Gandhi Series: In-home Spiritual Study Groups Kit
Seven Week Course

How to use this kit:

All materials are in .pdf format except those marked with an * which are formatted in Word so that you can edit and insert your own information.

Set-up materials for the series

Time Line – a schedule to help you in preparing the series

Newsletter article* – announces the coming seven-week series (format into your newsletter)

Bibliography

In-Home Study Group Materials

• Note to Ministers – An important note about the in-home study groups
• Facilitator’s guide for in-home study groups (print out and distribute to facilitators)
• Signup sheet for in-home study group facilitators* (Add in the series dates and the date, time, and day for facilitator training.)
• Signup sheet for in-home study group* (Add in the series dates. Make a separate sheet for each study group putting in the host’s name, phone and e-mail, the meeting day and time the meeting place and address, directions to the meeting place.)

Materials for each week

• Sunday bulletin* (Fill in with your own order of worship and contact information. Put in the series dates. Print on paper corresponding to the color of the week.)
• Affirmation card (print on colored 8 ½ x 11” card stock corresponding to the color of the week; cut the cards apart; insert one into each Sunday bulletin)
• Information sheet about the seven-week series* (Add your church name. If you will be holding an end of event gala, put its date, otherwise cut out the last sentence. Print it on Sunday bulletin-type paper. It is formatted with two on each sheet; cut them apart; insert them in the Sunday bulletins.
• In-home study guide questions with notes for discussion (Print out and give to facilitators and study group participants.)
• Sermon  – Transcriptions of the sermons given during the seven-week series at Unity of the Valley by Baine Palmer on October 3, 17, 24, 31, November 7, 14th; and by Arun Gandhi on October 10th 1999.

Week One: Gandhi The Man

• Color for the week: Purple
• Sunday Bulletin* (Inside and Outside)
• Affirmation card (Print on lavender card stock)
• Information Sheet*
• In-Home Study Group Guide
• Sermon

Week Two: Ahimsa, Nonviolence

• Color for the week: Pink
• Sunday Bulletin* (Inside and Outside)
• Affirmation card (Print on light pink card stock)
• Information Sheet*
• In-Home Study Group Guide
• Sermon

Week Three: Satyagraha, Soul-Force

• Color for the week: Orange
• Sunday Bulletin* (Inside and Outside)
• Affirmation card (Print on salmon card stock)
• Information Sheet*
• In-Home Study Group Guide
• Sermon

Week Four: Yield And Prevail

• Color for the week: Green
• Sunday Bulletin* (Inside and Outside)
• Affirmation card (Print on light green card stock)
• Information Sheet*
• In-Home Study Group Guide
• Sermon

Week Five: Out Of The Ego Cage

• Color for the week: Red
• *Sunday Bulletin (Inside and Outside)
• Affirmation card (Print on dark pink card stock)
• Information Sheet*
• In-Home Study Group Guide
• Sermon

Week Six: The Steady Mind

• Color for the week: Blue
• Sunday Bulletin* (Inside and Outside)
• Affirmation card (Print on light blue card stock)
• Information Sheet*
• In-Home Study Group Guide
• Sermon

Week Seven: The Illumined Soul

• Color for the week: Yellow-gold
• Sunday Bulletin* (Inside and Outside)
• Affirmation card (Print on yellow card stock)
• Information Sheet*
• In-Home Study Group Guide
• Sermon

*Formatted in Microsoft Word so that you can edit and insert your own information