February Life Group Training in the Northwest Postponed to April

The NWBC has postponed the Life Group Training in the Northwest in order to allow for more churches to participate.  The schedule as we know it is listed above.

February LG Teacher and Coordinator Breakout Session Notes

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

1:00pm - ~2:15pm

 

Persons in Attendance: Bob Hagman, Russ Dusky, Donna Dusky, Jean Gard, Patti Ramos, Toby Zimmerman, Danine Brewer, Ted Cook

 

• Life Group Training in the NW
  
  • Had everybody mark down the dates that should interest them.
    
  • As soon as we know more information we will need to send it out.
    
  • Carpool from the church.
    
  • AR Torrey - check with Stewardship Team about helping with funding. NWBC says $10 per person. Is this for each session?
    
• We will be trying the Ministry Point Curriculum for March, April, May quarter
  
  • For this trial period:
    
    • Preference is verse-by-verse to start out with, similar to what we are doing now with Explore The Bible (ETB).
      
    • Choose a study that is about 12 weeks in length, so we can jump back to ETB if we choose to.
      
    • Preference would be for a New Testament study for the trial period.
      
    • Torrey made it clear to all that we will not be a church that only studies the New Testament, but we need to keep accountable to studying both the Old Testament and New Testament.
      
    • Based on this criteria the two leading options are:
      
      • Hebrews - 13 week study (completed November 2006, recommended commentary is Hebrews by Donald Guthrie)
        
      • Phillipians - 11 week study (completed August 2002, recommended commentary is The MacArthur New Testament Commentary Philippians)
        
  • AR Torrey - check with Stewardship Team and Dede as to when we could place the order for curriculum
    
  • AR Torrey / Office - When we receive the curriculum, print out all the material stapled together for the teachers. Right now this would be around 10 copies (teachers and substitutes).
    
  • AR Torrey / Office - For the students print out a stapled together packet of just the "Thee Word for The Week". This would be very similar to our learner guides we use now.
    
  • Visual element (i.e. video clips)
    
    • Video clips were well received.
      
    • As a side note: Talked with several people about helping with DVD creating. Torrey would like to get a team of 2 or 3 people to be able to share the duties of creating the DVDs. Provide Torrey with any possible interested people.
      
    • Once we have a single DVD, the duplicator in the sound booth can be used to make copies. In a trial run it seemed to take about 5 minutes to make 3 additional copies.
      
• Teacher and Coordinator Job Descriptions
  
  • AR Torrey - Somehow make it more clear that the Coordinator's main job is communication and enlisting the coordinators. The job description can seem overwhelming.
    
  • Pointed out that Class Coordinator has a 15 minute period of the class time to make announcements, etc. This won't be legalistically enforced, but is expected to vary a bit from class to class and a week to week basis.
    
  • AR Torrey - On the Job Description sheet need to add a list of all of the Primary Team leaders and their contact information (phone number, email).
    
  • There needs to be two way communication between the Primary Team Leaders and the class coordinators.
    
  • AR Office - Primary Team Leaders and contact information should be added to the first page of the church directory.
    
• Quarterly Team Huddle scheduling
  
  • Preference would be for Saturday afternoon/evening.
    
  • Times could vary based on the season. Seniors may have trouble driving as late as 7pm in the winter.
    
  • Saturday afternoon would most likely miss most of the kids' sports as many happen on Saturday morning.
    
  • Bit of preference for ending the meeting earlier than 7pm. Perhaps having it 2pm-5pm, or 3pm-6pm.
    
  • There seemed to be flexibility with the understanding that it was only once a quarter.
    

The time can vary from quarter to quarter based on the season and the needs of the meeting and calendaring issues.