LifeGroup Leadership Tips

Here are some important things to remember as you launch your LifeGroup at the beginning of the term.  These tips will help you as you seek to lead your group to connect relationally and take the next step in their spiritual journey.

Things to do before  the initial meeting

Get your group in the LifeGroup Catalog (form on the web-site)

Take part in the Small Group Connection Event (Fair)

Decide on location and furnish directions to the meeting

Have a predetermined ice breaker question prepared to get people talking

Make arrangements for hospitality & mixing time (light snacks)

Things to remember as you plan for  the LifeGroup Term

Current Term Dates

Group Calendar

•Meeting day and
time, home rotation

Wild Life rotation
•Small group
connection events

•Birthdays &
anniversaries

•Prayer/Worship Event

•Service Project

•Group Fun Night

Group contact list (email, phone, address)

Delegation – point person over each of the 5 core values

Each group connects with a missionary

Group Study Topic

Encourage group members to develop the core value of Personal Ministry in their lives by serving in the following areas:  Personal Life, Total Church Life, & Group Life.

Components of a Meeting

These are the general components of a meeting although they will vary week to week.

•Fellowship Time

•Worship

•Wild Life

•Facilitation – (what is God teaching us in our study & daily times with him)

•Prayer Time & Prayer Maps

•Wild Life Report Time