Connect Groups are the life blood of Hope City Church - it is where pastoral care happens!
Currently there are a couple of groups still operating that were from the Malak Campus. They will continue, but we are having the leaders of these groups trained and mentored first through the pre- Encounter, Encounter and post-Encounter pathways. Great feedback is already coming from this process and we look forward to hearing more testimonies.
The main training for connect group leaders though is the School of Leaders which is the training we all need to go through. School of Leaders takes place after you go through the Encounter pathway ... and for 28 leaders from the Malak Campus there is only 7 weeks left of that. Congratulations for sticking with the process. Whether you have been a Christain for 40 years or 4 months you are are leader - whether or not you yourself see that - the fact is YOU ARE! But all leaders need growth, training and mentoring ... and this provides that.
Pastor Don and Priscilla will be running an open Connect group at our place (Kieran and Debs) on tuesday nights ...
this is from 7-8 pm
The PURPOSE is so Deb and I and those that attend can learn, capture and then impart the d.n.a and vision of our Senior Pastors to others and to also help build the culture that they instil so that we may all be on the same page.
One Vision is required. One God. One Heart. One Hope
more than one vision creates (di)-vision .... so the pathways of leadership and discipleship are important ...
I see peoples lives being genuinely touched as we all grow in this - and I see salvations happening through connect groups before unchurched friends even enter a church service. It is about relationship, not religion. Connection to God not conversion. Transformation, not conformation.
I see that our tag line which is 'providing hope and purpose for living' can and will be a reality
Always Hope ...
Currently there are a couple of groups still operating that were from the Malak Campus. They will continue, but we are having the leaders of these groups trained and mentored first through the pre- Encounter, Encounter and post-Encounter pathways. Great feedback is already coming from this process and we look forward to hearing more testimonies.
The main training for connect group leaders though is the School of Leaders which is the training we all need to go through. School of Leaders takes place after you go through the Encounter pathway ... and for 28 leaders from the Malak Campus there is only 7 weeks left of that. Congratulations for sticking with the process. Whether you have been a Christain for 40 years or 4 months you are are leader - whether or not you yourself see that - the fact is YOU ARE! But all leaders need growth, training and mentoring ... and this provides that.
Pastor Don and Priscilla will be running an open Connect group at our place (Kieran and Debs) on tuesday nights ...
this is from 7-8 pm
The PURPOSE is so Deb and I and those that attend can learn, capture and then impart the d.n.a and vision of our Senior Pastors to others and to also help build the culture that they instil so that we may all be on the same page.
One Vision is required. One God. One Heart. One Hope
more than one vision creates (di)-vision .... so the pathways of leadership and discipleship are important ...
I see peoples lives being genuinely touched as we all grow in this - and I see salvations happening through connect groups before unchurched friends even enter a church service. It is about relationship, not religion. Connection to God not conversion. Transformation, not conformation.
I see that our tag line which is 'providing hope and purpose for living' can and will be a reality
Always Hope ...
I like it how you have inorporated one vision into our one God one hope one heart. Vision is an interesting thing because when something is presented to people everyone can have a different interpretation so we need clarity and an understanding of vision
ReplyDeleteyeah too true Marina ... Hab 2:2 (CEV)says ...
ReplyDeleteThen the LORD told me:
"I will give you my message
in the form of a vision.
Write it clearly enough
to be read at a glance.
So we need to get better at articulating vision ... some versions say people run with it (that is vision) but the truth is also some people will run from it as it is not necessarily for them or they cannot run with it for some reason or another ... that's okay too. But there is an onus for us then to make the vision plain - so they can come to the conclusion they need to. Somehting we are certainly working on ... and attempting to get better at.