Exponential Groups ─ Unleashing Your Church's Potential

This book brims with effective strategies for recruiting leaders, connecting members into groups, coaching groups for success, and giving people something to say yes to, even when they have rejected church-wide campaigns previously offered by their churches. Keys to effective, ongoing groups include leadership training, ongoing coaching, appropriate recordkeeping, as well as a sequence of aligned series rather than just a single occasional campaign. This book provides fundamentals that will insure ongoing success—proven principles used effectively in hundreds of churches across North America.

Readers of Exponential Groupswill learn how to connect their “unconnected” members into community, recruit the group leaders needed to connect and grow their congregation, coach group leaders for a sustainable group structure that will serve their church for years to come, understand how to maintain current discipleship strategies, and implement new strategies without alienating their members or derailing their current systems.

Allen White has a BA in Biblical Studies and Missions from Central Bible College, Springfield, MO, an MDiv from the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, and took doctoral courses at Fuller Theological Seminary. He has served as the associate pastor at two churches: New Life Christian Center, Turlock, CA (nondenominational) and Brookwood Church, Simpsonville, SC (Southern Baptist). Allen teaches workshops for various churches and organizations in North America as well as workshops for Saddleback Church’s conferences and Willow Creek – Canada, and is part of the Small Group Network out of Saddleback Church, which has chapters in all 50 states and many other countries.