Macedonia UMC Connect Groups

Connect Groups Walking with Jesus Week of 10/1/17 Texts: 1 Samuel 1, John 15:5 I. Time to Share Life and Fellowship (10-20 min) Enjoy some informal time with your group, encouraging people to get to know one another.  Once your group has settled in, invite responses to this question: Who in your life has exemplified walking with Jesus? II. Prayer and Accountability (20-30 min) Invite your group to follow-up on the questions and areas that they shared the previous week. Now might be a good time to consider one of the questions together—you could prep your group ahead of time that you’ll be focusing on one specific question this week. Some groups might find it helpful to actually have “accountability buddies”—and have people split in pairs or groups of 3 to talk more in depth about the questions and pray for one another that way.  You could even switch buddies each week by literally drawing everyone’s name from a hat.  It depends on your gr...

Our Values: Spirit-Driven Commitment Week of 9/24/17 Hanging Out (10-20 min) Enjoy some casual time together catching up as a group.  Once you’re ready, ask the group this question: When is a time that you grew most in your faith?  Covenant -Have a printed-up version available for the group members to see. -Have each group member sign one copy that you as the leader will keep.  Prayer and Accountability (20-30 min) Remind your group of the Measures questions.  If you need hard copies of them, here is a link to the vision one-page sheet.  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BznuUIWFLGXdaWZGTlJuWS1sb00/view?usp=sharing Invite your group to share how specific areas they shared last week are going or went.  Have them share anew their answers to the Measures questions.  If there is a specific one that your group chooses to focus on this week, that’s OK.  Have your group pray together.  If there is not time for every...

Hanging Out (10-20 min) Take time to get to know each other’s names and something about them.  As you go around your circle, consider sharing their answer to this question: What is one thing that you associate most with home? After you’ve met one another, talk about the Covenant together (unless you’ve already done this and you’re a Sunday morning group).  You are welcome to look at the covenant we used in training for an example https://gochristfellowship.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/11.Sample_Life_Group_Covenant.pdf You might also develop the things you will commit to by answering these questions together:               What is the purpose of our group?               How are we going to handle trust and confidentiality?             What are we going to do to commit ourselv...