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Just-in-Time Coaching for Small Group Ministries Sent Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Ready for the NEXT Stage of the Journey?

April, 2009

One of the great challenges in ministry is to keep moving toward what's next. It takes energy. It takes foresight. It takes endurance. And to top it all off, just when you reach the milestone you've been aiming for...it's time to start looking at the next season. It never ends.

So the question today is, "Are you ready for the NEXT stage of the journey?" Do you know where you're going yet? As it turns out, now is the right time to begin laying the groundwork for the fall; to re-clarify what you're going to call a "win." Now is also the time to look carefully at where you actually are...to do a little bit of a post-Easter assessment.

In this edition of Just-in-Time Coaching you'll find some of the last month's most popular articles as well as a couple key ideas from the archives. Take a look! I think you'll find them pretty helpful.

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Clarifying the Win In Your Small Group Ministry

How do you know you're succeeding at what you do? If we were baseball players...it'd be easy. At the end of the game we'd see who had the most runs on the scoreboard. Would hits matter? Yes. Would RBIs matter? Yes. What about our pitcher's ERA? Yes. But would they themselves be a win? No. At the end of the game only one thing really matters. Do you have more runs than the other team.

How does that relate to group life? Well...unless you've declared what a win is, you might be measuring (or celebrating) the wrong things. Need a for instance? What if you're calling a certain percentage of your weekend adult attendance a win? For example, you've got 300 adults in your average weekend worship and you've got 200 adults in a group of some kind. Does that feel like a win? Is that a win? Read More

Building Small Group Ministry in Churches with Sunday School Cultures - Part Two

(Last month I began a series on this topic. Here's the next installment. You'll find parts 3 - 5 on my blog).

The first step in building a small group ministry in a church with a Sunday School culture is to clarify and skillfully communicate your reasons for choosing to build a Small Group Ministry. Both elements are critical. You will want to work hard in the very beginning to get comfortable with explaining the benefits. Read More

POPULAR ARTICLES

Learning How to Pray Together

If the greatest fear that people have is public speaking...it only makes sense that many people will be hesitant to pray out loud. Here are some ideas that I've found very helpful: Read More

Problem-Free Leader Identification and Recruitment

As we've discussed previously, there is no problem-free. Every solution comes with a set of problems. Knowing that, wise people simply choose the problems they'd rather have and select the solution they like based on that.

Is there a problem-free way to identify and recruit small group leaders? Read More

Developing a Home-Grown Church-Wide Study

Is your church ready for another all-church campaign? Maybe you saw the power of the 40 Days of Purpose and you'd like to recapture that momentum. Or maybe you've only heard about the advantage of a church-wide campaign and you'd like your own congregation to experience that kind of unity. Maybe the closest thing you've experienced has been a well-designed capital campaign that energized your people and got them on the same page.

No matter the motivation, if you're ready to plan and launch a church-wide campaign there are a couple ways you can go about it. Read More

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