If you care about others, you can host Rescue.

Woman smiling as she preps food for a gathering.
The Rescue Project Story Guide on a kitchen table

How it works.

Rescues can take place at kitchen tables, in workplaces, churches, college campuses, high schools, restaurants, and even prisons. We provide the content; you offer a table where people can share a meal, watch a video, and dig into meaningful conversation.

In six easy steps you’ll go from “Could I do this?” to your first session.

The Six Steps

1

Get Started

To get started, you simply need to decide where your Rescue will happen and who to invite.

Rescue in a parish might mean several tables and a team of co-hosts; Rescue in your home might mean gathering eight friends around the dining room table. Everything you need — the videos, guides, and planning resources — is free and ready to go.

2

Watch the Equipping Series & Download the Guide

Unsure how to host a group? The Equipping Series is a set of 30-minute videos showing how the experience works and how to facilitate it well. The Running Rescue Guide is your printed companion for all eight weeks, including session plans, sample schedules, facilitation tips, and week-by-week discussion guidance.

Watch, read, and you'll know what to do before anyone arrives.

3

Pray

Prayer is the lifeblood of The Rescue Project: it shapes how you plan, who you invite, and how you lead. Before you send a single invitation, start asking God what He wants to do through your Rescue… and keep praying all the way through.

4

Register Your Rescue

Registering only takes a few minutes, but its value is essential. It connects you to the wider Rescue community, helps our team support you, and—soon—it will place your group on the map seekers use to find Rescue near them.

5

Recruit & Train Your Team

The size of your team depends on the size of your Rescue. In a parish, you’ll want a coordinator, a session leader to emcee the evenings, a facilitator for each table, and teams for hospitality, meals, worship, and prayer. In a home, you can wear all the hats.
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Whatever the size of your group, the goal is always the same: create a space where every person who walks in knows they’re welcome and their presence matters.

6

Invite

Most people come to Rescue because someone they know invited them. Then again, we’ll give you all the marketing materials you need to get the word out far and wide.

Real stories. Real impact.

We all have the ability to invite people into our homes and love them in a way that is different from how they have been loved before. Real friendships are born from The Rescue Project.
The Rescue Project is uniting our divided parish.
In all my years of serving on a college campus, I've not seen as immediate and as strong a response from a group of college students to a message as I did in The Rescue Project.
The Rescue Project was so easy to run with all your resources. We just trusted the Holy Spirit to do His thing and He did.
The Rescue Project is phenomenal. We need to add this series to the curriculum of every teacher in our archdiocese.
The Rescue Project gave me a repeatable language that I can use in conversations with others that I didn't have before.