Online Christian Community

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Live Second Groups

Change has come. The coronavirus situation has forced us out of our normal routines. You can’t go to your church buildings on Sunday mornings. You can’t meet at the local coffee shop for a Bible study. So what do you do? How can you maintain your Christian communities in these uncertain times? We can help!

e3 has created an online Christian community strategy that we refer to as “Live Second Groups”. These groups can help you maintain and even further your Christian community. We provide you with content and coaching to continue growing as Christ followers in the midst of the current coronavirus situation. And it’s all FREE! Continue learning from the Bible, developing strong spiritual disciplines, and remaining attentive to the needs of others around you.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

How it Works

e3 utilizes virtual meeting technology and an obedience-based discussion and discovery Bible study known as “3/3rds” to establish Live Second Groups. You can learn more about 3/3rds here. If you are unsure of how to set up online meetings or how to lead a Bible study using the 3/3rds pattern, no problem! We’ll walk you through how to do everything. We have dozens of coaches ready and eager to serve you.

WHAT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH A LIVE SECOND GROUP?

What You’ll Accomplish

God is using Live Second Groups to equip the church, to deepen our relationship with Him, and to engage more people who are searching for hope and peace in their lives.

When you start or join a Live Second Group, we provide you with a “Live Second Game Plan” that walks you through the 3/3rds Bible study pattern and 10 weeks of Bible stories to study. We also provide you with a FREE coordinator who will model what it looks like to organize and lead a Live Second Group and assist you with anything else you may need.

You can download the Live Second Game Plan here

WHO SHOULD BE A PART OF A LIVE SECOND GROUP?

Who to Invite

Group leaders can start with friends and family. If you already have small groups from church, you can start there too! Then invite others from your “Oikos” as well. Think of people in your sphere of influence — those close to you who are far from God. People are searching for hope right now. They’re more open to the gospel. Inviting them to your Live Second Group could be a great way to share the love and hope of Christ with them!

WHAT WILL BE LEARNED?

What You’ll Learn

As mentioned above, the Live Second Game Plan walks you through 10 weeks of Bible stories using the 3/3rds Bible study pattern. Throughout the course of the 10 weeks, you’ll learn about many of the commands Christ gives us as His followers, and simple tools to help you with those commands. You’ll grow in obedience and boldness for Christ and in confidence to share the Good News with others. Some of the tools you’ll learn include:

15-Second Testimony

A simple way to share your testimony with someone in just 15-seconds.

3-Circles Gospel Sharing Tool

A method of sharing the gospel that is both easy to learn and understand.

Church Circle

The functions of a healthy church as is shown to us in Acts 2:36-47.

You can learn more about these tools and find lots of other helpful tools and resources all for FREE on our training page.

WHO IS e3 PARTNERS?

e3 Partners

Equip God’s People. Evangelize His World. Establish His Church.

e3 Partners exists to make the local church accessible to every person, everywhere. We started in 1987 with short-term trips to Mexico, and over the last 32 years, God’s grown the ministry, expanded our vision, and used our teams to do some incredible things for His Kingdom. Last year alone, we helped plant over 60,000 new churches!

We want to help you reach those far from God and build up the body of Christ, because like you, we have a burden for the lost—for reaching them with the hope and love of Jesus. We believe Jesus is the hope of the world and this hope can be found in the expression of the gospel through the local church. You can learn more about our ministry here.

WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING ABOUT LIVE SECOND GROUPS?

Testimonials

“We’ve been training our church to facilitate Live Second groups and in just two weeks we have seen new and deeper level of relationships as people connected in a new format online.”

— Peter

“In this time when we haven’t been able to hang out with our friends, Live Second Groups have provided opportunities to check in on one another and introduce friends to the hope of Christ through simple Bible discovery discussions.”

— Sarah

“The online training has helped during the COVID-19 crisis. Our weekly training has provided clear vision for how we can continue to make disciples even through the temporary suspension of church meetings. I can’t wait to see where the Lord leads us the rest of this year.”

— Kevin

Testimonials

WHERE DO I START?

Get started by filling out the form below to connect with our Live Second Team

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Since September of 2011, God has really been moving in my life. He has taken me from a Christian who was on a roller coaster ride through life and transformed me into a true follower of Christ. He has brought a new perspective to my understanding of what He has put me in this world to do. His word has come alive and I realize what “The Great Commission” really means. I also know what it means, now, to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. I just want to take a few moments to tell you some of the things God has done.

In my home town of Forest City, North Carolina, God pulled me out of a life where I was aimlessly searching for anything to fill that void in my life to an understanding that He is all I need. He showed me that my purpose for being here was to love Him with all my heart, to love my neighbor as myself and to GO and make disciples. As I began to understand this, I also started digging deeper into His word and falling more in love with Him. As my love for Him grew, so did my love for people (my neighbors). As my love for people grew, so did my desire to make disciples. You see, it all goes hand in hand.

God has allowed me the privilege to personally lead over 30 people to Christ since December of 2012 and over 60 people have received Christ as a result of this. This has happened because someone took the time to train and disciple me in a very simple, reproducing process. I have been busy over the past 3 years sharing with and training people to do this same process. This has happened through prayer walking, disciple making groups in homes and doing trainings in different states throughout the US. As a result of God’s call on my life, I have joined a Church Planting organization known as e3 Partners and I am Second. Joining this mission organization classifies me as a United States Missionary.

In February of 2014, God’s call on my life has brought me to Austin, Texas for 12 months. I am continuing to make reproducing disciples here in Austin as a part of a ministry team in this area. My efforts here also include prayer walking, looking for people and houses of peace, disciple making groups in homes, and doing reproducing discipleship trainings.

I would love to invite you to join my ministry team. God has no doubt called me into this field and it would be a great privilege to have you join me. Please pray for me as I follow God’s call on my life, join me in the harvest field as we go out and search for these people in whom God is already at work, and be a part of my financial support team as I continue to serve God as a full time US Missionary. I will include the information needed for you to join the ministry team.

You can continue to see updates from me in the form of a newsletter monthly(If you want to receive my newsletter, send me your email or physical address). Please continue to pray for me and how you can be a part of this ministry!!!

For more information on me and how you can be involved, please visit: www.e3partners.org/ClintHarrill, email me at clint.harrill@e3partners.org or call/text at (828)748-1172

Contributions can be made directly on my fundraiser page or mailed to:
e3PARTNERS 2001 W. Plano Parkway Suite 2600 Plano, TX 75075 with Clint Harrill #637 in the memo line

Running Around like crazy, but back in NC since November 15, 2014.

Posted a week ago

Shortly after returning to North Carolina, God blessed me with a "tent making" opportunity, but I had to go to Canada to do it!! I spent almost 2 months there working construction in a hospital. It was hard work but definitely a blessing.
From February 17-23 I had the opportunity to go to Stuart, Florida for an e3USA retreat and that was refreshing. We rolled out a Level 1 training for some of the newer folks on the team and we got to spend time out in the harvest sharing the gospel and loving on people.....my favorite!!
As I'm trying to get settled back in, God has shown me many things and is giving me clarity on His purpose for my life here in North Carolina and beyond. I had a chance to go to San Antonio to the George Strait team roping.....It was a lot of fun and I was blessed to be able to do that, but I doubled it as an opportunity to connect with a couple who are awesome mentors in my life and learned so much from them. I also had a chance to reconnect with a lot of the folks that I worked with in Austin in the form of a gathering at one of their homes on that Saturday evening. It was a very productive trip and it was so exciting to see how God is still using those folks in Austin. Praise God!!
Since getting back, I've been continuing to do some "tent making" as well as continuing to work towards getting to 100% support. I'm scheduling appointments and trying to be efficient with my time. We have a training planned here in Forest City on March 27-28. It will be an L1 training on Friday and then prayer walking on Saturday. God is also beginning to give me more opportunities to travel to other areas to co-labor and train. Please be in prayer as I travel to Nashville for 3-4 weeks, leaving Mach 31 and then I fly to Sacramento, CA on May 4th to spend 2 weeks in the harvest and training there.
I am so thankful for God's divine appointments and giving me these opportunities to train here in my home town and the blessing to go to other places. As these opportunities come up more often, please pray about how God wants you to be involved. I covet your prayers, encourage you to reach out to people in your own communities and pray about partnering with me financially so that I can continue to go wherever the Lord calls me.

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