When was the last time you stopped to check on the health of your group? How would you even know if your group is healthy? Assessment is essential for growth. It’s true for your personal walk with Christ and for your small group leadership. This tool is designed to help you assess your Community Group’s health based on Saylorville’s 9 Essentials of a Healthy Group. This check-up provides a great framework for personal evaluation and discussion with your group. Take a few minutes to work through this assessment on your own, and then share it with your Co-Leaders, and then with the rest of your group. Don’t forget to develop a few immediate growth plan steps at the end.

Download the Group Health Check-Up here.

At Saylorville, we believe being a member of the local church is very important. It’s about taking ownership. Becoming a member means that you are willing to identify yourself with us – that you want to join us in our vision of making more people more like Jesus in the Des Moines metro and around the world.

Being a member of any community comes with certain responsibilities. We are a family that is intentional about spending time together, serving each other, and caring deeply for each other. Our common purpose motivates us to give of what we’ve been given so that others may benefit as we have.

Membership also has its privileges. While we encourage everyone attending our church to jump right in and begin getting connected, many opportunities are only available to members. Likewise, major decisions that impact the direction of the church are made by our members because they have a great stake in our common future.

To find out more about membership at Saylorville, sign up to attend our next Membership Class here.

We believe that baptism is in outward act that reveals an inward fact. It’s an external expression of an internal reality. Believers’ baptism is a step of obedience for the Christ-follower. If you have group members that aren’t baptized, here are two steps you can take right away to encourage them:

1. Watch Pastor Pat’s teaching on baptism in this excellent message from Matthew 28:19-20.
2. Attend the next Baptism Class at Saylorville Church. Check here for details.

“Your spiritual growth would be much easier if there was just one thing that could help you grow, unlock your spiritual life, or relieve the burden of daily struggle. Just one thing – a magical cure, a one-step process for sanctification, a fail-proof method.”

So, is there one thing?

Check out this encouraging article from Kevin Carson with the Biblical Counseling Coalition.