83 Opportunities
We are getting ready to kick off our Spring Sememster of small groups at NCC. Our small groups are the community in National Community Church. For what it's worth, we do groups on a semester system so we have easy entry points and exit points. I think it helps new NCCers get integrated.
So excited about the groups we're offering this semester! Props to our discipleship pastor, Heather Zempel, along with our zone leaders, team leaders, and small group leaders. Every semester is a quantum undertaking. But we do it for one reason: our job as leaders is to engineer opportunities for people to grow spiritually. We've got 83 of them this semester.
If you want to get plugged in, check out our online catalog.
So excited about the groups we're offering this semester! Props to our discipleship pastor, Heather Zempel, along with our zone leaders, team leaders, and small group leaders. Every semester is a quantum undertaking. But we do it for one reason: our job as leaders is to engineer opportunities for people to grow spiritually. We've got 83 of them this semester.
If you want to get plugged in, check out our online catalog.
4 Comments:
:( Is there a small group to counsel those who are sad after a Green Bay loss tonight? :(
No kidding! I get downright depressed after a loss :) I get telling myself that I never thought the pack would make it this far at the beginning of the season but it is so hard to get that close to the super bowl and lose :)
The Pack will be back!
Wow, thats a lot of opportunities! One of the thoughts I had as I read this was how you decide on what types of programs to include. I am wondering this because we are heading into a time of developing our mission and vision statements for our church and I would assume this would guide some of your decision making. On that same note, how does your church go about developing their mission and vision statements? Any cautions or pitfalls? techniques or processes that have worked for you? Any reading suggestions? Do you need anymore questions? :-)
Carla,
Our small groups are a free market system so we let leaders get a vision from God and go for it! I love it. I think it gives leaders great freedom to discern what God wants them to do. Very empowering.
In terms of vision and values, it was a pretty organic thing for us. We didn't sit down in a room with a white board. We figured it out along the way. I think you can look back at your church history and ask question like: what is important to us? What is unique about us? What drives us?
That is how we came up with values like "everything is an experiment" or our conviction that "the church ought to be the most creative place on the planet." They came out of our experience.
Hope that helps!
Mark
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