Cabeça means head in Portuguese. (Don't say I never taught you anything.)
Tonight our whole small group team meets to talk, you guessed it, small groups.
This is the third season of small groups at Richview, since our Taskforce first got together three summers ago to discuss implementing SG's at Richview. Since then we have trained leaders. We have had some successes, some failures. We have gained some leaders and lost some leaders. We have seen relationship and spiritual growth take place. And we've seen people gather just because they were supposed to be somewhere on whatever night it was their group was meeting. But overall we've kept moving forward. Everything hasn't been perfect for a number of reasons, but God has been gracious. This season promises to be exciting, it looks (knock on wood) that I might have a little more quality time to devote to the effort and there's almost a buzz in the air. The next few months should be fun (and busy as can be) as we plan for our start-up in October.
With the excitement comes the danger. This is where we could really mess it up. To fail this season is to potentially do some potentially irrepairable damage. Also some new challenges will take us to another level of what it means for us to do small groups in our setting. Most of all I'm longing for faithfulness, both from me and my leaders. A true commitment to shepherd their flock. To "feed their sheep" because they love Jesus and for no other reason at all.
I'm looking forward to tonight's dialogue!
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