Posts by Mark Howell
Miles McPherson: GroupLife Session 5
Redefine your evangelistic starting point. God responding to the cries of a broken world. That’s the starting point. “I’ve heard your people crying.” Exodus 3:6 When we stop hearing the cries of people… Identify God’s response to the brokenness of your own life. When we begin to feel like we’re fixed and we are now…
Read MoreGroupLife Session Three: Dr. Will Miller
Dr. Will Miller was hilarious last night. I have to tell you that that is a HUGE understatement. When he was telling about driving someone else’s beater car I very nearly wet my pants, which according to Bill Search is about the bladder (as opposed to the bowels as John Burke mentioned). Ever seen Will…
Read MoreGroupLife: Everything is an Experiment
Creative Community for Emerging Generations: Ten principles: Embrace the individual. This generation is a complex one culturally. It will be a relational model that reaches this generation. Keep some great questions in your back pocket as you sit down with someone. “Which fruit of the spirit is working most in your life right now?” Give…
Read MoreGroupLife: Mark Batterson and Heather Zempel
Batterson’s story is really engaging. The beginning of National Community Church in Washington D.C. is a really good story. Don’t know it? You can check out Mark’s blog right here. It was one of the first blogs I ran across a little over 3 years ago. Great way to eavesdrop on a really cool story.…
Read MoreComedy at Group Life 2008
Session starts with a hilarious rendition of a small group experience through the eyes of the Wizard of Oz characters (ala Mystery Science Theater 3000). That was HILARIOUS.
Read MoreGroup Life 2008
And so it begins. Bill Donahue warming up the crowd. Telling the story of how it all began 10 years ago. Good times. I always wonder about any conference where they’d have me do a breakout, but this a.m. was a lot of fun. Wish you’d been here. If you want to follow along with…
Read MoreCommunity and Social Media
Here for Group Life at Willow? In a few minutes I’ll be walking over to join the discussion in a pre-conference experience (love that word), Community and Social Media: FaceBook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter… is it possible to experience "virtual" community without ever meeting face-to-face? (Does iChat count as face-to-face?) Not sure how qualified I am…
Read MoreMeet Up at Willow!
I mentioned earlier this summer that I’ll be doing a breakout (Getting to There: Building a Dynamic Small Group Ministry) at Willow’s Group Life conference. It’s this week. You can read more right here. Are you going to be here? Be sure and Email Me. It’d be great to have coffee one morning.
Read MoreThe Tangible Kingdom
My cool friend Bryan Doyle gave me a copy of The Tangible Kingdom the other day and it caught me right away! You won’t find a more engaging book about incarnational community. The story of Hugh Halter, Matt Smay and Adullam will grab you by page 3. When you get to the chapter on the…
Read MoreSimple Small Groups
Looking for leader training ideas? Simple Small Groups, newly released by Baker Books and written by Bill Search, a veteran small group practitioner, is a great new resource designed to make effective small group ministry simple. Rather than over-complicate the subject, Search isolates three simple and essential ingredients that every effective group must have, identifies…
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