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.
