Small Group Circles of Awesomeness

on October 21st, 2008

Size does matter with small groups. This week Ryanne put together a visual representation of our individual small groups on the office wall.

The GREAT paper is all of the groups with up to 8 people in them – we love this wall because our groups have the right number of students in them to be in what we believe is ideal community. The OK paper isn’t ideal, but they have a veteran leader with maybe a few extra students. Many of these groups have been together for a while and have grown some but not too big for real care and fellowship. Then there’s the NOT SO GREAT list – the leaders are all awesome, but the group size is just too big. We’ll be updating this chart in real-time throughout the Fall as we divide up some groups, add others and continually manage the care of our students. 

JG

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trav at 6:22am October 22

I don’t know your context exactly. Are your groups designed for growth? How do newer students plug in?
My experience has been that having groups designed to grow and then split is superior to having them not being allowed to grow. It is harder because you have to add workers midstream and sometimes dividing them doesn’t work and you might have to recombine. Our growth comes from students bringing their friends or plugging in students that go to the same school.
Sounds like you have some good ‘problems’ to work through…

trav at 7:04am October 23

Thanks Josh. Good luck with your small groups!