WANTED: Outgoing, caring, knowledgeable and brilliant person or couple who will take a group of non-connected people and meld them into a genuine community that will live life together.
Clichés aside, if you post that job description on your small group page, chances are you will kill every chance of recruiting the very people you are looking for.
Many times when you are looking for recruit a small group leader, you have a certain profile in mind. So you start there, thinking that you couldn’t possibly trust people looking for community with less, that you would somehow be endangering the people who want a small group.
But let’s face it.
Good group leaders are grown, not found. It’s good to have an end in mind, but you need to have a place to start. And the place to start is with outgoing people who love God and want to help others. If you can get those two bases covered, then the rest can come later. They need to be outgoing, or if it’s a couple, at least one of them needs to be, because people want to be with people they want to be with. Groups that don’t last are ones in which people don’t want to hang out together. There’s no perceived benefit from it.
What then? A leadership development plan needs to be in place that contains lots of relational time, face to face interaction that gives you opportunity to pour into the leader. Some of it just hang out time and some intentional training time, either one on one or in small groups (imagine that!)
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