Life GROUP LEADER

COACH: Cameron Pacheco

WHY?

Part of the church discipleship pipeline/journey, Life Groups are essential places for people to commit to fellowship. The care and growth that a Life Group and LG Leader can provide is something most people will never get to experience. You have the opportunity to invest and walk alongside each person in the highs and lows of life.

Life Group leaders can be seen as deacons and deaconesses
(1 Timothy 3:8-13), serving and encouraging those in their care. You are modeling a life of character to those in your group and in the church. As Jesus led, you are to also lead sacrificially for those in your group and church.

Role

Lead
  • Facilitate Questions during Life Group with excitement
    • You set the environment & culture - Ex. background music, be lively & warm.
    • Spread the conversation around.
    • Leave open space to process after asking questions - silence is alright, but be aware of how long. Be ready to speak up or provide clarity to the questions.
    • Learn to discern what to do with “rabbit trails” in conversation & how to focus it back again.
    • Lead humbly - it’s ok to not know an answer. “Good question, I will research this week and get back to you next week.”
  • Invite others to your Life Group - from church, events, outside church
  • Schedule 1 serve-opportunity or outreach as a group each semester (join a church planned event or plan your own) 
    • Ex: Homeless outreach, Foster care fundraiser, game-night inviting non-believers, Evangelism push, Community outreach, etc.

Care
  • Encourage members each week 
    • Leader and co-leaders send texts (encouragement, prayers, verses); verbally and publicly encourage them when you see them.
  • Follow up about prayer requests at group, Sundays, & events.
  • Schedule meet ups with members and Gospel Appointments with new people.

Train
  • Ideally, you will also have a co-leader or two.
  • Give them opportunities to lead out. 
    • Ex: They could lead a fun ice-breaker or game before the study; they could share the starter question with excitement; they could write all the prayer requests for the group; they could pray for the group; they could share the upcoming announcements
  • Plan the flow of the group together prior to Life Group - Who is leading which section? Pray together.
  • Debrief together after Life Group and plan for follow up of members. 
  • Plan ahead for the upcoming weeks & contact your coach for further questions.