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Advice on heading up women's small group
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I am in the midst of planning my church’s ladies’ bible study. We all homeschool and so when we meet, most children will be amongst us. Since most of us have an average of 5 or more kids, this gets a little crazy. It will be in homes and there must be a sense of order for furthering fellowship of the moms during our time together as well as the children having a nice time as well.
I’ve been praying and just thought I’d ask if any of you have these circumstances and have maintained a successful group going? If anything, I might even split us up and rotate families in each others homes, and meeting twice a month ( if that would be more simple.) What do y’all think? Ideas?
Are there any older daughters in the families who could watch the younger ones? Or perhaps one of the moms could do a Bible lesson with the children, and the moms could rotate each week?
We have a mom’s Bible study at church, and the children go to another room to do an age appropriate lesson on the same study we are doing.
Hmmm, I like the idea of the kids doing a short lesson too on the same topic. Thanks! What kind of topics/material do you use for your group and kids? Also, we do have older girls that are wonderful help but the problem lies more within not enough space and crowding issue. :0
I just talked with hubby who thought the idea of rotating moms monthly is good. We would have 3-4 families in each home, then switch families the next month. This way we all get to fellowship with different families.
Our group meets just once monthly on an evening at Panera bread – no kids… except nursing babies – it’s a huge blessing to get together and not have any kids, but it’s also only once a month so it doesn’t take away from our families as a whole or put an undue burden on our husbands… we also don’t ban children, so if a mom doesn’t have childcare she can bring her kids with quiet activities.
Yes I’ve thought about once a month. So much easier! But I feel the Lord is calling our families to be pushed a little more to see each other for encouragement. There is a strong need for this right now, as we are working out some difficult issues.
Maybe you could do once a month without kids and then the other time rotate like you were thinking before – this would give more cohesiveness to the group by having a least one meeting a month with everyone there.
Great ideas, your group sounds like it will be a blessing! My husband was a Small Group Pastor for 15 yrs., and one thing he always encouraged and what we always do in our groups is accountability….but not for several months, to give people a chance to get comfortable with each other and sharing more intimately. It’s amazing to me how long I can know friends and we never have a clue as to whether we’re reading our bibles, loving our families well, etc. It’s done confidentially, and in a non-judgmental, encouraging way. Just a thought, because it’s so helpful for personal growth to be able to share our struggles in a safe place and have prayer and accountability. Blessings on your group! Gina
We also do a Bible Study where teens watch the younger kids during the actuall study/discussion. They do a short devotional type study with them and sometimes a craft or something. It works well for us.
We do Precept studies – very in depth. The older kids (grades 3+ or good readers) do one of the children’s studies by Janet Arndt. One of the moms wrote the lessons for the younger kids (grades K-2), and she leads the study with them. They have “homework” to do throughout the week, and then they come together for the lesson to discuss it. Last year we did “Lord, I Want to Know You” (the names of God). This past semester we did the study on Daniel. We covered the first 6 chapters of Daniel. This next semester I believe we’ll be doing the study on Abraham. It is enough Bible for the kids for homeschooling, but since we are doing the SCM modules too we are getting lots of Bible!
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