July 29th, 2009 
alandanielson Would you be willing to help make an immediate impact in Uganda? Pastor Samuel Sebuliba is the Lead Pastor of a church plant, New Destiny Community Church, in Uganda and he is my friend. Yesterday he shared that their church is in need of sound equipment and an inflatable Moon Bounce for their outreach to [...]
July 23rd, 2009 alandanielson The difference small groups made at camp last week was amazing! After every message the kids met in small groups and discussed questions related to the message they just heard. Below are some of my thoughts about how small groups made camp a richer spiritual experience for the students. Dialogue. People in today’s culture (especially [...]
July 22nd, 2009 alandanielson Many of you have asked me to tell about the camp I preached at last week, so here goes. It was a camp for one church: Reese Prairie Baptist Church in Burleson, Texas. The camp is called Camp Timberline and it’s near Tyler, Texas. Sam Dallas is the youth pastor and I’ve known Sam for [...]
July 16th, 2009 alandanielson Many small group ministry leaders wrestle with the question, “how should I provide ongoing care for my small group leaders?” This is an important question because leaders who don’t experience ongoing care from the church will begin to feel disconnected from the church. There are nearly as many approaches to answering this question as there [...]
July 15th, 2009 alandanielson As a consultant I get the priviledge of speaking into the ministries of many different churches, but one of my favorite things is learning from the churches I encounter. Last weekend I spent some time at Cross Point Community Church in Nashville where Pete Wilson is the pastor (pictured right). My overall assessment of Cross Point’s small group ministry is that [...]
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No Comments » July 11th, 2009 alandanielson In my last two posts I wrote about understanding why groups tend not to embrace mission, and how we need to personally revisit our theology of small groups. Today let’s explore the idea of environments. As leaders we must create an environment that fosters the living out and embracing of our missional values and our missional theology [...]
Posted in Mission, Small Groups, Spiritual Growth Tags: community, Evangelism, focus, group, groups, inward, Missional/Outwardness, outward, small No Comments » July 8th, 2009 alandanielson Last time I talked about 7 contributing reasons for group inwardness and self-focus. Over the next few posts I’ll describe some steps we can take as leaders to adjust the course of our small group ministries from inward to outward. Let’s start with reviewing our own theological perspective for groups and mission. Now I don’t want to [...]
Posted in Mission, Small Groups, Spiritual Growth Tags: community, Evangelism, focus, group, groups, inward, Missional/Outwardness, outward, small No Comments » July 6th, 2009 alandanielson Randall Neighbour asked a really loaded question: “How would you consult or work with a church to help them turn consumers into producers?” I thought this great question deserved a series of posts in response. Thanks for asking, Randall! Let’s start by trying to understand the “why” behind the “what”. The “what”, simply put, is that most small groups [...]
Posted in Mission, Small Groups, Spiritual Growth Tags: community, Evangelism, focus, group, groups, inward, Missional/Outwardness, outward, small No Comments » July 3rd, 2009 alandanielson Many Churches (right or wrong) are boiling groups down to three values. Churches sometimge give these three values different names, but they typically represent the following words: Community, Discipleship, Mission. When I’m talking to these churches I find that they feel like they do community and discipleship pretty well but don’t do mission very well. They [...]
Posted in Small Groups, Spiritual Growth Tags: community, Discipleship, Evangelism, fellowship, group, groups, mission, small, values No Comments » July 2nd, 2009 alandanielson Today’s post has been really fun for me to put together! I love short statements that have a powerful and/or memorablepoint. It’s been a habit of mine to write a daily Twote (A Quote on Twitter) because these short proverbs tend to stick with people. Here are some that have jumped out at me in the last few [...]
