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To go with the book Across the Street and Around the World
Reach the nations near you—together. Simple, interactive, and do-able, with the time commitment of a regular small group, each group participant just needs one of the free step-by-step 6-week or 13-week free GUIDES—and your own copy of the book Across the Street and Around the World.
All You Need to DO a Missional Small Group
If you want a small group that DOES SOMETHING, is different every week, taps into the creative side, and where you don't even need a facilitator—try choosing one of the Six-Week or Thirteen-Week free Group Guides, grabbing a few friends and a copy of the book Across the Street and Around the World.
Here's how it works.
✅ You gather a few friends to read one chapter of Across the Street and Around the World each week.
✅ You each download a free Six-Week or Thirteen-Week Small Group Guide.
✅ EVERYONE in the group PRINTS THE GUIDE and brings it a weekly group time. You don't even need a facilitator. Just follow the GUIDE step by step every time you meet. There's food involved, it's FUN, with a different plan every week, with group interaction built in, and you DO STUFF.
Six Weeks: Across the Street
For those of you wanting to reach out to the nations near you, resettled refugees, international students, immigrants and asylum seekers. This group encourages you to make spiritually deep friendships with people from different countries, right where you live.
This creative, interactive 1 1/2 hour group time covers the first five chapters of the book, the Across the Street section. This guide is perfect for the whole church to try. You’ll learn to find people from other countries in your city, enter their culture well, disciple them, and offer Jesus in a winsome way.
Six Weeks: Around the World
For those of you who want to be inspired to consider a purposeful career living overseas, doing meaningful work, and offering Jesus to those in other cultures who have the least opportunity to hear.
With a like-minded group of potential long-term “goers”, the group walks through the last four chapters of the book. You will count the costs, explore ideas, ask the questions, and get healthy enough to consider asking God the question, “God, will you send me to live in a spiritually strategic country?”
Thirteen Weeks: Across the Street and Around the World
Walk through the whole book step-by-step in a creative, structured format that’s easy to follow…and includes food! This is planned around a two-hour (or so) format. But it’s flexible too. Take what you like and adapt what doesn’t work for your situation.
Also, if you would prefer to do the book in twelve weeks instead of thirteen, you'll find suggestions for combining weeks.
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A note from Jeannie Marie:
I'm thrilled you are reading Across the Street and Around the World—and now want to DO the book with others. That's why I wrote this book. So you could DO it.
My heart is that the three billion people without access to Jesus will get a CHANCE to enter the Kingdom of God—because YOU knew how to invite them in.
Reading Across the Street and Around the World as a small group is for for believers who want to love other cultures right where they live but don’t know how to start—or move forward into something more.
There are a few ways small groups can read, discuss and DO the book.
FIRST, just use the book! At the end of each chapter, you’ll find Reflection Questions to discuss. In the back of the book, use the Small Group Plan, and the Bible Reading List to add a Bible study component to the discussion.
Use the supplemental videos to show for each chapter if you wish, and run the group how you prefer in an hour-long group time or book club format.
SECOND use one of the free Small Group Guides (a Six Week version and a Three-Month version). The creative, interactive, community format encourages the group to experience most aspects of missional community at an introductory level with the same time commitment as the average church small group. This includes eating together, praying in creative ways, and interacting with scripture and the chapter in a different way each week. The Guides are meant to be given to each group member so everyone knows what’s happening next, and the facilitator just has to keep things moving.
I want to stay connected with you too, so here's to YOU, and to the nations near you!
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