Practical things for over the summer...

in preparation for the fall.

1. Pray for your future group...
-for the hearts of those that will join your group
-for your group to experience life giving community/relationships.
-for you and other leaders to have wisdom, direction and patience

2. If you are co-leading with someone (which we recomend) connect with them a couple times over the summer (just a phone call will do), pray together and brainstorm about details. Later in the summer nail down when and where your small group will be so you can be ready to invite people the first day of school (you can always change it later).

3. Spend some time thinking through objectives for your group in the fall (more to come soon on the components we would love to see every group have). What can you do to help your group connect outside of the scheduled time, what should we study(talk to a Staff member, that's what we're here for, check out links on the right), how can I model it for them to get a vision for leading in fall of 2007 or 2008?

4. Pray some more!