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Thank you for stepping up to facilitate a Jesus Way Group! We’re grateful for you. To support you, we’ve created group guide resources for your discussions, including options for Students and Kids. These guides are designed to help create safe spaces where we can listen, learn, and grow together—reflecting Jesus’ love and building bridges across our differences.
In this session, we’ll explore what it means to engage at the level of story—shifting from debating opinions to listening to personal experiences. As we listen first and seek to understand, we create space for deeper empathy, connection, and meaningful conversation.
Practice Kindness is about choosing strength under control—using our words, emotions, and influence to build up, not tear down. Following Jesus’ example of compassion and truth, we put kindness into action to help create a more loving, healing world.
Radical Empathy is choosing to understand another person’s story and emotions before responding. It means listening deeply, honoring their humanity, and reflecting Jesus’ compassion—even without agreement.
Labels create distance and division by reducing people to categories instead of seeing them as whole human beings. Breaking the power of labels invites us to see others through dignity, story, and compassion, allowing empathy to grow and deeper connection to form.
Ja’Mell Agustin is a native of Oakland, California. At a young age, she was actively involved in various church outreach and events. Throughout high school, she exercised her gifts by participating in musical events that led her to many opportunities–one of which she was featured in the 2009 film, La Mission, starring Benjamin Bratt. Ja’Mell has worked with children of many ages teaching multicultural music, and has ten years of experience working with children at Lakeshore Children’s Center in Oakland. In her spare time, she enjoys screen time, hiking, cooking meals with her husband and laughing until her face hurts.
In 2014 Ja’Mell graduated from Grambling State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Music and a concentration in Vocal Music Performance. In June of 2021, she graduated with a Masters in Ministry and Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. Ja’Mell has served various churches and Christian organizations in a variety of volunteer and paid positions.
Ja’Mell says, “At this point in my journey, I want to help create spaces that foster spiritual formation and authentic relationships that point to Jesus. God calls us into a relationship with Him and to one another. I’ve been in church my entire life, but I didn’t begin to experience transformation in my heart and mind until I found a faith community that challenged and encouraged me. I believe in order to experience the greatest life possible, we must build significant relationships, celebrate community, and help one another walk with Jesus. If we can remember that each of us is a work in progress, learning day by day to follow Jesus, to love God and people, we’ll be amazed by what He is able to do through us!”
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