First steps-ways to get your group going -- Questions to help you promote your group -- Agendas for small group meetings -- Small group child-care solutions -- Practical ways to make every meeting count -- Do's and don'ts for your first meeting -- First meeting fellowship ideas -- First meeting devotional ideas -- Easy warm-ups -- Meaningful wrap-ups -- Approaches to group prayer -- Questions to help you stay spiritually focused -- Fine art-ways to keep your group going strong -- Ways to decide what your group will study -- Guidelines for developing a group covenant -- Items to consider including in a group covenant -- Basic ways to deal with problems in your group -- Specific problems and ways to deal with them -- Roles to get group members more involved -- Tools every leader needs -- Great ways to welcome new members -- Best endings for small groups -- Ways to gauge if it's time to end your group -- Steps to take when you know it's time to go -- Shake up-easy ways to breathe energy into a stagnant group -- Ideas for places to meet -- Fun small group activities -- Small group movie nights -- Deep and wide-ways to get to know each other better -- Practical ways to show you care -- Ways to live out "one-anothers" -- Questions to deepen group relationships -- Ways to encourage each other outside of meetings -- Digging deeper-fresh ways to foster spiritual growth -- Creative ways to approach Bible study -- Guidelines for group prayer -- Ways to make group prayer more meaningful -- Things your small group can pray for -- Practical ways to live out what you've learned -- Ideas for small group worship times -- Ways to make communion more meaningful -- Great escapes-when your group needs to depart from the ordinary -- Ready-to-go special occasion Bible studies -- One-day retreats for small groups -- Take care-ways to serve beyond your group -- Basics for small group outreach -- Questions to prepare your group for outreach -- Principles for planning a small group outreach -- Outreach opportunities within your church -- Ways to serve your community (and sometimes beyond) -- Exceptional and distinctive-ideas for leading specialty groups -- Tips for seniors' groups -- Questions about intergenerational and family small groups -- Basics for creating free-market small groups -- Principles for men's small groups -- Ways small groups can meet the needs of women -- Tips for leading singles' small groups.