Emergency Response Handbook for Small Group Leaders  

If you like the idea of giving your group leaders a useful resource, then I’d like to recommend this book.  Basically, this book takes on major issues a group may face over time and presents helpful ways of handling it.  (Divorce, death, addictions, conflict, depression, etc…)  Each chapter starts with a problem, offers a narrative about the issue, gives some counseling and care advice, tells you when to refer someone to outside help, gives you helpful scriptures, tells you what to and what not to say and gives the leader and the group some ideas about how to help the person who is dealing with this issue.

 I’m going to start by getting a copy for each of my Community Leaders and then give them as gifts to my leaders in the future. Ssshhhhh…. don’t tell them I told you!