From experience I have learned that taking on new leaders because someone else recommends them does not work. More than once I have been charged with apprentices/co-leaders/whatever you wan to call them and turns out usually that they were being given to me because someone else didn’t want them.
It has always worked best for someone [...]

Some things are better ‘caught’ than ‘taught’… and some things can only be caught!
When serving in program-based churches we used a leadership preparation strategy that was called ‘pre-service training’ (catchy, huh!). We looked into the tasks required to fulfill the demands of a certain job description and put those tasks together in what seemed like [...]

I wish I had an answer but we’ve not had the multiplying small groups thing really in any formal sense. Discipleship pairs / tiny groups have grown and multiplied, mostly through making things as simple and transferable as possible and by taking a personal interest in communicating to those demonstrating influence the desire to remove [...]

The only way we have found new facilitators that have continued long term is by apprenticing someone in a group and multiplying. Almost everyone we have brought in from the outside struggles with their group and have never and I mean never reproduced.
The worst thing we have done to find leaders is making a [...]