A Winning Weekend

What an amazing weekend equipping, encouraging, & being entertained by group leaders!!!  The annual Group Leader Retreat was a huge success, and I so appreciate everyone that carved out time in their busy summer schedule to hang out with us.  We laid out the groundwork for our new groups vision & structure and our new approach to team leadership within groups.

If you missed out, I want to personally make sure you get as much info from the retreat as possible, so we are going to be wrapping much of the content into our New Group Leader Training sessions happening monthly this Fall.  The next one is scheduled for August 17th from 6:45pm-8:30 on Sunday night.

Also, our next big CONNECTION EVENT (GroupLink at Journey) will be happening on September 7th, and leaders that would like to add members should plan on attending the Aug 17th training in order to recruit at the Sept 7th GroupLink.

Finally, I just wrapped up our men’s study this morning for the summer and it reminded me that I am so blessed to serve, study, & ‘do life with’ such devoted & talented Christ followers in our groups.  Tell someone thank you today for ‘doing life with’ you also!

Fireworks in July!

Obvoiusly there are the normal fireworks celebrating the independence of the United States & a wonderful excuse for any dad to enjoy setting fire to stuff with his kids…  but that is not all of the fireworks this month for Journey Groups.  Here are some terrific highlights worth celebrating…

Journey Group Leader Retreat THIS WEEKEND – Huge vision, guest speakers, philosophy & theology changes to our groups ministry model…all coming in just a few short days!  RSVP today if you haven’t already…

Our House series kicked off this last weekend and is ’stage time’ for the message that the House of God (the church) is only established through the House of God (in us & our families)…anybody see Groups written all over that???  DVD curriculum available this Sunday.

New Staff addtion of Don Overton to the team as the Senior Executive Pastor over Adult Ministry…or just “Don” will work also.  Please welcome him aboard!

New Calendar for the year scheduled with huge amounts of resources & regular training opportunities for you and your group’s leadership team…including a New Leader Training on 8/17, GroupLink on 9/7, and brand new Grow Groups & teaching curriculum the week of 9/7.

If you’ve considered leadership of groups for yourself (or others) at Journey now is the perfect time to take the next step and plan on attending or inviting others to attend our new leader training this August. 

Blessings to you all as we see a city transformed, one group at a time.

The RETREAT is coming!!!! Wahoo!!!

That’s right!  The 2008 Journey Groups Leader Retreat is coming very soon on July 18th & 19th!  I hope you have all enjoyed your RoadTrip CDs and are getting ready for an awesome RoadTrip: Embarking on God’s Adventure Together.

A Vision talk from Clark, worship with Kyle, catering from Goldie’s, vision about group purpose & planning for the Fall by our Group Leadership team!  The retreat center has hotel style accommodations so just bring your Bible, your spouse, your apprentice leader & spouse, & your toiletries and you’ll be all set.

Registration is after 5:30pm and dinner starts at 6:00pm on Friday the 19th.  The last session concludes at 11:30am on Saturday the 20th.

RSVP to Herschel.