The Manna Church Growth Track is a series of Small Groups designed to facilitate your growth as a healthy, effective follower of Jesus Christ. Wherever you are in your journey, the Growth Track can equip you to experience more fully your calling in God and your part in impacting your world. Come grow in your faith, grow in your purpose, grow in your influence! If you are new to the Growth Track, begin with FirstStep!
Next Step will help you find your place in Manna Church. You’ll discover Who we are, Why we are, Where we’re going, and What part you play in getting there.
LeaderStep is for anyone who feels called to be a leader at Manna Church. We’ll dive deep into what makes us who we are and help you discover how God can use you to change your world right now. (Prerequisite: Membership/NextStep)
The Manna Church Growth Track is designed to facilitate your growth as a healthy, effective follower of Jesus Christ. Wherever you are in your journey, the Growth Track can equip you to experience more fully your calling in God and your part in impacting your world.
Growth Track is a series of small groups that each last 4 or 8 weeks:
FirstStep (4 weeks): Manna’s 3 Values and the 9 healthy habits for a vibrant relationship with God and for discipling others
NextStep (4 weeks): the Manna mission to advance the kingdom of God
LeaderStep (8 weeks): Manna’s 12 operational principles + biblical keys to everyday leadership
We encourage all Manna members, particularly if you are interested in leading a small group, to do the entire Growth Track, starting with FirstStep.
Our best small group leaders are people who can intentionally help others live out our 3 values and our 9 healthy habits (FirstStep), embrace our Manna mission to advance the kingdom of God (NextStep), and influence others with our culture and values (LeaderStep).
Official Completion Policy:
FirstStep and NextStep: attend at least 3 of the 4 group meetings (make up a missed meeting by talking 1:1 with your leader)
LeaderStep: attend at least 6 of the 8 sessions (make up a missed meeting by talking 1:1 with your leader)
The way we do Growth Track at Manna is through a 4-week* small group experience where members actively participate each week.
It’s part content, part group interaction. We believe so much in the value of this experience that completing an official Growth Track small group is the only way to get “credit” for the experience (it’s required if you want to lead a small group at Manna). And although we happily share videos about the Growth Track content, those don’t count as “doing Growth Track.”
As we say at Manna, life change happens in a small group (one of the principles in LeaderStep), and we proudly embody this value in Growth Track. We embrace God’s design that growth is not a solo project.
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*FirstStep and NextStep are 4 weeks each; LeaderStep is 8 weeks
Requirements for leading a small group at Manna:
Completion of NextStep
Completion of the Manna membership application process
Completion of LeaderStep (requires completion of previous two items before starting)
Approval of site leadership
We encourage all, but especially those interested in leading a small group, to do the entire Growth Track, starting with FirstStep.
Our best small group leaders are people who can intentionally help others live out our 3 values and our 9 healthy habits (FirstStep), embrace our Manna mission to advance the kingdom of God (NextStep), and influence others with our culture and values (LeaderStep).
Email your site Growth Track Coordinator:
flwgrowthtrack@manna.church
