Is Your Small Group Healthy?

It is when all five purposes are expressed. 
As a small group leader, our job is to help keep all five purposes balanced.

Do You Know How?  Want Help?

 
 

ThinkOnIt Worship Ideas

 

 Have someone volunteer to bring a song.  It's helpful if they bring lyrics too. Play song for group.  Sing along if feel so inclined. Music helps get our hearts in right condition.

  

Bring sticky notes/index cards. Have small group members write down a prayer request specific to them. Very important that it be for them, not someone they know.  This helps them verbalize their needs.  Collect the notes/cards and distribute.  This becomes the person you pray for through out the week.  Repeat this each week.

 

 Ask for a Praise Report. It's always worshipful to talk about what God has done in our life.  Share those times with your group.

ThinkOnIt Ministry Ideas
 
Help your small group members find out what they are shaped for.
 
S.H.A.P.E. Profile  - Find out your God-given S.H.A.P.E.
 
Give them opportunities to put those gifts into practice
 
S.H.A.P.E. Central - Learn to use your S.H.A.P.E to serve God and others.
 
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ThinkOnIt Discipleship Ideas

 

Develop personal quiet time with the Lord.  Get up early spend time with the Lord while everyone else is sleeping. Spend lunch time with the Lord.  Talk to Him while commuting to and from work.  Doesn't matter when or where, just that you seek Him.

 

Prayer walk with your small group around the neighbor or business where you normal meet.

 

Read daily Bible Devotions.  Subscribe to email devotions, so you always have one when you need it.

 

Do your own Bible Studies.  Learn different methods of Bible Study.  Inductive, comparative, systematic, word, topic, the choices are unlimited.

 

ThinkOnIt Fellowship Ideas

 

Get your small group involved.  Everyone can care for each other.  Call those who miss a meeting, let them know they were missed.

 

Encourage your small group members.  Christian Bookmarks make a perfect gifts.  Encourage one another with the gift of God's Word.  For Christian bookmarks, click here.

 

Celebrate each other's birthdays.  Have someone volunteer to keep track of birthdays. Someone else can collect money and/or distribute a birthday card for everyone to sign. 



 

 

 

 


ThinkOnIt Serving Together Opportunities
 
Small groups who serve together enjoy a rich, intimate, and real fellowship.  When the focus is not on our self, but on serving others we feel God's pleasure.  Below are a few ways to serve together:


 

Browse Volunteer Center Orange County database for various volunteer projects.  Select only what appeals to your group.  Just the calendar to see events are planned in the near future.

 


 

BECOME A VOLUNTEER!  Whether you have just a few minutes, an hour, a day, a week, a month, or a year, we will find creative ways to put your valuable time to good use for the children and families of Olive Crest.

 


 

Each year the America's Second Harvest national network of food banks and food-rescue organizations distributes two billion pounds of food and grocery products to hungry and needy Americans in communities across the country. Organize a food drive at your work.  Or simply donate your time at a local pantry.

 


 

At Families Forward, we see the sense of isolation and hopelessness of parents who feel they have lost the ability to care for their children. We give families renewed self-confidence and the tools they need to succeed in life. Last year, Families Forward assisted over 10,000 individuals through housing, counseling, food, referrals, school supplies, career coaching, and other services.








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