Start Becoming a Good Samaritan Participant's Guide

start> Becoming a Good Samaritan is a six-session small group Bible study like no other (DVD/digital video sold separately). Prepare to have your eyes opened, your heart stirred, your vision kindled, and your faith focused and invigorated like never before!

Love your neighbor. Change the world… It starts with you, today.

The homeless man wandering your streets. The disenfranchised roaming your neighborhood. The sick and forgotten pushed to the edge of your town. Let’s get to work! In partnership with World Vision, start> Becoming a Good Samaritan is an unprecedented initiative that helps Christians live out Christ’s love in world-changing ways, right now, right where you live.

This experience will help you explore issues like poverty, social injustice, pandemic diseases, the environment – and teach you how to start making a personal, street-level impact today. Inside are discussion questions, radical but commonsense ideas, and personal applications to help you live out your faith in ways that will change the community around you.

Sessions include:

1. Becoming a Good Samaritan
2. Caring for the Sick 
3. Seeking Justice and Reconciliation 
4. Honoring the Poor
5. Tending to God’s Creation 
6. Loving the Forsaken

Designed for use with the Start Becoming a Good Samaritan Video Study (sold separately). In it, you’ll find John Ortberg hosting six emotionally packed sessions featuring Christian leaders like Eugene Peterson, Matthew Sleeth, Jim Cymbala, Chuck Colson, Joni Eareckson Tada, Rob Bell and many others.

Mike Seaton is the founder of a non-profit organization called The Start Project, whose mission is to start a Good Samaritan movement.  You can learn more about start at www.startproject.org. Michael Seaton is also the owner of The C2 Group. For over twenty years The C2 Group has provided strategic communication services for local, regional, and international clients. As the owner, Mike Seaton has channeled his passion to create powerful experiences through storytelling in both the video and web mediums into some of the top selling Christian curriculums available today.

Ashley Wiersma is a freelance writer of spiritual books and curricula. She and her husband and daughter make their home in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.