ID – Discovering Who You Truly Are
Small Group Facilitator Training – September 23, 2013
Our Vision
Our Mission
Making Disciples of Jesus
Our Values
Being authentic
Sharing Jesus Christ
Living the Word of God
Giving and receiving grace
Following the Holy Spirit
Practicing healthy relationships
Acting socially responsibly
The Search For
Significance
This study will give us an
accurate understanding
of our Identify in Christ
based on God’s Word.
The Search For
Significance
• Facilitation guide & Beyond Sunday
www.wearepcc.com/adults/groups
• Bookmark = Schedule
Getting Ready
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Contact your group prior to 10/6
Do Week 1 & 2 in The Search for Significance
Use Facilitation Guide
Pray for your group members by name
Expectations of
Facilitators
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Walk deep
Prepare for the week’s lesson
Engage with and encourage your group members
Trust God for the outcome!
Suggestions for
Facilitators
• Model the Seven Values
• Use the Group Agreement in the first Group Meeting
• Facilitate. Don’t Teach.
Group Agreement
• I will complete The Search For Significance Weekly
Devotionals.
• I will attend all 8 sessions unless there is an emergency.
• I will commit to confidentiality.
• I will actively engage.
• I will refrain from dominating the discussion, judgment,
or giving advice.
• I will pray for myself and for this group.
Suggestions for
Facilitators continues…
• Establish ground rules for your discussions
• Timeline for a Group Meeting
• Make Childcare arrangements together – Evaluate as
you go.
Support
• Questions or Concerns: janetm@wearepcc.com
• Mid-Course Facilitator Check-in = Sunday, 10/27 at
noon (Room 20)
Ground Rules
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Honor time
Confidentiality
Keep discussions personal
Make sure everyone gets a chance to share
Draw out the quiet ones
Don’t respond to someone with ideas to “fix” his/her problem.
Acknowledge people when they share
Sample Timeline for a
Group Meeting
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7:00-7:15 – Connection/Fellowship
7:15-8:15 – Group Discussion (start this on-time!)
8:15-8:30 – Prayer Requests
8:15-8:45 - Prayer
8:50…. you are done and it gives people time to get on
their way by 9:00
Ephesians 1:15-19a (NIV)
For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord
Jesus and your love for all God’s people, I have not stopped giving
thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the
God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the
Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I
pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you
may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his
glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great
power for us who believe.