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.

SPRING 2026

Discipleship Groups take shape around three core practices of eat, share and pray. This term at Trinity our Discipleship Groups will be starting the new year by continuing to go going deeper in our relationships and discerning God-sized-dream’s together, before jumping into some new content for the season of Lent through to Easter (starts Wed 18th Feb). Please find a week-by-week plan below and note that if your group meets bi-weekly to please prioritise weeks 1, 3 and 5.

  1. Week 1 – Check-In Post Christmas
    Group Discussion: How was your Christmas? How are you doing?
    Introduce Next Week: As we look forward to this new year, we’ll explore the idea of asking God for a God-sized dream. After hearing from Him, we’ll also ask what the first step is that we can take to start seeing that dream become a reality.
    Prep for Next Week: Encourage everyone to spend time in prayer, asking God for a God-sized dream and the first step they can take toward it.

  2. Week 2 – Share God-sized Dreams and Pray
    Group Activity: Pray together and ask God for a God-sized dream. Encourage everyone to listen and leave enough space for them to hear from God. After people have heard from God, encourage them to ask him what the first step they can take in seeing the dream become a reality.
    Sharing & Prayer: Have half of the group share what they’ve heard from God. After each person shares, encourage the group to pray for them. We'll do the same thing next week too.

  3. Week 3 – Share God-sized Dreams and Pray
    Group Activity:     Pray together and ask God for a God-sized dream. Encourage everyone to listen and leave enough space for them to hear from God. After people have heard from God, encourage them to ask him what the first step they can take in seeing the dream become a reality.
    Share & Pray: Have the other half of the group share what they’ve heard. Pray for each person after they share.
    For Next Week: Ask everyone to TRY something this week and come next week ready to share their stories -- both success and failures.

  4. Week 4 – Share Try Stories
    Group Activity: Give everyone a chance to share stories about a TRY from the week. Celebrate successes and failures!
    For Next Week: Next week we're going to pray for one another. You might want to ask God to give you a word, picture, or dream for someone in the group. Take note of it and bring it to bless them with next week.

  5. Week 5 – Practice Praying for Individuals
    Group Activity: Take turns inviting individuals to receive prayer. Encourage everyone in your group to gather around them and bless them. It might be help to model simple blessings like "In Jesus' name I bless you with joy."
    For Next Week: Plan a social event or activity as a group. You could go out for a meal, go bowling, attend a pub quiz, or anything else that would be fun.

  6. Week 6 – Social & Fun
    Group Activity: Do something fun together as a group.

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 Spring Term 2026, we will kick off the new year by going deeper in our relationships together before jumping into some new content for the season of Lent through to Easter.

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.

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.

KEY DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

We would love to invite you to our Discipleship Group Leaders’ Retreat Day on Sat 7th Feb 9-3pm at St Wilfrid’s Church, Wilford. This will be a significant annual moment for you to be poured into as a key leader at Trinity, where you will be equipped and encouraged as we share our heart and vision for Discipleship Groups. This is not one to miss - sign up below!

SIGN UP HERE

Please also note our termly Trinity Leaders’ Gathering gathering happening on Wed 11th Jan 7-9pm which is a broader invite to those who lead across the life of Trinity in different ways for a night of food, sharing and input from Jonny & Amy.

Sign up here

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.