Hawkins identifies practices that help cultivate Christian community in small groups: listening, dialogue, discernment, covenant making, prayer and reflection, and hospitality. Recommended for accountable groups, covenant groups, service and support groups, study groups, and administrative groups.

Faithful Leadership
In 6 easy-to-read chapters, Faithful Leadership addresses the absence of genuine Christian leadership that many churches are experiencing today. For Hawkins, this absence is an invitation to discover new forms of leadership through which God may empower the church's ministries. Addressing the current crisis in the church will take leaders who can lead with power, but power tempered with the biblical example of servanthood. Servant leadership doesn't just "happen"; nor is it problem-free. Hawkins not only teaches the biblical and sociological principles of servant leadership, but also provides valuable practical advice about how to balance advocacy within inquiry and what to do when conflict arises within the group. Questions at the end of each chapter make this book ideal for small group study. Designed for both laity and clergy.

Lay Speakers Are Servant Leaders
In this advanced course, Hawkins addresses the formation of principles and models of servant leadership, and their practical application in the decision-making contexts of local congregations. The purpose of the course is: (1) To develop an understanding of servant leadership and the types of power that occur between leaders and followers; (2) To acquire the tools and skills necessary for servant leadership; (3) To increase one's capacity to deal with differences and to handle the conflict that is inevitable when people collaborate. Required text: Faithful Leadership by Thomas R. Hawkins.

Lay Speakers Lead Small Groups

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Hawkins helps lay speakers identify the roles they play as leaders of small groups and helps them understand the power their leadership can have in transforming Christian lives. Required text: The Christian Small Group Leader by Thomas Hawkins.

The Christian Small-Group Leader
Grounded in Scripture and the Wesleyan tradition, The Christian Small-Group Leader blends knowledge about the dynamics of small groups with our call to form disciples. Leaders of all types of small groups will find both inspiration and practical help to carry out their ministry.

Lay Speakers Cultivate Christian Community
Lay speakers will discover what it means to live as Christian disciples in the groups they lead and to work with others to help them grow and nurture caring connections and relationships that reflect the love of Christ. Basic text for this advanced course: Cultivating Christian Community.

Faithful Guides

"Earlier in my own ministry, I believed that effectively doing my pastoral tasks — preaching, teaching, and managing church programs — was the measure of my success as a spiritual leader," writes a pastor quoted in Faithful Guides. "Then one day I realized my task was to multiply leadership through developing the potential of other leaders. Coaching has given me both the theory and the tools to develop the spiritual leaders around me."

Coaches are trained to guide others toward greater competence. Good ones help you learn from experiences so you're more reflective and self-aware in your practice of ministry. They can help you stay focused on the goals you want to achieve.

Hawkins aptly demystifies the concept of spiritual coaching in Faithful Guides. He explains how it's…

• easier than you think
• deeply rooted in the Bible and in church traditions
• an essential strategy for personal and organizational transformation
• different from other helping relationships like consultants, therapists or teachers
• crucial to equip the church to fulfill Jesus' great commission