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

Thank you so much for leading a Discipleship Group at Trinity. We encourage all of our groups to take a break over August.

In the meantime, if there’s anything you’d like to chat about please email us at groups@trinitychurchnottingham.org

KEY DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Join Jonny & Amy for for an evening of food & sharing at the next Trinity Leaders’ Gathering happening on Wed 3rd Nov 7-9pm.

This is a gathering for those who lead across the life of Trinity in different ways.

We hope to see you there!

Sign up here

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 FOUR 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 Lent 2026, we will have a short Scripture exercise for you to engage with each week.

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 one another and the needs of the church, city and world.

TRY

Here at Trinity, we think that faith means trying! As we continue to build a culture of TRY at Trinity we are asking you to (1) share TRY stories every week, and (2) regularly make space for the prophetic by all praying for someone specific (e.g. the ‘Mush Pot’).

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.

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.