Study in a church group setting is about encountering God, our faith, ourselves, and one another. Preparing for this time as a leader is as important as the time itself. This teaching tool helps leaders learn how to rethink their responsibility in order to be nurtured even as the leader of the group.
Elizabeth F. Caldwell is a noted Christian educator and best-selling author or editor of many books for adults and children, including Waiting: Spending Advent with the Psalms; Pause: Spending Lent with the Psalms; God's Big Plan, with Theodore Hiebert; and Growing in God's Love: A Story Bible, with Carol Wehrheim. She is Harold Blake Walker Professor Emerita of Pastoral Theology at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, former Visiting Professor in Religious Education at Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, and a member of the Common English Bible Editorial Board. Elizabeth F. Caldwell is a noted Christian educator. She is Professor Emerita of Pastoral Theology at McCormick Theological Seminary and former Visiting Professor in Religious Education at Vanderbilt Divinity School. She was a member of the Common English Bible Editorial Board. She is the author of Pause: Spending Lent with the Psalms, coauthor of God's Big Plan, and coeditor of Growing in God's Love: A Story Bible.