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Tonight we’re launching our school year-long small groups program in our High School Ministry – the mission is that it would fulfill the primary purpose of fellowship and secondary purpose of discipleship. We want people to connect in relationship, centered around life and biblical teaching. Tonight is essentially a “getting to know you” with some fun elements thrown into the mix. Here’s the three big changes (here’s all of the posts that mention ’small groups’ if you’re interested, too )we’re launching tonight and tomorrow night:
Leader dinner – instead of a separate monthly meeting time or another scheduled time of training, we’re meeting a little early each week for dinner, training, encouragement, vision and prayer for about 45 minutes before small groups start. I’m counting on this being a big win in developing a TEAM.
Online attendance - instead of not knowing the pulse of our small group attendance, we’re introducing churchteams.com to the team. It sends out an email to the small group leaders, and all they have to do is check “yes, we met” and put a checkbox by the students that attended. They can drop in notes as well that will be sent to their group, coach and/or the SG team.
Meeting in The Refinery for the first 10 weeks – well go back to meeting in homes soon, but for now we’re meeting in different spots all over the new building. We’ll start with a short time of welcome, announcements and large group teaching, then quickly jump into the groups.
Here we go!
JG
Kind of ironic b/c we’ve been slowly moving away from the weekly dinner. We used to have it weekly, then went monthly, and then scratched it all together. It used to be a big hit, but we had fewer and fewer leaders coming. Even when we put a lot of effort into training. We also had parents providing the meal, which eventually got annoying for them.
I’m sure that for you it will be a big hit because it’s a new thing. I hope it continues to go swimmingly!
Exactly … things come in cycles … in a couple of years, I’ll be blogging about a monthly meeting, or sending training out on DVD again, right?
JG