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Fall Forward Launching Better Together Groups
Above all… • Transformation over Information • Relating over Educating
Types of Groups • Wesleyan Distinctive • Varied types/targets • Societies • Classes • Bands • Might Look Like: • Affinity Groups • Formational/practices • Disciple Bible Studies
Group Duration • Semester-Based (bound; start and stop) • Year Long • Three-Year Long • One-on-one relationships
Location • In Community (restaurants, coffee shops, community centers, be creative!) • In Homes (can be one home the duration or rotate homes) • At Missouri we pray to have groups meeting all over Columbia (north, south, east and west). • At Church
Group System – Four F’s(based on Nelson Searcy’s Activate) • FocusMarch, July and November • FormMid-March to mid-April, mid-July to mid- August, and mid-November to mid-December. • FillPromotion months mid- January to mid- February, mid-May to mid-June and September • Facilitate February, June, and October.
Focus • Determine the philosophy, strategy, goals and calendar for your upcoming small group semester. (July) • Offer 5 new groups; 3 of which will be affinity groups. • (in the works: grief support, entrepreneurs, family with toddler play dates)
Form • Create invites to facilitate through email followed by conversation. • Follow up with facilitators about who shows promise as a future facilitator. Ideally, an apprentice becomes a facilitator. • Pre-launch meetings (cast vision, Q&A) • Better Together (head, heart, hands) • Call To Action Card
Fill(Ways to Invite People to Participate/Promote) • Give multiple ways to sign up. • Facilitators invite people to participate. • People who sign up to participate, invite their friends. • Video Transformation Stories of Participants and Facilitators • Group Booklet or Catalog (hard copy and online) • Blessing the Facilitators in Worship
New Fill Efforts • Say Yes Board 8/27 • Better Together Group Fair 8/27 • Groups start the week of Sunday, September 10
Facilitate • Begin and maintain groups, while equipping and encouraging leaders. • Huddles • Facilitator check-ins • Best Practical Facilitator Helps – “Leading LIfe-Changing Small Groups” by Bill Donahue
Multiplying • Apprentice: Key to Multiplication • Exponential.org • Exponential: How You and Your Friends Can Start a Missional Church Movement (Exponential Series) by Dave Ferguson and Jon Ferguson
Start now…it’s not too late • Focus • Write one or two goals for groups at your church.
Pre-Launch Meetings at Missouri UMC • Wednesday, July 19; 6:30-8 p.m. • Tuesday, July 25; 6:30-8 p.m.
Further Support • charity@moumc.org • 573-443-3111