Turn your DGroup into a mission team.

Weekend intensive: all eight sessions across Friday evening and Saturday. Multi-week: one or two sessions per DGroup meeting over several weeks.

Pray over and personally invite participants. Read each workbook session ahead of time, rehearse discussion questions, gather workbooks, pens, Bibles, and AV, and arrange a co-facilitator where helpful.

Ask everyone to arrive on time and silence phones. Protect confidentiality, don’t record personal sharing, listen respectfully, and avoid judgment.

Welcome → Talk About It → Apply It → Pray It. A typical flow: 10 min welcome, 30–40 min discussion, 10 min application, 10 min prayer.

Keep confession private. Overcoming Strongholds should be led only by someone experienced and prepared, or alongside a seasoned leader or staff member. Know the pastor/care referral pathway beforehand.

Baptism is voluntary and should be coordinated with church leadership in advance.

Personally contact each participant, connect them to a DGroup and GLC Level 1, record decisions and baptism follow-through, report outcomes, and prayerfully identify a possible future host.

Combine Sessions 1–2, use the Oikos Map during the break, then combine Sessions 3–4. Preview the video and confirm natural stopping points first.

Recommended for weekly small groups. Each meeting runs about 60–75 minutes with practice immediately after teaching.

Establish why Gospel sharing is every believer’s calling: icebreaker, teaching clip, Harvest Wall activity, ambassador reflection, and a commitment to pray for specific people.

Practice Pray–Care–Share and starting conversations with Ask · Admire · Admit. Build an Oikos Map of family, work/school, neighbors, and friends.

Each participant writes and practices a one-minute testimony using Before → How → After.

Connect the testimony to the Gospel using the Best Decision booklet, practice the transition, use 2×2 role-play, and send participants out with a concrete plan to share.

Use official 2Be1 materials as provided. Content and designs should not be modified.

Two days (stay-out or stay-in) or three days / two nights (stay-in).

Facilitators must be trained, with a maximum of 4 couples per facilitator.

Read the workbook and session guides, confirm dates, venue, and co-facilitators, obtain approvals, open registration, and request official materials early.

Review each session, prepare brief authentic testimonies, confirm worship, food, childcare, workbooks, name tags, and AV, and pray by name for registered couples.

State confidentiality clearly. Keep sharing couple-facing rather than group-facing, never force disclosure, avoid fixing or shaming, and protect private couple-conversation time.

Ask good questions, protect time, and point discussion back to Scripture and Christ. Don’t diagnose, treat, referee, or take sides; refer to pastoral care when needed.

A · Full day — church-wide seminars and retreats. 40-minute sessions (Session 8: 50), about 9½ hours.

B · Two half-days — weekend or Saturday equipping. Sessions 1–5 on Day 1, 6–9 on Day 2; 45-minute sessions (Session 8: 55).

C · Weekly mini-series — home DGroups and small groups. Nine 90-minute meetings (ten if Session 8 is split).

All three cover the same nine sessions. Minute-by-minute timetables are in Part 2 of the Facilitator’s Manual.

Confirm format, venue, dates, and facilitator team. Secure GLC permission for printed workbooks and order or print copies. Review the safeguarding section with every facilitator, then open registration.

Complete the session yourself — paraphrase, answer every question, write your own “I will.” Mark the priority questions, prepare the activity materials, have a short personal story ready (including one failure), and pray for each participant by name. Send a reminder 1–2 days before with a nudge about last week’s action point.

Read It → volunteers read each verse aloud. Paraphrase It → each writes a “My Words” version; 2–3 share. Talk About It → everyone speaks at least once. Point It Out → summarize the teaching after the group shares. Apply It → each writes one SMART “I will…” statement. Share It → each names a specific person to share with this week.

Coach vague goals toward specifics: “I will be more patient” becomes “I will use P-R-A-Y before responding when my son argues about screen time this week.”

Read the group guidelines aloud: confidentiality, listen more and talk less, no fixing, speak for yourself, honor others’ stories, and show up prepared. You are a guide, not a lecturer — go first with honest answers, including a real failure of your own.

Tell non-parents in Session 1 that every principle applies to spiritual children, mentees, siblings, students, and coworkers. Keep language accessible for not-yet-believers. Consider separate men’s and women’s breakouts for Sessions 4 and 8. Over 10 people? Split into subgroups for Talk About It.

In the last 30–35 minutes: review the acronym together, share takeaways, pray over participants as influencers, invite them to join or lead a DGroup or co-facilitate the next cycle, and collect feedback forms.

Days 1–3: thank-you message with the eight principles. Week 1: personal check-in on one “I will.” Week 2: connect interested participants to a DGroup. Week 3: share a testimony in the group chat. Week 4: second check-in and invitation to facilitator training. Day 30: report attendance, testimonies, and feedback.

Position the series as a conversation about success, purpose, work, finances, family, and legacy — topics people already think about. Personal invitations from DGroup members work best.

A home, café, or workplace breakroom can feel easier for first-timers than a church building. Keep it hospitable: food, name tags, and a warm welcome.

Pick a consistent weekly time and assign facilitator, host, AV, hospitality, and follow-up roles before the first meeting.

Review the official workbook and video, prepare one strong opening question, and protect discussion time — people stay when they feel heard.

Let guests ask honest questions. Point back to Scripture and Christ without pressure, and be ready to continue deeper conversations one-on-one.

As the series closes, personally invite participants who aren’t connected to continue in a DGroup or another next-step environment. Consider True Life as a natural next step for seekers.