Go Groups
For Churches and Faith-Driven Entrepreneurs
Jesus told us to go . This is how to go.
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Go Groups bundle—it’s the biblically based class that’s helped millions take action on their purpose applying entrepreneur, business, and innovation tools together.
Go Groups Small Group Bundle
$997
What you get:
A proven framework to take action together and build a movement
Engage entrepreneurs, business owners, and innovators
Live leader support calls
12 interactive video lessons
10 Faith in Action Guidebooks and platform access
FREE - Go Groups Leader Guide and Premium IJ Member Access for the Leader ($300 value)
Access to global entrepreneur projects in 30+ countries
Opportunities for IJ trips and access to business projects for your church
10 Printed Guide Books
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1 Printed Leader Guide
What this is.
The Go Groups x Faith in Action series combines faith-based small group curriculum and community impact by applying entrepreneurial principles. Participants work together on a shared mission-minded venture or focus on their individual ventures. Participants work together for 6 - 12 weeks to take action - start or scale a business, launch a community or city movement, and serve more people with your God-given passion, purpose, and calling.
Why this matters.
Why should you live like 80% or more of your life (work, business, career) is disconnected from your God-purpose? Connect each participant’s God-given passion, purpose, calling, talents and gifts to multiply their impact in the Kingdom of God (Matthew 25, Parable of the Talents). Work as a group to get outside of the four walls and be the church in the community. Move beyond one-time food banks, clothing drives, or community initiatives that may hurt the people we serve. Provide a runway for more sustainable community impact and ignite the entrepreneurial, creative, and innovative passion of members in your congregation.
How this works.
Each of the 12 Go Groups sessions include a Scripture-based discussion, lesson video by Philip Harding connecting faith and impact, and ends with participants sharing feedback on completed projects. Participants move from just talking or dreaming to taking action with real people. Jesus said to go. (Matthew 28) This is how to go. An optional community impact event at the end of the series offers an opportunity to invite community leaders, government officials, and partners to participate in the story. Participants can then go to their next level, start their own Go Group, and live out their passion, purpose, and calling.
Participant Guidebook
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Leader Guidebook
What participants are saying.
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“We did something we hadn’t done before, and it really helped broaden our horizons.”
— Adam Hunley, Global Director for over 50,000 churches
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“This has given a voice to the people we serve. How many things have we done in the name of helping that may not have been helpful.”
— Sarah Brooks, Pastor and community leader in Detroit
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“I want to help inner city people overcome poverty through the gospel and reach their full potential because I’ve lived in poverty in the inner city before and overcame through the truth of the gospel.”
— Will Washington, Pastor in Washington DC
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“I want to help individuals with special needs and their families to feel supported and have purpose, because I've seen how often they are overlooked and not reached.”
— Allison Williams, Regional Lead for special needs and disabilities ministry
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Impact Junkie is about helping you address sophisticated, I should say complex problems with sophisticated methods. It's thoughtful, and thoughtful isn't easy. To be thoughtful is to love. To really consider people is what Impact Junkie calls us to do… and that is to love. ”
— Pastor Aaron Soto, Wisconsin
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“It’s real. It’s genuine. And it’s God.”
— Latoya, Detroit entrepreneur and business owner
Frequent questions
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This means you are going to the next level on your journey by empowering others on their journey. You will recruit a group ready to scale up their purpose with entrepreneurship and facilitate 12 sessions with them over at least 90 days. You will receive a leader guide with all the prompts and discussion questions for each session.
You do not need previous experience or expertise. Every time you run a Go Group it gets better. You will play the videos and guide a discussion with prompts in the Leader Guide. Going through Impact Junkie Base Camp would help you understand the framework, but is not required.
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You get access to ongoing support sessions with Philip, other IJ guides, and other Go Group leaders. These will be conducted through regular calls and online group video sessions.
Other leaders have said these are the most valuable and rewarding sessions for their own purpose, business, and life work.
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No! You just need to have a heart for bringing people together to live out their purpose. You are not teaching the concepts, but facilitating group meetings with feedback and discussion. You will have guide and video for each session. Being an expert coach or teacher wouldn’t hurt of course, but is not necessary.
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Each session is designed to be one hour with a video and discussion questions to guid group the conversation and demo days.
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You can. Once you join, you have access to be part of other Go Group sessions guided by other IJ mentors. You will also have leader sessions each month. The majority of Go Group leaders have started their first group with no prior experience. The framework is designed so you can go through and facilitate the group your first time. Every time you go, you can focus on a shared project or individual ventures depending on the group choice.
About Philip Harding and Team
Philip Harding is co-founder of Impact Junkie. Philip's life has been deeply intertwined with social entrepreneurship, innovation, ministry, and youth participation. He served as senior advisor at the Pentagon and White House, and is an international speaker and guide with the US State Department, government and private sector leaders. He is also faculty at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches the innovation courses based on the IJ framework, and mentor to Harvard students and alumni at the Harvard Innovation Labs. philipharding.com
As a minister, he has served as associate pastor and led efforts with churches across the globe. As a first-generation college graduate, he completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Harvard University, was elected university-wide student president, and gave the commencement speech in Harvard Yard in front of over 30,000. He has guided national and global efforts for over 2 million participants in over 30 countries and 6 languages. He has worked as a consultant with pastors and faith leaders tackling big challenges such as launching mission centers in urban communities. As a result, pastors began requesting his work be applied to creating a discipleship program for churches.
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Philip is an impact and faith-driven entrepreneur, investor, international speaker, and has worked with change makers at over 20 universities and in the jungles of Central America. In the last year, over 6,000 completed his innovation and impact programs in five languages. He is global speaker, facilitator, and executive coach on innovation and impact-driven entrepreneurship.
He is requested to work with government leaders, the US State Department, leaders of large investment funds, and international organizations. He designed and teaches a masters-level required course on innovation and problem-solving as a member of the faculty at Johns Hopkins University. He has been a judge for Startup Istanbul, Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, a mentor at the Harvard Innovation Lab, and keynote speaker at innovation and impact investment events from Uzbekistan and Indonesia to Guatemala and the United Arab Emirates.
While serving as youth pastor in California with his family, he felt a strong call to government, public service, education, and entrepreneurship.
After home school for high school, he went on to complete three degrees in Applied Art and Design, Computer Information Systems, and Business at Sierra College - and completed advanced certifications at Stanford University.
He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Harvard University and Harvard Kennedy School with a focus on bringing private solutions to the world’s biggest public problems. He was the first distance student ever elected a Harvard student president - first elected while living in California over 3,000 miles away - and was later elected Harvard university-wide student president. In 2014, he was selected to deliver the graduate commencement speech about divine destiny and “going to serve the world with passion” with an audience of over 30,000 in Harvard Yard.
He served as a Legislative Fellow in US Congress, and at graduation, was selected as a Presidential Fellow.
In the US Federal Government, he served as senior advisor for innovation and government modernization, from the White House to the Pentagon, on $80 billion in transformation projects. He helped scale the Presidential Innovation Fellows and launched The Great Pitch, which invested over $16 million in good-for-government ideas, now US government’s internal “Venture Capital” arm.
Philip is helping entrepreneurs, investors, government leaders, pastors, and other leaders solve the biggest, hairiest, most audacious problems in the world as co-founder and CEO of IMPACTJUNKIE.
IMPACTJUNKIE empowers adventurous doers to “go change some lives today” through creative impact projects, investment deals, and support with a global network of entrepreneurs and investors. With over 100+ IMPACTJUNKIE projects focused on entrepreneurship and innovation education on every continent, thousands of Impact Junkies around the world are working to change lives together.
Philip, Harvard University commencement
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