Best Practices…Group Socials
My Campus Group just had our Valentine’s Social. This has been a staple of our Group. We’ve done a lot of unique events. Recently we have started doing it a bit differently. I think it was a real smart idea by my leader, Mike Kline. The last two years we’ve had a rich time together … Continue reading
Best Practices Sunday the 23
I stopped by a number of our Campus Groups Sunday sharing about our upcoming Investigative Groups. It is so fun to see the good things going on in many of our groups. We are lucky ….ok fortunate to be here. I learn, relearn or am reminded of some smart practices as I enter a group. … Continue reading
Your first teaching series of the year.
Let us know what you’ll be doing for your first series out of the shoot with your group. I am so excited about our Luke 6 series. It has so many tough passages on following Christ. I can’t wait to see how the Lord uses it. Curriculum will be available soon for the series that … Continue reading
Sunday recap — a story of conflict
We had a great day a couple Sundays ago. Helen shared her tough story of conflict and forgiveness. We spend a lot of time talking in abfs in a safe mode…we hear solid teaching. We can teach from a sterile environment with our lessons. There is something so powerful when we hear a story, particularly … Continue reading
Sunday Recap: A Better Way to Teach
summit-10-06-06-the-boss Above is the case study we used to rev up our conversation this past Sunday. I wrote about this last week. A case study is a story you write or an article you find that brings out ambiguity and the grey-ness of life. They are perfect for revealing the variety of values that reside … Continue reading
Sunday Recap: Teaching a little better
Summit 10-06-06 the boss Above is the case study we used to rev up our conversation this past Sunday. I wrote about this last week. A case study is a story you write or an article you find that brings out ambiguity and the grey-ness of life. They are perfect for revealing the variety of … Continue reading
Evaluations
We’re in the midst of our season of evaluations. We’ve asked each of our groups to fill out the form. What our hope is that the process helps each group become a little more self aware. If each abf can find one thing to work on, their group will experience better community. We also hope … Continue reading
Great Curriculum to help your group Connect
I’ve been using the DVD series ReGroup for the last six weeks. It’s a great tool to help move your group’s relationships to a higher place. Watch the video. Let us know if you want to use it too. We have several copies available and student guides. You can also look back over my posts … Continue reading
When Sparks Fly – Sermon Series and Helps
We just started our latest sermon series Sunday, “When Sparks Fly.” It is about how to be reconciled to each other and live at peace. Conflict always brings out so much emotion. Everybody can relate to the struggle to live as one and to resolve issues. No one is free from this. I could see … Continue reading
Sunday Recap — Confrontation
It was a great day today touching on the how and why we confront. The sermon was on the same subject. In fact, for the next two weeks we’ll be on the subject of conflict resolution. Scary stuff for many. Great when we work it through. If you look to the previous post you’ll find … Continue reading
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