Start Something New Collection
How to Form an Intercession Team
Ministry should never be done without prayer. This guide will help you engage a team of intercessors for your ministry to help sustain you, protect you, and pray for breakthrough in your ministry.
How to Communicate Your Vision
When God wants to start something new, he gives us vision—a sense of what could be. This resource will help you clarify the vision God is giving you!
How to Reach Your Networks
Who are the partners that God has put you in relationship with? This resource will give a biblical foundation for partnership and will help you create a network map to explore for potential partners.
Anchored in the Holy Spirit
A 5-part guided series where you and your community will learn to respond to the Holy Spirit’s presence and power.
Grow the Movement Planning Worksheet
A worksheet to help you assess the current reality and needs of the ministry and to make plans around developing new leaders and establishing new rhythms of community.
Encounters with Jesus (GIG)
This 5-week God-Investigation Group (GIG) series includes compelling illustrations, guided discussion, and application questions. Each study also has an accompanying leader's guide with community building suggestions, questions for going deeper, and other leadership insights.
Encounters with Jesus Apprenticeship Guide
Do you already love using the Encounters with Jesus Series? Want to apprentice other students to lead simple impactful Bible studies too? This supplemental guide will help you empower an apprentice as you pass off more and more leadership over the course of the 5-week Encounters with Jesus series.
Empower Apprentices
Everything you do on campus with InterVarsity is an opportunity to empower new students! This resource will give you ideas and practical tools to share leadership, develop apprentices, and create a culture of empowerment.
Host a Launch Gathering
A Launch Gathering is a catalytic event that creates space for students to tell their faith stories and for new students to learn what InterVarsity is all about. This two-week guide will lead your group (a small group, a leaders team, or a core team) through the process of preparing, inviting for, and hosting your Launch Gathering.
Multiplying Small Groups
How can a small group increase its impact? By becoming a sending community! Sending people out to create more spaces for their friends to encounter God helps us truly bring the Love of God to every corner of campus. Use Multiplying Small Groups to help students gain vision, receive training, and make invitation plans to launch new small groups.
Partnership Gathering Worksheet
This worksheet will guide you through a series of activities to help you encounter God, identify the gifts that you bring together, and begin to explore your networks.
Getting Started
Finding People of Peace
A video explaining how to identify a person of peace and begin empowering them to reach their friends.
Reaching Out
10 Ways to Reveal God's Love on Campus
A list of ideas for demonstrating the generosity and love of God in tangible ways on your campus.
Mobilize Students With the Call to Mission Bible Study
This short Bible study on Matthew 9:35-38 can help you and other interested students discern God's invitation and think through your connections on campus.