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/
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prepared 14.März, 2002