Ideas To Make The Most Of The Holidays Season As A Group
Although the end of the year can be a time of family, friends, and celebration the span between Thanksgiving-to-New-Year’s can be a tricky time for your small group. Plan for a strong ending to the year by being intentional about it! The next month and a half can actually be a great opportunity to strengthen your group’s sense of community and purpose.
Here are some ideas to make the most of the holiday season as a group:
Serve together as a group.
Look for an opportunity to serve, pick a project, or choose a family to bless. Serving together will do a unique work within your group, it will create a memory that is tied together by a by a focus that is external from the group – this is a powerful thing. Some of my greatest memories with my greatest friends are connected to serving together!
Have fun!
This a great time of the year to have fun together! Attend an event together or use your group time to throw a party.
Take communion.
Sharing communion together is a great way to remember why Jesus came to this earth.
1 Corinthians 11:23-26 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
Celebrate The Wins.
Pick a night to look back on all that God has done within the lives of those who are in your group. As the group leader be prepared with examples that you’ve thought of in advance. What prayers have you been en answered? What lives have been touched? What lives have changed? Have marriages be healed? Was there a topic or study that really impacted the group?
Plan now so that you can end your year as group strong! Talk to your group, see what works, and then make a plan!
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