<P><B>What do we mean when we talk about small groups? </B></P><P>And more importantly: what do we expect to happen when people gather in this way? The small group that wrote this book-made up of current and former campus ministry professionals with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship-sees a small group as: a community that studies the Bible prays and participates in God's mission together for the purposes of God's transforming work. </P><P>Small groups are about transformation and in this book transformation is given flesh and blood in the faces and names of the people you lead.</P>