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Growth Group Leader Notes
For the week of May 25, 2008
Things to Remember: Drinks when people arrive
Topic: CROOKED STICKS AND STRAIGHT LINES, Judges 11:1-12:7
Goals for the Evening:
- Dig into the homework, making an effort to personally apply the questions.
- Continue to talk about plans for next Fall.
- Pray for new Leaders & Hosts to be raised up for Fall.
- Hand out and collect Feedback forms and review them with your host.
THE MEETING
Growth Group Announcements
Discuss Plans for the Fall & Next week - Find out from group if they know their plans for being part of the group in the Fall. They can indicate their plans on the feedback forms.
Feedback Forms - Have your group fill out their feedback forms. Let them know how important their honest feedback is for you as leader and host. Make sure you allow plenty of time to complete the forms. Collect them at the end of the meeting, and review them with your host. Deliver them to the office by dropping them off at the Growth Group drop box in your venue or mail to the Growth Group office. You can wait until the last week if you want. We need them turned in by June 8th, so we can start forming the Fall groups.
New Fall Growth Group Leaders - Let your group know that because of our growth we are praying that we can raise up leaders and hosts for 40+ new Growth Groups.
Study Questions
For more specific tips on this week’s questions, visit our Leader’s Guide to the Growth Group Homework online.
Prayer
Take prayer requests. Remind them how topical prayer works, if necessary.
LEADER INFO
Raising up new Leaders and Groups
Our projection for this Fall is that we will need 40+ new groups. Please share this prayer need with your group. Also, please consider the following ways to launch new groups and raise up new leaders within your group.
- Your Leader Associate can spin off a new group of their own. This creates ONE new group.
- You spin off a new group of your own. Your Leader Associate leads the original group. This creates ONE new group.
- You and your Leader Associate spin off new groups, while each keeps some members from the original group. This creates TWO groups.
- You, your Leader Associate and your Host spin off their own groups, each keeping some of the members of the original group. This creates openings in THREE new groups.
New Leaders & Hosts Recommendations for the Fall
If you have not already done so, please let your Station-in-Life Pastor know of any potential leaders/hosts for the fall. You can do this by clicking on the Leader/Host Recommendations form at under Leader Tools.
Spring Evaluations/Feedback Forms
Feedback forms have been sent to the group meeting location. Please hand them out to your group the week of May 25th and turn them in no later than June 8th. The last week of the Spring quarter is June 1—June 7. Extra copies of the evaluation forms are available at the Growth Group drop boxes in North Coast Live and in each of the video venues. You can access them online by clicking here.
Getting Ready for the Fall
Please spend time this week talking with your group about their plans for the Fall. You will receive an updated roster with your Feedback forms, or it can be found online. Please review what’s listed (night, time, location, group focus, members) and submit any anticipated revisions for the Fall quarter. Thank you for your prompt reply as this will greatly help us to anticipate the needs for new Fall Growth Groups. You’ll get a reminder email on this.
Growth Group Shuttle Schedule
The following groups are encouraged to ride the Shuttle the weekend of May 31 & June 1.
Stowe | Sybert | Treibel |