“Leadership teams” for a small group of believers

A few weeks ago I sent some ideas about forming a leadership team of students who will take ownership of giving direction to the local student movement.  I also mentioned that I know that some of you are students at universities where there are just a few students who are trusting God to bring the gospel to their campus.  The idea of having a number of students to choose leaders from is not realistic in their situation.  They may only know of 1 or 2 other believers on their entire campus.

If this describes your campus, then here is a ‘leadership team’ idea more suitable for your situation.  Even if this doesn’t describe your situation, keep reading because G3s work when there are few believers involved or when there are many believers involved!

This small team is called a “Group of 3”, or a “G3”.  Keoke King and the San Francisco Metro Team gave thought to the question of “what is the smallest group of people that can still have the dynamics of discipleship and growth?”  The answer they came up with was “three.”  Thus, the idea of “Groups of 3” was born.  This video gives an overview of the G# group or, click here if you prefer to read an article.  

Ultimately a G3 consists of 2-3 people who meet together about once a week for the purpose of prayer for their campus, sharing what they are learning from the Bible from their times with God and for some ‘mini-strategizing’ for sharing the gospel with students at their school.  It is basically a time of prayer, “Bible study” and planning all done in one small 1-1 /2 hour meeting.  This is good for those of you with few believers around and with few people to share the responsibilities of preparing a prayer meeting and a Bible study.

G3s are perfect for places where there are only a few believers.   It’s a good place to start.  But the ultimate goal is to have tens and even hundreds of G3’s on one campus (this is what we would classify as a real “movement” for God!).  What kind of effect do you think God could have through you if there was a G3 in every study group on campus?  What if every corridor of every floor of every dorm at your campus had a G3 where students were praying for their campus, sharing what God is teaching them and planning on ways to tell others about the greatest news that they would ever hear?!  Can you imagine the effect believers on fire for Christ could have who are gathered in G3s everywhere on one campus?  Just think of what God could do through you!

WINTER BIBLE CONFERENCE:

The location for this year’s Winter Bible Conference will be in Krasnoyarsk!  I will send you more details in a few weeks, but I wanted to let you know so that you can start praying for God to provide the finances for you and a group of your friends to travel to sunny Siberia.  The cost of transportation will be higher than usual for many of you, but thank goodness that God is not going through the same financial crisis that the rest of the world is going through!  He is more than able to provide for you to get to the WBC.

As a poor student I always had to trust God to provide money for me to go to conferences and summer projects and He always provided.  Most of the time He provided the financial support I needed through the people I asked to sponsor me.   Check out for more helpful information on raising support for conferences.  This information is also very helpful for you to trust God in raising the funds needed for your campus movement.