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ChristCare Series
Downloadable Resources
You have permission to download these resources and photocopy them to build support for ChristCare Small Group Ministry in your congregation or organization. (These items are all in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.)
What Pastors Are Saying about the ChristCare Series.
Insights from pastors who share how ChristCare Group Ministry has strengthened their own ministry and benefited their congregation.
Why Use the ChristCare Series?
This document describes 12 powerful benefits the ChristCare Series brings to congregations looking to do effective small group ministry.
Growing in Faith with Others; Reaching Out in Faith to Others.
In this Q&A interview, a ChristCare pastor describes the powerful ways ChristCare Groups have transformed his congregation.
ChristCare Groups Bring Multiple Blessings to Youth.
An interview with an Equipper and Director of Youth Ministry who describes how ChristCare Groups have transformed her congregation's youth ministry.
ChristCare: A Key Strategy for Ministry.
Expand your vision for the ministry that can happen in and through ChristCare Groups by reading this Q&A interview with a ChristCare pastor.
A Simple Man Sharing God’s Word in Biblical Equipping.
Learn about Biblical Equipping from the perspective of a ChristCare Group member who has felt his life changed through these regular encounters with God’s Word.
Biblical Equipping Overview and Sample.
Learn more about Biblical Equipping--the eight-step approach ChristCare Group members use to encounter God’s Word and make it part of their daily lives. Included is a sample Biblical Equipping session from a ChristCare congregation.
ChristCare Series Implementation Timeline.
This two-sided 11x17 document will help you develop a preliminary timeline for beginning ChristCare Group Ministry in your congregation--from the time your congregation enrolls to when your first class of ChristCare Group Leaders form their initial groups.
ChristCare Series Budget Planner.
Walks you through the start-up costs associated with enrolling in the ChristCare Series, sending participants to an Equipper’s Training Course, and training ChristCare Group Leaders in the congregation. A great resource for helping your congregation plan a budget for beginning ChristCare Group Ministry.
Additional Ways Congregations
Might Fund the ChristCare Series.
This document describes a number of creative ways congregations have raised funds to begin Stephen Ministry. These same ideas could be used to finance the startup costs for beginning ChristCare Group Ministry.
Q&A: Answers to the Most Frequently Asked
Questions about the ChristCare Series.
Two easy-to-read pages that will answer most of the basic questions people have about ChristCare Group Ministry.
ChristCare Groups in Times of Tragedy.
Read how Equippers at one congregation organized special ChristCare Groups to allow grieving members of the congregation and community to experience healing and care following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
ChristCare Groups Teach Prayer, Study, Service.
A reprint of an article from the ELCA Summer 2001 Action Packet. In it, a ChristCare pastor describes the way ChristCare Groups have added a new depth of caring, discipleship, and outreach to her congregation.
ChristCare and Stephen Ministry in the Same Congregation.
An article about a congregation that is using both ChristCare Group Ministry and Stephen Ministry together in a very powerful way.
How the Stephen Series and ChristCare Series
Can Work Together in the Same Congregation.
This 24-page booklet explains how congregations can use both the Stephen Series system of lay caring ministry and the ChristCare Series system of small group ministry. When used in tandem, these ministries provide great coverage for a congregation, enabling it to more effectively provide one-to-one caregiving for individuals in crisis (the Stephen Series) as well as community experiences in small groups for many members (the ChristCare Series). Together these ministries are a powerful expression of Christ’s love in a congregation.