Live Blogging Session 5

Doug Fields: Fellowship

• 1. Smaller is better when focusing on Fellowship (building relationships)
• Christ had a group of 12 but invested in 3
• Figure out how to make “Large” Feel “Small”
• 2. Volunteer leaders are better than paid leaders.
• Paid leaders’ main focus should be to develop other volunteer youth workers, the volunteers job is to love on kids.
• 3. Shepherds are Better than Chaperons
• 4. Better is Better – Tweak, Twist, Don’t Settle
• Messy people need a small group
• “If you build a place where Students can share their hurts and pain, they will come” – Megan Hutchinson
• “Hurt and abandonment in teenagers in pandemic in our world today and in our youth groups–every single teen hurts.” Megan Hutchinson
• “Pain is always top down” – Hutchinson
• If the church doesn’t do anything to help the hurting, who will?
• There is more than one way to do small groups
• Small Group leaders need to be set up for success
• Empower small group leaders to be their kids’ youth pastor
• Small Groups rise and fall based on their leader
• Small Groups are the Bridge to the next steps (Discipleship – Ministry)
• The bottom line is to cultivate relational capital – Ben Taylor