The Being Challenge focuses on Jesus' habits. As Pastor Zach Zehnder examined all that Jesus said to His disciples, he found five principles most important to Jesus: Being, Forgiving, Serving, Giving, and Going. Though all five of the targets in Red Letter Challenge are important, the most important target to hit as a disciple of Jesus is BEING in relationship with Him. It’s at the center of it all. All the other targets flow from this one. All of our doing for God flows out of our being with Him. If we don’t hit this one, we won’t succeed at any of the others. We believe that helping people BE will lead to incredible spiritual growth for the people in your church. For more about the RLC, go to this this link.

By having pre-made, quality small group study guides and videos, and following our promotion plan, we believe that your church will see significant growth in your small groups. Churches that participated in the RLC and followed our promotion/distribution plan see an average of more than 40% increase in small groups. One church even grew by 500%. Smaller churches that didn’t have small groups used RLC to launch their small groups, and even large churches saw growth many times over 40%.

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We suggest a 4-week lead-in time with the books at your site. We have a promotional video you can use in our graphics package and will be happy to assist you in launching the RLC in your setting. Churches that order 50 or more copies find it very beneficial to schedule a FREE 30-minute phone call with author Zach Zehnder. Inquire here to schedule a time to talk with Zach.

These are the 5 best times we've seen to launch a 40-day church campaign.

1. Beginning of Year: You can promote heavily in December and at Christmas and build some serious momentum in the new year.
2. 40 Days prior to Easter: Many churches will encourage people to give up something for the 40 days of Lent. We love this practice, but also, we've seen many churches encourage their people not just to give up something, but to start something new as well. There is nothing better to start than putting the words of Jesus into practice!
3. 40 Days after Easter: You can promote heavily at Easter and really give your church something exciting to come back to the next week. Usually a church will have 6-8 weeks left after Easter while families are still in school and this can provide some great momentum going into the summer months.
4. Summer: While most churches decrease in attendance in summer months, the RLC is a great opportunity to start the summer with a jump, not a slump!
5. Fall: Weekly worship attendance is normally at its strongest in the Fall. Why not start the fall with a powerful 40-day church discipleship challenge? We encourage a start time any time after the school session is back and encourage churches to wrap up by Thanksgiving.

We believe that children and youth can and do have what it takes to put the words of Jesus and the principles of BC into practice. In the past, we’ve seen student ministries (both middle and high school) interact very well with the RLC workbook and the small group components as well. BC is a challenge in its practice, but not in its content. It is written in a simple-to-understand way that youth and adults can both understand.

We’ve created a kids resource page HERE that has kids curriculum, graphics, and extra resources to be used on Sunday mornings for your kid’s ministry so that the kids are learning the same main principles as the adults. We have also written a companion BC Kids workbook that targets K-5th grade. It mirrors the themes and days of the BC workbook, but is written specifically with a K-5th audience in mind. Therefore, the devotions and the challenges are more kid-friendly. Also, based on how children best learn, there is an incredible narrative woven throughout the book to help kids engage with the principles of BC even more. Because of its nature to challenge children, we do highly suggest parent involvement, no matter if it’s a 1st grader or a 5th grader.

Zach does offer a limited number of Sundays to help churches kickoff their BC campaign. Additionally, he has presented RLC workshops to churches as well on kickoff weekends. Fill out the Speaker Request Form with some needed information on our end and our team will get back to you.

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