Small Group Help Blog tagged 'small group resources'

Free E-Book For Small Group Icebreakers

frank@moviechurch.com — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Great small group leaders are always hunting for new ways to get the discussion going. The link below is a free e-book with 40 different small group icebreakers! Here is an a example of one you can find in the e-book:

The aim of the game is to talk for one minute on a given subject. You announce the topic and a member of the group is randomly selected to speak for one minute. Use a pack of cards to randomly select i.e. person who draws the lowest number. Choose subjects [...]

Group Life Conference Highlights

frank@moviechurch.com — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Dave Treat has posted the video highlights from each of the main sessions. Here are links to each so take a look to get a feel for the great speakers at this year's conference:

Session 1 - John Burke

Session 2 - Mark Batterson and Heather Zemple

Session 3 - Will Miller

Session 4 - Bill Donahue

Session 5 - Miles McPherson

Group Life Conference - Session 5

frank@moviechurch.com — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Miles McPherson - How Community Transforms

Five things we need to do to as leaders to create transformational community:

1 - We have to redefine our evangelistic starting point as God's response to a broken world.

The gospel is a person - Jesus! God not only wants an experience with you. He wants you to share this to the world.
Exodus 3:6-10 Our communities are crying out. The church must respond to the cry of the people in the community. We need to fi [...]

Group Life Conference - Session 4

frank@moviechurch.com — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Bill Donahue - Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time

Jon Stolpe took notes for me again during this session...

Life puts us in challenging and difficult situations that force us to make a decision.
There are times where we don't always make the best decision - despite our best strategies, ideas, and intentions.

Sometimes we make decisions out of a desire to satisfy our egos. We exchange expedience for wisdom - convenience for conviction.
What do you do when [...]

Group Life Conference - Breakout C

frank@moviechurch.com — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Finding and Launching New Leaders - Dave Treat

Workshop Goal - Learn to use a leadership assessment tool that will identify the readiness of each potential leader in your ministry and will clarify different training paths to help them move toward leadership.

Define - What do we want to reproduce?
- The reproducible life. "Follow me." I Corinthians 11:1
- What is the role of the Small Group Leader? What do we want to see happen in our groups?
- Leading vs. [...]

Group Life Conference - Breakout B

frank@moviechurch.com — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Removing and Restoring Leaders - Rex Minor

Okay this looks like a "positive" subject. Rex Minor is the presenter:

- Resources when approaching this subject: Boundaries, Face to Face; Emotional Intelligence; The Peace Maker; Silos, Politics and Turf Wars; Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands.

- There are many reasons for removing leaders: poor fit, incompatibility of vision, sin/moral failure, break of confidentiality, divisive behaviour, theological differences, health (ment [...]

Group Life Conference - Breakout A

frank@moviechurch.com — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Leveraging Technology to Support Community

My buddy Jon Stolpe blogged through this breakout by led by Cynthia Ware:

- Technology is normative.
- The next generation is thinking about communication differently than my generation.
- http://thedigitalsanctua [...]

Bill Search - Simple Small Groups

design@johnnoonan.com — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:00:00 +0100

I had a great discussion this morning with Bill Search (author of Simple Small Groups) and Chad Allen (from Baker Books). We talked about a variety of issues around community and group life.

How open should groups be? We landed around empowering leaders to make decisions for our groups. Intimacy can be disrupted in group life and the timing of a new addition can have a big impact on spiritual growth. However, certain groups lend themselves to new additions. For example, Bill shared how [...]

Group Life Conference - Session 2

frank@moviechurch.com — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Mark Batterson and Heather Zemple - Where Community Grow Best

I was lucky enough to connect with Heather on a panel we shared at the pre-conference session on community and social media. She is really as bright at Mark shared in the beginning of the talk.

Here are some points from their discussion:

- Don't confuse the outcome with the method

- There are a number of different ways to accomplish community

- EVERYTHING is an experiment (core value of Nation [...]

Group Life Conference - Session 3

design@johnnoonan.com — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:00:00 +0100

This guy is funny, really funny. Here is some statements from Will that were great.

- The culture stunts community growth.

- The US leads the world in stress disorders

- 25% of Americans have stress related disorder

- Last year 46million Americans moved

- The average American is watching 28 hours of TV/week and the Internet is enhancing it.

- How many people have refrigerator rights in your house?

- The only definition of a family that holds any water [...]

Group Life Conference - Session 1

frank@moviechurch.com — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Introduction

Bill Donahue shared some of the history of the Group Life Conference to start us off and it is hard to believe it has been 10 Years in the making of what it is today. He then introduced us to John Burke for our first session.

Why Community is [...]

Group Life Conference Discount!

frank@moviechurch.com — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:00:00 +0100

I just got an email today from Dave Treat over at the Willow Creek Association. They are allowing our readers to register for the Group Life Conference at a DISCOUNTED RATE!!!

Regular price is $365 for WCA members and $385 for non-members. However if you call in or register online and use this priority code - GLC8BLG - you will get in into the [...]

Dumb Stories - Cool Conference

frank@moviechurch.com — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Dave Treat, from Willow Creek, recently posted that he is interested in reading your stories and making them a part of the Group Life Conference this year. Here is what Dave posted:

What's the funniest, most embarrassing, or (in retrospect) dumbest thing you've done in Group Life? From the small group that wanted to study the "Dead Sea Squirrels" or the toddler in the laundry chute, to the most ill-conceived icebreaker of all time ("Tell the group the worst [...]

Connect '08 - Better Than Ice Cream!

frank@moviechurch.com — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Community Christian Church is starting a new Small Groups Conference called Connect '08

Saturday, August 9th, 2008
8am to 12:30pm
Cost: $29

It's better than ice cream! Don't miss this opportunity to further develop your practical small group leadership skills, connect with other leaders, and expand your vision of using small groups to connect people closer to community and closer to the heart of God.

Here is some stuff they pla [...]

Small Groups 2.0 - Task Groups On The Web

frank@moviechurch.com — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:00:00 +0100

In my previous posts on this topic we covered Small Groups 2.0 for social groups and traditional (study) small groups. In this post I want to cover task groups.

Some churches that are working on being churches of groups instead of a church with groups classify their ministry teams as small groups as well. These type of groups would include ushers, security, parking, tech teams, and the band.

Small Groups 2.0 - Social Networking For Social Groups

frank@moviechurch.com — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:00:00 +0100

Does your small group ministry take advantage of all that the web has to offer? Are you utilizing all of the functionality of Web 2.0? In order for us to dig deeper into how the web can enhance your small group ministry experience we first should define what Web 2.0 is. Here is how Wikipedia defines it:

Web 2.0 is a term describing a trend in [...]

All Church Series

frank@moviechurch.com — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:49:13 +0100

A couple of times a year our church does what I

call an "all church series."

This means we choose a topic, book, sermons, and small group studies that all tie together. I recently had another pastor ask me for some recommendations so I thought I would list a few that we have done with some thoughts here.

If You Want To Walk On Water, You Have To Get Out Of The Boat:

Great book that is an easy read

Easy to preach with go [...]

Resource Monday - Liquid

frank@moviechurch.com — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:43:34 +0100

Last week my small group started something brand new! I am really excited about a new video curriculum that was released a couple of weeks ago called Liquid. Each study is 5 weeks long and begins with episode of a TV show. Each episode builds upon the previous and the lives of the characters throw your group into real l [...]

Group Life Conference - Bill Donahue and Henry Cloud

frank@moviechurch.com — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:54:50 +0100

Session two was also very good. I have seen these two gentlemen do their thing on CCN in the Groups That Grow series and they brought that right to the stage at the Group Life Conference this morning. They have challenged our leaders in four ways:
Create a safe environment - people will keep coming when they feel safe and they will begin to shareBe authentic - When people feel safe they start to share in an authentic wayOffer help - asking for and offering help can be a point of [...]