June 30th, 2009 
alandanielson I’ll be writing more about this over the coming weeks and months…oh let’s face it…years, but I’ve got some big news: I’m leaving JourneyChurch.tv to start consulting full-time! Shortly after coming on board at Journey my Senior Pastor, Clark Mitchell, gave us a book called Right People, Right Place, Right Plan: Discerning the Voice of [...]
June 29th, 2009 alandanielson Andy Stanley’s Catalyst talk about Systems really connects with me. If you haven’t heard it get it from Catalyst or at least read a summary of it here. In that talk he says “Systems create behaviors” and I couldn’t agree more. We have a system for curriculum. We create a set of discussion questions with Scripture that [...]
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Tags: group, groups, mission, Missional/Outwardness, small, system, systems 
No Comments » June 26th, 2009 admin Today’s post is by a friend of mine named Chris Lagerlof AKA ”Lags”. Great insight coming so buckle your seat belts! ~Alan ———————————————— “What an experience!” Isn’t that what we want people to say when they walk away from our small group? A couple weeks ago there were numerous emergency vehicle sirens, helicopters circling and street [...]
Posted in Small Groups Tags: chris, Consulting, group, groups, guest, hi-def, lagerlof, liquid, small No Comments » June 25th, 2009 alandanielson While I was at LifeChurch.tv we merged the Missions and Small Group teams together. When I share that with pastors who I’m consulting about their small group ministries they frequently scratch their heads and say something like, “I don’t see the natural connection between those two ministries.” I’d like to say we merged the teams [...]
June 21st, 2009 alandanielson Fathers have to be careful because they can do a lot of damage. Here’s a list of the damage my Dad has done and continues to do: My Dad damages the status quo. My dad, the appliance repairman, always works with integrity. He never cheats anyone or lies about the work he’s done. He never [...]
June 18th, 2009 admin by Boyd Pelley A couple of years ago, I was training some leaders on using our system for weekly communication when Todd asked me if I remembered when he had stopped going to church and small group a couple of years earlier. I did. “What you don’t know,” he said, “is that every week [...]
Posted in Small Groups Tags: church, churchteams, communication, group, groups, small, teams No Comments » June 17th, 2009 admin by Michael McMinn Today’s my last post about Outward or Missional ideas for groups. The rest of the ideas on this list are really simple and ANY group can easily do them. 10) Serve in a soup kitchen or homeless shelter. 11) Donate clothing and other items to a mission. 12) Take warm blankets [...]
Posted in Mission, Small Groups Tags: groups, mcminn, michael, Missional/Outwardness, small No Comments » June 16th, 2009 admin by Michael McMinn Yesterday I started talking about some ways for small groups to be outward. Here are some more ideas: 6) Consider an area of the city like a park, bus stop, or other area that with the proper permission your group could work to beautify. It would be a blessing to the neighborhood. 7) [...]
Posted in Mission, Small Groups Tags: group, groups, mcminn, michael, Missional/Outwardness, small No Comments » June 15th, 2009 admin by Michael McMinn Alan wrote a post a few weeks ago about the first step for developing an outward focus. I wrote a comment on that post which talks about what will happen if a group, group leader, or ministry leader does not seek God’s heart for outwardness. Alan then asked me to share more thoughts [...]
June 14th, 2009 admin by Jason Gordon Our church is three months old. In the last three months, we have met over two hundred people. They are people who are looking for something. Two somethings really: answers to their questions about faith and acceptance. The amazing thing we’ve found is that we can offer them both. We can engage [...]
