus to fill you with his perfect love. “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” 1 John 4:18

  • What’s one thing you’d like God to do in or through you in this series on spiritual warfare?

Just a reminder to conclude your group by praying for the people you wrote down last week who you want to see come to know Jesus.

Week 1 — MISSION

Who are the people we know and love who don't yet know Jesus?

Following Invitation Sunday, we're going to spend some time as a group praying for people in our lives who don't yet know Jesus — friends, family, colleagues, neighbours and others.

Why? Because God encourages us to ask, prayer is powerful, and it makes a difference.

Start by welcoming the Holy Spirit and asking, “Who would you like us to pray for?”

Spend some time together in quiet, listening to God.

As a group, share who has come to mind, and write their names down. Then pray for each person by name.

We'd encourage your group to keep the sheet of paper and commit to briefly praying for these people by name at the end of each time you gather over the coming year. We are believing we will see these people come to faith.

LEADERS’ HANDBOOK

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

Leaders' handbook

KEY DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

The next Trinity Leaders’ Gathering is Tuesday the 3rd of November

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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.

PASTORAL 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 Trinity’s Pastoral Care team. There are two options:

PASTORAL PRAYER

Our pastoral prayer team can meet with you 2 or 3 times over a few months. They will listen and pray with you. This is helpful if something in your life is significantly affecting your relationship with God and others. In these conversations and prayer times we hope to stand with you to bring this before God and see Him work.

To request pastoral prayer please complete this form

ENCOUNTER PRAYER

This is a one-hour prayer session with two people who will guide you as you meet with Jesus. Encounter prayer is often helpful if there’s a memory, thought pattern, or belief that is holding you back. Many people find new freedom and healing during this time.

To request encounter prayer please complete this form

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.