Group Leader Resources

As a group leader, you play a vital role in helping people grow in their faith and community. This resource page is designed to support you every step of the way.
We’re building this resource hub for you! Keep checking back as new tools and materials are added regularly.

Group Leader Responsibilities

Online Resources

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Current Message Series
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Planning Center Groups

2 Ways to Manage Your Group

Planning Center Groups helps you manage your members, plan events, take attendance, and share resources. As a group leader, you can do most of your group management from Church Center, but you’ll need to do some leader tasks from the administrator side of Groups.

Church Center

From the Church Center app or web, you can add members to your group, send emails, create events, take attendance, view reports, and view/moderate group messaging. 
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You must be logged in to Church Center to manage your groups.
What task are you trying to accomplish? Refer to these guides as you get more familiar with Church Center:

The Administrator Page

Aside from messaging, everything you can accomplish in Church Center has an administrator page equivalent.
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The first time you log in, you might need to set a password, depending on if you have previously created a password for one of the other Planning Center products.
In addition to the Church Center options, the administrator pages host reports and group settings. The following guides walk you through your leader tasks on the Groups administrator pages:

Leader | Tools for Leaders in Church Center (Events, Resources, Members) - Groups

Leader | Use the Church Center App - Groups

Leader | Create Events in Church Center - Groups

Leader | Resources in Church Center - Groups

Leader | Take Attendance in Church Center - Groups

Leader | Members and Requests in Church Center - Groups

Group FAQs

It is a group of three or more people who meet regularly to participate in authentic community and group discipleship. What happens in a Group? Community happens. In a Group you will catch up on life together, pray for each other, engage in God's Word, and support each other through life.
Each semester, groups meet for 6 or 12 weeks and can meet in a lot of different places. Whatever works best for you, is what works! Some meet at in homes, online, on campus, restaurants, and even golf courses.
Each semester some groups start while others end. Some meet for a short period, while others have been together for decades! In the end, it is all about what you and your group decide.
Yes. Between each Semester (Fall, Soring and Summer) groups take breaks..
That is up to your Groupleadership.. We have seen groups pull money together to hire a babysitter or rotate parents to watch the kids in another room. We think your kids will benefit from watching their parents invest in healthy community.