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11 Ways to Welcome a New Person into Your Small Group
There is nothing quite like feeling that you are welcome. And that’s exactly what you want a new person to experience. Here are eleven action steps that you can take to help make sure this happens.
Coaching Using the G.R.O.W. Model
Coaching others doesn’t mean you need to have the answer to every question. In fact, you should be asking most of the questions and having the person you are coaching answer them! The G.R.O.W. model* is a question-based conversation framework for helping you coach others so that they can set their own goals and move toward achieving them.
Creating S.M.A.R.T. Goals
Just because we have a goal doesn’t mean that we will achieve it. Many goals are never achieved simply because they are sloppy. How can we clean up our goals and help others to do the same? By making what is commonly known as S.M.A.R.T. goals.
3 Articles on Membership and Church Discipline
9Marks has written three helpful articles that help establish some of the basics regarding church membership and church discipline.
Life Maps
As a group is learning to get to know one another, it is a great opportunity to have those in the group share their life stories. One method for sharing life stories is by using a Life Map.
How to Invite Your Small Group into Church Membership
Any Christian who calls College Park Church their church family should become a member of our church. If you have people in your group who are not members of the church, how do you encourage them to join?
Firing A Small Group Member
From time to time, a Small Group may experience someone who clearly does not emulate a ”covenant” mentality and does not hold Small Group as a priority. Helping this member may include their exit from the group.
20 Small Group Prayer Ideas
Curious about how to integrate prayer into the life of your Small Group? Here are twenty ideas.
Soul Care
Tree Diagram for Getting at Heart Issues
As we seek to get at the heart motivations of those in our group, the following Tree Diagram helps show how our behavior is connected to our thoughts and our desires.
Sample Questions for Being Intentionally Invasive
As we become intentionally invasive in one another’s lives, the following questions can help us progress from everyday conversations to deeper more extreme spiritual conversations.
How Levels of Care Change the Game
Some people may have the vision of Small Group to simply meet every two weeks and not actually find out what’s going on in each other’s lives beyond the gathering. But that’s not a biblical approach. The body of believers in the New Testament church were active in coming alongside and speaking the truth in love to one another, and we are to be no different.
Equip Night Material
Did You Miss “Life Balance as a Leader”?
During our recent Small Group Leader Equip Night on Tuesday October 15, we featured the topic: “Life Balance as a Leader.” We spent time covering four realms for life balance as a leader—spheres, rhythms, and postures. And we closed answering the question, “What do I do when I fail?”
Did You Miss ‘Conflict’?
During our recent Coach Equip Night on Tuesday September 3, we featured the topic: “Conflict.”
We spent time covering eight principles for handling conflict—for ourselves, our groups, and assisting our leaders.
Did You Miss, “Is My Small Group Friends?”
During our recent Small Group Leader Equip Night, we featured the topic: “Is My Small Group Friends?”
