Connection Teams


I can finally come back up for air.  I've been hiding out, working on our fall small group manual and study guides for the past few weeks.  After dozens of meetings, hours of collaboration, and working my mac to the max, we're done.  The manual ended up being about 75 pages long.  We started training our new leaders this week and really expect things to explode. (in a good way)


The biggest problem we ran into was renaming our small group ministry.  We went with "Connection Teams".  It's actually a good alternative to some of our other ideas... "Mix and Mingle", "Band of Brothers, and Sisters", "People Not in a Box" (an ode to Petra), "Like a Good Neighbor", "Homemade Goodness", and "Rapture-Ready Radicals".  Some of you are laughing, some are rolling your eyes, but most of you are probably crying.   

Give me some feedback on what your small group ministry is called or what you wish it was called.

2 comments:

Grannie September 20, 2008 at 4:48 AM  

JOE KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN BUSY...GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU

TELL EVERYONE HELLO

MOM

Tim Gabbard September 25, 2008 at 7:59 AM  

I know how much work that is...great job in creating materials to propel and equip individuals to accomplish the mission and vision.

We have two different areas of our groups. Discipleship (20 minute video lead study with workbooks)
Connections (centered around areas such as: bookclub; scrapbooking; 42; traveling; golf; college age...)
We are pushing our discipleship groups during this time of year and the connections still meet all the time.

Joe Gabbard

I'm a pastor and strategy leader at a great church in Kansas City, MO.  Ronnin and I have been married for over 10 years and we have two beautiful, blond headed boys.  I'm interested in loving my family and being part of a community that impacts the spiritual landscape of our region.

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