Hoffnung für verletzte Herzen

Werten – was wichtig ist

Values – what is important

LOCAL MINISTRY – What is important for the Local Ministry?

- Prayer Support
- Local Church Leadership Support
- Church-based (providing community for those walking through 12 week course)
- Stay connected with other small groups/people in area/Austria
- Autonomous
- On-going Leader connection/support/growth
- Participants cover financial costs – other charging is decided by each group

# SMALL GROUP LEADERS – What type of leaders do we want to be?

- Stay in the process of growing/learning/healing
- Integrity – knowing what you can and cannot do, who you are and are not
- Lead from own healing process/experience rather than knowledge and know-how
- Have received training or walked through the 12 week material
- Have begun to resolve own issues with the hope to not become the issue in group
- Be in team/church – have a local support structure
- Lay people – every day people leading groups
- Willing to engage personally in small group

# SMALL GROUP CONTEXT – What do we want our small groups to look like?

- Trust-building
- Confidentiality
- Safety
- Seeking permission to speak into other’s lives
- Walking together in the process
- Learning environment
- Learning to respond well
- Sitting in the mess with one another
- Mirroring truth/God’s love/heart
- Knowing the Holy Spirit does the healing/changing
- Wanting us to move beyond the victim mentality
- Seeking to stay in the “here and now” process
- Giving to others out of our own pain and healing
- Affirming dignity in one another/exposing depravity
- Calling out God’s Image in one another

NoAm website: http://www.gospelcom.net/openhearts/salts/

- prepared 14.März, 2002