As you know, a year ago we instituted a layer of ministry in LifeGroup world called Guides. These people were put in place to create more access for our group leaders to prayerful support, as well as help for them in thinking and deciding through the week-to-week details that help keep our groups on mission. These individuals have been a great help for many of our groups and God has done some wonderful things through the interactions and relationships that have been formed.
We have, a year after of implementation and continued analysis, decided to take a different approach, and are ending the Guide ministry as it currently exists. The work of these Guides was extremely diligent and near flawless, but the structure, for our growing church, just isn't what's best for who we are. As critical as our groups and their leadership are, we will always strive for what's best.
As the Guide Ministry is discontinued, we want to make sure that each of you leaders knows that you always have an open door with Jenny Rogers and myself to provide for your leadership needs. We look forward to being able to implement the next phase of leadership support and guidance, and will definitely keep you up to date on that. And, as always, we love getting feedback from you about how we can best serve you and come along side the important work you do week in and week out.
A very sincere thanks goes to Joey and Jeremy Hansen, Paul and Jacki Nickerson and Jan Kempe for their tireless efforts in Guiding and loving group leaders so well. They have been so great to work and dream with, and share our enthusiasm that we are going to be able to use all we've learned in the last year to take our LifeGroup ministry, and all the leaders involved, a lot further down the path God has created for our community. Thanks to each of them for laying the foundation for the next season of leadership care and development.
And thanks to you, LifeGroup leaders, for doing what you do so well.
Steve
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