- Continue as is - 13 weeks (end mid-May)
- Meet longer each Sunday night (start at 5 or 5:30 with soup) - 13 weeks
- Split video and discussion - 26 weeks (end Aug/Sept)
- Meet another day of the week for further discussion - 13 weeks
Please give me your opinion on which option suits you most. I really appreciate Brad's urging for us to truly make this "transformational". So, how do we do that and make it work with everyone's busy schedules?
Thanks!
The blogging should be great and I proposed we follow Shelly's "Soup Night" idea on the first Sunday of each month at 5:00 (attendance optional until 6:00). I'm still confused about how to access that snack and hosting schedule though. Larry tells me Poindexter posted it somewhere but I haven't seen it yet.
ReplyDeleteGetting together for lunch once a week or something like that could be cool too but we'd have to have some kind of central location or rotating location to accommodate the fact that some of us are downtown and some out here in the burbs.
Splitting the video and discussion would work best for us, due to Phil working every other weekend. So he would have to miss most of the time every other week. But we are flexible! I do like the soup idea too.
ReplyDeleteKathryn was saying that the Beth Moore studies follow a format of watching the video one week with shorter discussion and then a longer discussion the next week. We are open but both feel that we want have a format that Phil can be a part of it as much as possible. (because I don't want to be the only "big baby" and cry alone!) :)
ReplyDeleteActually, if we do video first every week then Phil would always be there for all the discussion time and not miss any part of that. He could borrow and preview the video during the week.
ReplyDeleteSounds good to us, we would just be concerned that Phil wouldn't have enough bandwidth with the new baby and everything else. His call of course.
ReplyDeleteSo just to confirm, we concluded to proceed as time allows, or as the Spirit leads. Each week, we'll decide whether we want to continue the discussion or move on to the next topic. I'm anticipating that I'll need help facilitating in the May/June timeframe after the baby arrives.
ReplyDeleteAlso, last night's discussion was great, but I want to be sensitive to the bedtime routines for the families with small children. Since we're going to continue discussion as needed, should we do a hard-stop at 8:15 pm? I don't want to squelch what we have going, but I also know there's a price to pay when our little one's start out their week with not enough sleep.
Thoughts?
By the way, the schedule to sign up for snacks/hosting is at:
ReplyDeletehttp://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdsqq3f_38gr28kxrm
If you're asked to log in, you should be able to with just your regular email (without 'signing up' with Google).