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Getting better at sharing your faith isn’t about learning high-pressure tactics, memorizing a script, or forcing yourself to approach complete strangers. Most often, everyday evangelism is simply about:

• Learning to listen intentionally to the people around you.

• Asking open-ended questions that naturally invite deeper conversation.

• Authentically sharing how the gospel is actively changing your daily life.

• Pacing alongside the friends, family, and coworkers you already know.

If you focus on these simple shifts, you will naturally find yourself stepping into more—and far more comfortable—faith conversations.

Free Evangelism Tools to Help You Start

Start to Stir is here to support you at every stage of your journey. Depending on what you need, explore our practical resources:

• Looking for simple faith-starting questions? Download our free 20 Questions Tool to confidently break the ice.

• Wanting to learn together with your church or small group? Check out our video-based Small Group Evangelism Study.

• Need inspiration to spark curiosity in an indifferent culture? Watch our Soul Stirrer Videos to learn how to meet people exactly where they are starting when it comes to faith.

Most church leaders are looking for a practical, low-pressure, ready-to-use tool that addresses the specific cultural reality your lay people face every day. Many traditional evangelism studies (like Becoming a Contagious Christian or Talking Jesus) suggest approaches that are often best suited to reach people who already understand church culture. To truly equip lay people today, training must build confidence to reach those who have absolutely no church background.

The Start to Stir Small Group Evangelism Study bridges this exact gap. It is an eight-session video series that is ready-to-use and comes complete with group discussion questions and downloadable workbooks for leaders and participants. The gentle approach presented in the videos will help your people overcome fear and get into natural faith conversations with the spiritually curious, the ‘spiritual but not religious,’ and the spiritually indifferent.

Start to Stir believes we need to rethink where we start when sharing the gospel in secular cultures. Many Christians want to share their faith but don't feel confident because they don't know where to start and are uncomfortable with scripted approaches to evangelism. We encourage Christians to start where people are—listening to their questions, experiences, longings and spiritual curiosity. We help Christians recognise these “signposts” and use them as natural starting points for conversations that can lead towards God, Jesus and the gospel.

Sharing the gospel in schools requires capturing short attention spans quickly and engaging students who are largely secular or indifferent to faith. Instead of using high-pressure public invitations, the most effective approach is to invite students to freely explore spirituality and the Christian faith. This respectful method also beautifully supports the school’s own goals for religious education and personal development.

The ideal tool for this is short, sharp video content. The Christian charity Start to Stir has created Soul Stirrers—a free series of 15 videos on YouTube designed exactly for these environments. Each low-prep video lasts under five minutes and includes one or two tailored discussion questions to effortlessly spark curiosity and meaningful conversation.

While popular options like the Alpha Course and Christianity Explored are great for active seekers, The Stir Course (created by the Christian charity Start to Stir) is specifically designed as the perfect faith exploration course for people with no church background.

Delivered as a low-prep, video-based resource, it is built around a series of small group discussions specifically designed for the spiritually open or spiritually indifferent. By focusing on lived experience rather than heavy information, this safe, low-pressure approach creates a level playing field. It is an ideal, gentle tool to get faith conversations started and introduce people to a life-changing encounter with Jesus.

For churches looking to engage individuals completely outside the church, The Stir Course is a highly effective, low-prep faith exploration course. Positioned perfectly as a "pre-Alpha" outreach tool, it is specifically designed to help your church overcome the relevancy barrier when trying to connect with those who are spiritually open, or those living in a secular, spiritually indifferent culture.

Unlike traditional courses that require a baseline of biblical knowledge, this small group video series prioritises lived experience over dense theology. It creates an accessible, level playing field where leaders can easily get faith conversations started with the spiritually curious. It serves as the ideal cultural stepping stone in your evangelism strategy, creating a safe space for participants to ask big questions about life and God before moving them seamlessly into deeper discipleship programmes.

Before launch tasks like advertising, finding a meeting space, and organizing refreshments, consider running a "pre-Alpha" course. This provides a gentle on-ramp for non-believers with no church background who might be easily turned off by traditional church language.

Created by the Christian charity Start to Stir, The Stir Course is a low-prep, video-based tool that serves as the perfect stepping stone to the Alpha Course. It levels the playing field through a series of small group discussions and experiences explicitly designed to stimulate spiritual curiosity among the spiritually open and indifferent.

While The Stir Course has been birthed out of the youth ministry sector, it is written for all ages and can work in a variety of contexts.

The Stir Course can be run with as few as two or three people or adapted for larger groups such as an assembly or RE class. The optimal group size without having to adapt any of the sessions is somewhere between 5 and 20 people.

Only the leader needs to purchase the Stir Course.

We suggest you do the packs in this order:

Pack 1: Discover Your Soul – These longings or desires shows we are spiritual

Pack 2: Connect With God – When we Connect to God, we experience this benefit

Pack 3: Encounter Jesus – Because Jesus was Fully One with God, he…

Pack 4: Live Full Life – An invitation to make Jesus your Leader and Forgiver

We do want to get there, however, if people are not yet interested in knowing God, the gospel doesn't really sound like good news yet. It just sounds like information. Read more about this in article 2 of the Beginners Guide to Stirring.

We are careful to define the word 'spiritual' in the very first session. When we use the word 'spiritual' we simply mean every human has a spirit or soul and possesses longings that reveal our soul in action.

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Start to Stir's Small Group Evangelism Study is practical evangelism training that helps Christians learn how to start natural faith conversations with the people they already know. It equips ordinary Christians to notice spiritual curiosity, understand where people are starting from, and take simple steps towards meaningful conversations about faith and Jesus.

Start to Stir offers an alternative to high-pressure, presentation-based evangelism training. Rather than teaching Christians to approach strangers or deliver a rehearsed gospel presentation, it focuses on helping people start genuine conversations with people they already know—listening well, recognising spiritual curiosity and finding natural opportunities to talk about faith.

The Small Group Evangelism Study is for Christians, churches, youth leaders and small groups who want to become more confident and natural at sharing their faith. It is particularly helpful for people who want to reach friends, family, colleagues and young people who may have little interest in church or Christianity.

Start to Stir believes we need to rethink where we start when sharing the gospel in secular cultures. Many Christians want to share their faith but don't feel confident because they don't know where to start and are uncomfortable with scripted approaches to evangelism. We encourage Christians to start where people are—listening to their questions, experiences, longings and spiritual curiosity. We help Christians recognise these “signposts” and use them as natural starting points for conversations that can lead towards God, Jesus and the gospel.

Learners who have completed the series say they found new confidence and new anticipation for sharing faith, instead of feeling guilty for not doing it.

When you purchase the course you get access to all the videos.

You can run it as an eight-week Intro Series with your small group or church.

Alternatively you can watch all 24 short videos in the series at your own pace.

Once you purchase the series, you will receive an e-mail with a link to login into myStir where you can access the videos. You will want to make sure you have a reliable internet connection to play the videos.

If you have purchased access to the Stir Video Training Course and are having trouble accessing the videos, please contact us at [email protected].

At purchase you will receive access to downloadable PDF Leader and Participant Guides that you can share and print.

If you have purchased a small group or church-wide license you will be directed to login into MyStir and create a team on the training page (usually your church or organisation's name). By adding the names and e-mail addresses of each person you wish to give access to, our system will send an e-mail invitation into their inbox.

If you, or anyone on your team, are having trouble accessing the videos please let us know at [email protected].

We love learners! You can:

Run our Small Group Evangelism Study for eight sessions with your team or small group.

Download our free 20 Questions Tool to help get conversations started.

Read and share our Beginner’s Guide to Stirring Souls.

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It will help us as a non-profit Charity to create new, innovative tools that can help Christians across the world share their faith!

Make plans to run The Stir Course as an outreach to non-Christians.

Or, invite the Stir Team to your church or organisation to think about an overall plan for mission that includes equipping Christians to share faith, outreach programmes and services and running the Stir Course. We can help!