Small Group Help Blog tagged 'training'

DC Area Small Group Pastor Connect Event

frank@moviechurch.com — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Heather Zempel and NCC are hosting a gathering for Small Group Pastors and point leaders at Ebenezers Coffeehouse. Here is her recent post with the details:

Calling all DC-area small group pastors and point leaders! NCC will be hosting a gathering of small group/discipleship point leaders on November 13 at Ebenezers Coffeehouse from 2pm-4pm. Whether you are a volunteer or a full-time paid staff member, if you are the primary champion of small groups at your church, we'd love f [...]

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 [...]

The Definition of a Leader

frank@moviechurch.com — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:00:00 +0100

I was reading some blogs on Small Groups recently and I ran across this post that focuses on the qualities and practices of effective leaders.

1. Leaders Model the Way

Leadership is not about personality; it's about behavior. Leading means you have to be a good example, and live what you say. Leaders must find their own voice, then they must clearly and distinctively give voice to their values. Leadership is about the power of spending time with someone, of working side by [...]

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 [...]

Group Life Website Is Live!

frank@moviechurch.com — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:00:00 +0100

One of the best training events for small groups each year is the Willow Creek Group Life Conference. The new website for the conference is now live. This year they are starting some new breakouts for people that arrive early (the morning of Oct 16) and I have the privilege of helping out. I will be participating this year on a panel of speakers around the topic of community and social media. Those joining me will be Heather Zempel, Cynthia Ware, and Mac Lake. The co [...]

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 [...]

Get To Know Your Group

frank@moviechurch.com — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Sometimes our small group relationships can get stuck in a superficial limbo. There are people in our groups that we never really get to know deeply. When that happens we miss out on the life experience that others can teach us. Bill Search has a great activity you can do with your group to learn more about each other and go deeper with your relationships. Take a look...

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPCeXr5qJzc&eurl=http://www.simplesmallgroups.com/simple [...]

Group Life Conference 2008 - Preview

frank@moviechurch.com — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Dave Treat is starting to release some details about the Group Life Conference this October in Chicago.

Main Session 1 - Why Community Is Essential.
John Burke, Lead Pastor, Gateway Church (Austin, Texas)

Main Session 2 - Where Community Grows Best
Mark Batterson, Lead Pastor & Heather Zempel, Discipleship Pastor. National Community Church (Washington, DC)

Click here for more details

Relational Intelligence Helps Groups Grow

frank@moviechurch.com — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Bill Donahue and Henry Cloud recently were interviewed by Anita Lustrea on Midday Connection (Moody Radio Ministries). They talked about the fears women have about connecting in small groups and the role that relational intelligence plays in helping groups grow.

Life change happens in community. Sometimes we need to create that community in the form of small groups. Bill Donahue and Henry Cloud discuss the dynamics of groups and emotional intelligence. Lea [...]