Small Group Life LEADERSHIP

What does it take to be a Small Group Leader at ECC? As I think about this question a few things come to mind. However, I want to focus on the why, first. Leadership is important in many facets of life. Why leadership-well because if no one steps up to lead then chaos normally follows. You can turn on your television at any moment during the day right now, to have that point proven. The fact is simple: WE NEED LEADERS. Small group life is no different. We need people who can walk alongside others and help lead healthy conversations. Jesus was a Master at this-yes, pun intended. He picked a handful of guys, and fed into them with discipleship discussions, corrective conversations, equipping exchanges, and encouraging encounters. For Jesus, He was a natural, for the rest of us they are learned. Yes, they can be and should be learned. Why leadership? Right now, we need men and women to step up and walk with others through life and help them develop friends who will live life together. It is about growing relationally, spiritually, and journeying together through this things we call life. ECC is at a harvest time in our Small Group Ministry and we are excited to be launching new small groups in the days to come. We need leaders and hosts to step up and step in. We will as a church walk alongside you, give you the tools to lead, and development ops to be a leader in small group life. Some of our current groups have leaders stacked up and shelved, and instead of multiplying as we have done in year's past, we will be activating and launching new groups. The key is leadership and if you are willing to lead, we are willing to help you by walking with you. Lives are being transformed at ECC and a part of our mission is to help connect these transformed lives to others.

ReGroup Leadership Night

RE:GROUP
Sunday, February 27, 2011
5pm @ ECC
North Auditorium

A night four our small group life leaders and hosts to come together for coaching, leadership development, camaraderie, stories from the front, and encouragement.

Dinner served. Childcare provided.


The concept behind this night is to rally our leadership and see where we have been and where we are headed as a church of small groups. See YOU there!

SMALL GROUPS- Initiate, ACTIVATE, Demonstrate

Small Groups are an important part of the body of Christ. Each person should have people around them that can do life together. Life is not meant to be lived alone, and for those who do-it can end up very sad. The thought that keeps coming back to me as I look at SMall Group LIfe @ ECC this year is this. SMALL GROUPS must ACTIVATE. Activate is a word that gets most of its meanings from science. Check out it's meanings:
–verb (used with object), -vat·ed, -vat·ing.
1. to make active; cause to function or act.
2. Physics .
a. to render more reactive; excite: to activate a molecule.
b. to induce radioactivity.
3. to aerate (sewage) in order to accelerate decomposition of impure organic matter by microorganisms.
4. Chemistry .
a. to make (carbon, a catalyst, molecules, etc.) more active.
b. to hasten (reactions) by various means, as heating.
5. to place (a military unit or station) on an active status in an assigned capacity.

When I read that definition-I think immediately that is what small group life should be about at ECC. It has been said that faith needs to be initiated, activated, and demonstrated. I think the same is true for SMALL GROUP LIFE. We must activate ourselves into small groups. This is where we will grow, be challenged, live life-bothe the ups and downs with others. We are about creating cultures that provide opportunities for discipleship, connecting in God's Word, and holding each other up. To do that, some of us must RE-activate. Let's stop talking about it now-and this year let's ACTIVATE small group life.