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What do you do for small groups?
This summer I'm about to organize some small groups. Few questions, How many do you try to keep your groups to? What all do you teach? What nights do you meet and how does that fit into the church and youth's normal weekly schedule?
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We try to keep our small groups to 8-10 students. Some houses have about 30 teens that show up and then split into smaller groups. We have groups meeting on Monday and Wednesday nights in homes for Sr. High and on Wednesdays at the church for Jr. High. And then I just started up a girls only Bible Study on Thursday nights after being asked for almost a year by the girls to do so.
As far as what is taught, that is left up to the youth leaders. They know their group of students better than anyone, so they choose what to teach geared towards what their students need. If they need help they can ask for suggestions.
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We tried small groups and they failed. Especially when we schedule them on different nights other than regularly scheduled nights. It was just another night on the calendar. |
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We have separate nights for small groups and our "youth group." We feel that we want our students that desire to grow being there for small groups. So to have new students in a small group is weird for everyone. |
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I try to not have more than 5 kids and one leader per group just because any more than that and kids cant voice up as much as Id like, and it will always get taken over by the 1 or group of 2 or 3 that are the loudest, so this way enables more people to actually partake. Right now, I do like someone else below, our youth nights (jr high sunday, sr. high wed) have game, worship, lesson, fellowship/refreshments, and small groups with questions based off the lesson. The groups we use are just whatever is there, get a group of 5 and go find a leader, so in the Fall Id like to keep this going as well as develop small groups outside of the youth night. |
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We do something called Electives. They are short term (4-6 weeks), topical small groups that we do each quarter. |
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We don't do small groups during the summer. Things are too sporadic. During the school year our small groups meet on Sunday night (the same night as our youth worship). This way all youth events are in one night and not spread out throughout the week. We use symlive.com for our curriculum. They have done a great job in making it easy for adult leaders. I go in and pick the topics that goes along with what I am speaking on that night. Our groups have 2 adults and 6-10 students. The main purpose is fellowship with some discipleship. We have seen great growth in our small groups because we have great leaders. |
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We are just getting started as well. Here is what we will be doing at first so our leaders won't feel overwhelmed but eventually we'll move deeper. We'll have regular group Bible study on Sunday night where I'll teach a 15-20 min lesson. then let the kids break up into small groups (JHBys/JHgirls/HSboys/HSgirls) and discuss the lesson. The leader will have a list of open ended, discussion-oriented questions based on my lesson. Eventually, though, I want these groups to meet away from church (someone's home) and also do some activities together as a small group. With teens, I think it's important to separate gender and separate by JH and HS if you have enough kids to do it. |
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Our small groups are on Sunday nights and go over either the pastors sermon or the youth sermon. |
