Darryl has watched his group grow over the last few years to fill his living room. But this past year, the group has hit a plateau and doesn’t seem to have much outward focus. Darryl has been casting the vision for the empty chair and has mentioned the possibility of the group “birthing” into two [...]
Archive for the ‘Birthing a New Small Group’ category
Darryl’s Dilemma
March 20, 2010Baby Showers and Birth Announcements
February 25, 2010When is your due date? When will your small group have the privilege of giving birth to a whole new group and your ministry effort will be multiplied? Even if you are just beginning to meet and launching another small group seems to be a long ways off, set a due date. You might be [...]
Top 10 Lame Reasons
February 19, 2010Here they are, according to SmallGroups.com: The Top 10 Lame Reasons For Not Multiplying (Birthing) the Group. And believe me!! These are lame!!!
The Small Group Birthing Process
February 10, 2010I want to highlight a training video and blog entry that I find to be quite helpful in understanding The Small Group Birthing Process. Let me first highlight a few comments made that I find helpful. First, why should groups have an “open chair policy?” (Always trying to have an open chair at meetings as [...]
When is the Due Date?
February 4, 2010Most of us don’t have any problem with the idea that our group could really make a great contribution to our church, our small group ministry, as well as to the lives of individuals if we could birth a new small group. The problem most of run into is how to do it. More specifically, [...]
