Home Group Guides

We hope you had a great time with your group this week and just wanted to reach out and give some good information about the new home group guides program.  Please take a few minutes and read over this info.  Thanks!

What is a home group guide?

Starting this fall, Hope will be pairing home group leaders in home group clusters.  We will be asking you to meet with your cluster once every other month for coffee, lunch, or dinner.  These meetings aren’t meant to be long, just a way to talk about the good/bad things going on in your group, share wins, encourage each other, and find creative ways to serve our community together.

Hope is looking for one leader in each cluster to be a guide.  The home group guide will establish a meeting time that works for everybody, and help facilitate discussion about life in your home groups and the impact 40-50 people (5 home groups) can have in our community.  The key word is facilitate. We will be encouraging guides to keep their job simple and relational.  Our resources will include: providing service ideas, taking “wins” from your cluster and communicating those to the church, routing questions and ideas to church leadership, and helping resolve small group related issues.

How will groups be formed?

We’ll be grouping all home group leaders into clusters based on your geographical location and will try to accommodate any personal preferences you may have.  We want you to be with people that have the same passions, or share the same community interests you may already have.  I will send out an email specifically asking for any preferences in an upcoming email.

What are you asking of me?

We would like for you to consider becoming a home group guide. We already have about 13 individuals and just need 5-10 more to make sure that every group has a guide. This leadership role will add just minutes to your month because we are already putting all leaders into guide groups. There is minimal training and time commitment, but a maximum benefit to the people in all home groups and our community.  We need these spots to be filled by September 30^th so all home groups can benefit from this program

If you’d like more information, or have questions, please contact me Aaron Lee at aaronl@gethope.net or 919.532.0620