SG² Steve Gladen on Small Groups

Do you need more small group leaders? How would you like to see an exponential increase of volunteers stepping up to serve in your church? Steve Gladen, Global Small Groups Pastor at Saddleback Church, pulls from his 20+ years of small group ministry experience to encourage and equip listeners to lead healthier, growing and more effective small group ministries. In this episode, Steve is joined by co-host Derek and special guest John Shin (One of the Connections Pastors at Saddleback Church) who shares his 8 Steps to Successful Recruiting. You are not going to want to miss this episode!

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Notes: 
8 Steps to Successful Recruiting

1) Write down your pain points (your needs for ministry volunteers)
2) Think beyond the norm and get creative
3) Pain Levels from Easy, Need, and Pain (and describing each level)
4) Special Tip—Think about behind the scenes ministry (no interaction with people and ministry that involves lots of people engagement. You should try to recruit everyone and anyone to your ministry)
5) 4 Step practical plan to recruit
- Talk to people you know
- Find out what they enjoy and don’t enjoy
- Focus on their passion (No matter what they say here, get them to serve with you. Make up a role for them)
- Recruit person for 1 time help or opportunity
6 Always say thank you to your volunteers (cards, gifts, meals). Show appreciation
7 Don’t let them get bored. Create a development pathway. Some volunteers maybe can take on more responsibility and leadership roles.
8 Set a deadline to recruit. Nothing happens without deadlines

You can download your planner HERE and the church planner HERE and the full workbook from the conference HERE
Check out the videos referenced in the podcast HERE

Welcome to SG squared. Glad you joined us for this episode. In this particular one, we're going to be talking about how small groups just aren't a program in the church, but they are a powerful discipleship tool that your church has. As you know, we talk about temple courts and house to house and the house to house movement is your discipleship engine. Now we're going to cover so many things about the transformational power of small groups, but the important thing  to understand is that it needs to happen in your own group. And as we go through this material, I want you to start thinking through, okay, how does this pertain to where my small group is?

And what am I doing in my own group? Now, as we talk about a number of things in this episode, make sure you download the resources at the top of the show notes and understand that that material is there for you to take this from just being a podcast that you listen to, but something that can transform your small groups and help you make them a discipleship engine.

I want you to enjoy as we take a little flashback on this particular episode, but it's great content that will help you make the discipleship tool powerful in your small group.

Steve Gladen, Global Small Groups Pastor at Saddleback Church, pulls from his 20+ years of small group ministry experience to encourage and equip listeners to lead healthier, growing and more effective small group ministries. In this episode, Steve is joined by co-host Derek and special guests Mark Grunden and Ron Kelleher to talk about 5 Steps to Creating a Workplace Ministry:

1 Cast a vision
2 Create a leadership team
3 Convene a launch event
4 Compile study resources
5 Continue with training

Shownotes:

saddleback.com/workplace

worklifebiblestudy.org

Mark Grunden / [email protected]

Ron Kelleher / [email protected]
5 Steps to Starting a Workplace Ministry at your Church

1. How do you handle unclear or wrong communication?
2. How do you handle worry?
3. How do you figure out who's after you?
4. How do you handle failure?

7 Lessons Learned from Face Plants
1. Think through your response and LISTEN
2. The response is always done with humility
3. Everything we do is being watched by the world
4. We must make sure our impact matches our intent
5. We can be creative without being offensive
6. When dealing with upset people, pray with them and have them pray too
7. TEACH -  True, Encouraging, Age Appropriate, Culturally Honoring, How would Jesus respond?

You can download your planner HERE and the church planner HERE
Check out the videos referenced in the podcast HERE

Everyone's got excuses... and here are 5 of the most common. But if you are hearing one (or all) of these excuses in your small group ministry, how should you respond? Listen to Steve's talk from the Purpose Driven Small Groups conference to get prepared for the next time you hear an excuse.

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And to connect with Steve Gladen as well as other small group pastors from around the world, check out https://go.smallgroupnetwork.com

1. How do you handle unclear or wrong communication?
2. How do you handle worry?
3. How do you figure out who's after you?
4. How do you handle failure?

7 Lessons Learned from Face Plants
1. Think through your response and LISTEN
2. The response is always done with humility
3. Everything we do is being watched by the world
4. We must make sure our impact matches our intent
5. We can be creative without being offensive
6. When dealing with upset people, pray with them and have them pray too
7. TEACH -  True, Encouraging, Age Appropriate, Culturally Honoring, How would Jesus respond?