• Community building and care. A ChristCare Group becomes a safe, nurturing place where group members can share their joys and sorrows, support one another in daily life, care for and be cared for, and encourage one another in their Christian walk.

• Biblical Equipping. ChristCare Group members follow an 8-step cycle of hearing, discussing, reflecting upon, and living the Scriptures - not only when they are together as a group, but between group meetings. Biblical Equipping becomes life-transforming as group members apply God's truths to their daily lives.

• Prayer and worship. ChristCare Group members grow in their ability to pray and worship God-both individually and as a group. Each group explores ways to pray and worship together that meet the needs and comfort levels of its members.

• Missional service. After experiencing God's love in the group, ChristCare Group members find specific ways to reach out with God's love to those outside the group. In doing so, ChristCare Groups typically meet a variety of needs in a congregation and community.

Every ChristCare Group does all four activities. However, ChristCare Groups may emphasize some activities more than others, depending on their mission and stage of development. For example, a discipleship group may spend the majority of time on Biblical Equipping. A new member assimilation group may spend more time on community building and care. A prayer-emphasis group may devote the majority of its time to prayer and worship. And a group formed around a specific missional outreach may spend more time on missional service than on the other three activities.

Whatever the main emphasis of a group, group members grow as disciples of Jesus as they use each of these four activities to reach up to God and out to others.