Content for the Week

Notes for the Leader

Assignments For the Group

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· Bonding!

After bonding, give each person in your group a copy of Transferable Concept #3 and assign it for the week.

· Read Transferable Concept #3

· Read Transferable Concept #4

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· Discuss Transferable Concept #3

· Teach How to Spend a ½ day with the Lord

Use the “self study guide” and “ group discussion questions” in the back of Transferable Concept #3 to guide your discussion.  Then teach your group how to spend a half day with the Lord.  Before leaving, give them a copy of “Don’t Waste Your Life”

· Read Chap 1 of Don’t Waste Your Life

· Schedule ½ day with the Lord

· Begin everyday with “Spiritual Breathing”

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· Discuss Don’t Waste Your Life – Chapter 1

· Pray “Confess and Bless” activity

Use the Leader’s Guide for “Don’t Waste Your Life” for good discussion questions.  It is very lengthy so you will need to glance through and choose the questions you want to use---and ditch the rest.  Then take time to do “Confess and Bless” prayer activity. 

· Read Chap 2 of Don’t Waste Your Life

· In Partners do a Campus Prayer Walk

4

· Discuss Don’t Waste Your Life – Chapter 2

· Pray “Confess and Bless” activity

After discussing Don’t Waste Your Life, again do “Confess and Bless” prayer activity. 

· Read Chap 3 of Don’t Waste Your Life

5

· Discuss Don’t Waste Your Life  – Chapter 3

· Pray “Confess and Bless” activity

· Discuss Purity

After discussing Don’t Waste Your Life, again do “Confess and Bless” prayer activity.  Then take time to teach through sexual purity.  Be open and honest with sin and invite others to do the same. 

· Read Chap 4 of Don’t Waste Your Life

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· Discuss Don’t Waste Your Life – Chapter 4

· Pray “Confess and Bless” activity

· Purity (Men’s Groups), Beauty (Women’s Groups)

The beginning part of this week will look similar to the previous ones.  However, during the last ½ of the group take time to go deeper into purity (for the men) and deeper into the struggle to be beautiful (for the women). 

· Read Chap 5 of Don’t Waste Your Life

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· Discuss Don’t Waste your life – Chapter 5

· 15 Day Xperiment

After discussing Don’t Waste Your Life, challenge each person to begin a 15 day Xperiment in which they share the gospel with 1 person each day for the next 15 days.  

· Share the gospel with 1 person each day this week (7 total people)

Content for the Week

Notes for the Leader

Assignments For the Group

8

· Read How to Use Cru.Comm

· Teach the Small Group Planning Tool

· Continue on with 15 Day Xperiment

This is the week where things get exciting. From here on, each person in your group will have a chance to lead 45 minutes of a small group bible study---this will help them practice and get ready to lead in the future.  Teach them to use the Cru.Comm bible study guides and the small group planning tool.  Then assign each of them 1 week to lead small group for the next 5 weeks.  Their content is the 5 Mission Impossible Cru.Comm studies.  Make sure each person in your group knows which week they are leading.   

· Read Chap 6 of Don’t Waste Your Life

· Share the gospel with 1 persona each day this week (7 total people)

· Begin to prepare your small group lesson using the small group planning grid.  Be prepared to lead during your week. 

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· Discuss Don’t Waste Your Life  – Chapter 6

· Mission Impossible #1 (Genesis 12)-led by your groupie

· Small Group Leadership Feedback

You lead the discussion on “Don’t Waste Your Life” for about 30-45 minutes.  Then turn the group over to whoever signed up to lead Mission Impossible Week 1 – let them lead!  At the end take time to give the new leader feedback on their leadership---have the group tell them 10 things they did awesome, and then you give the new leader 1 area they can grow in in the future as it relates to leading a small group.  

· Read Chap 7 of Don’t Waste Your Life

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· Discuss Don’t Waste Your Life  – Chapter 7

· Mission Impossible #2 (Jonah 1-4)–led by your groupie

· Small Group Leadership Feedback

See box above for instructions

· Read Chap 8 of Don’t Waste Your Life

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· Discuss Don’t Waste Your Life  – Chapter 8

· Mission Impossible #3 (Mark 11) – led by your groupie

· Small Group Leadership Feedback

See box above for instructions

· Read Chap 9 of Don’t Waste Your Life

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· Discuss Don’t Waste Your Life  – Chapter 9

· Mission Impossible #4 (Acts) – led by your groupie

· Small Group Leadership Feedback

See box above for instructions

· Read Chap 10 of Don’t Waste Your Life

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· Don’t Waste Your Life – Chapter 10

· Mission Impossible #5 (Rev 7) – led by your groupie

· Small Group Leadership Feedback

See box above for instructions.  Before leaving have each person in your group choose a book to read for the summer.  Help them order it cheap on Amazon.com

· Select one book from the summer reading suggestions list and read it this summer

Book

Author

Topic

Calvary Road

Roy Hession

Desire to thirst for Christ and truly be filled?  This books for you.

God: Discover His Character

Bill Bright

Knowing God accurately---as he truly is. 

Fireseeds of Spiritual Awakening

Dan Hayes

Prayer, Revival and God moving powerfully on campus.