Community Group Campaign - Brief Status

Our Community Group Campaign starts this weekend, October 6/7. To help start new groups for this campaign we need to do the following tasks:

1. Determine which new Community Groups will be able to have 6 people minimum by next weekend. These are the viable new groups that will have enough people to meet at the start of the campaign.

2. Give to these viable groups names from the list of people who have requested to join new Community Groups. Ask Community Hosts to call and invite these people to their groups in the next few days.

Groups need about six people to start the campaign. More people will be available to be added in the early weeks of the campaign.

Community Host Sign up Status

PAC is looking for people to host new Community Groups this fall. Going into this weekend, 72 people have already signed up to be new Community Hosts. They will host new Community Groups during the six week fall campaign which begins October 6/7. Included are two Chinese only groups and six Spanish speaking groups. Remember our goal was to add 45 to 50 new groups this fall so we are thrilled at this response. Of the new groups, 24 have been oriented and have received their DVD materials to be used during the six week campaign.

In addition, 13 have agreed to serve as Community Pastors helping connect the new community groups to PAC staff. All new Community Hosts will be given a Community Pastor to help resource them as well as connect them to PAC.

Community Host orientations are scheduled following Sunday sevices at 10:40 am and 12:30 am on September 16 and September 23. They are held in room 203. In addition, orientation will be available Monday nights, September 17, 24, and October 1 in Room 212 in the Great Room.

Following orientation, each new community host should attempt to find at least 4 to 6 people to join them. If they need to fill out their groups to the recommended 8 to 12 people, PAC will have a list of people who have requested being placed in a community group. Matches will be attempted based on location of community groups first and then children preferences and day of week of meetings.

Community HOST Sign up is going very well at PAC

We are finding and orienting new Community Hosts for our fall small group campaign at PAC. Remember our goal is to add 40 to 50 new small groups to the 35 exisitng groups at PAC. The campaign starts the weekend of October 6 and lasts for six weeks until the weekend of November 11.

To date (TA DA TA DAH) we have 49 people who have said they want to host a Community Group this fall. This is after the two weeks around Labor Day weekend with three prime weekends to go! All but one of these 49 is a new small group.

Right now PAC is trying to form as many new groups as possible this fall. We have already met our goal of 45 to 50 so the new goal is everyone be in a Community Group. This may be 80 to 100 new groups.

These are exciting times for PAC. Everything is changing at once this fall. This is a great chance to connect as many people as possible through the Community Group ministry.

I think it is important that new groups ask people into their groups that do not attend PAC such as neighbors, family, friends, etc. This is a great opportunity to include people into your groups that you may have thought about for a long time.

My vision remains that there are more people in Community Groups than attend our weekend services.