Hoboken Grace · Dinner Groups
Activities
Things to run with your group instead of the week's questions. Ten minutes to a full night.
You want to encourage your group members. We want to partner with you.
Every group has the chance to grow beyond great conversation. These are simple ways to bring the four pillars to life so your group experiences a well rounded faith together. Keep them in your back pocket.
Connecting
Connecting nights grow and strengthen the group's relationships and open the door to new friends. Aim for one a month.
Story Cards
A deck of photos that gets a room of near strangers telling the truth in ten minutes
Us Night
A night with no agenda except getting closer, and the answer to the intimacy versus inclusion tension
Serving Together
Take one step outside the group and demonstrate God’s love where somebody can feel it
Communion
Communion means the act of sharing. On these nights the group shares a common activity that encourages each other in faith.
Share Our Stories
The night your group stops being people who meet on Tuesdays and starts being people who know each other
Communion
Break bread together and remember what Christ has done, as a group
Encouragement Night
Everyone in the room hears what they mean to the people around them
Worship Together
Two songs and some quiet, which is more than most groups ever do
Extended Night of Prayer
Look back at what has been answered, then pray together for what is still open
Common Growth
The continuation of Sunday. These nights take the weekend message and work through what it looks like to live it out.
Introducing Group Discussions
Tell your group what a discussion night is for before you assume they know
Reflecting on the Series
Before you start the next thing, help your group name what the last thing did to them
Bible Study, Any Passage
Five questions that work on any chapter of the Bible, with no prep
Personal Growth
Each person names the next step they are taking with God, and the group celebrates and encourages every step.
Experience Plans
The tool your group uses to name one step forward, and the night you introduce it
Sync with the Spirit
The monthly Experience Plan review, which is where the tool actually does its work
Group Life Check-In
Three questions that tell you what your group actually thinks, including the one that surprises every leader
Grieving
A worksheet each person does alone with God, and the night your group shares what came of it
Group Next Steps
Conversations that help one person in your group take a step: serving, baptism, or where the group goes from here.
Serving Conversation
Ten minutes of hearing where people already serve, which does more than any announcement you could make
Baptism Conversation
Let the people who have been baptized tell their stories, which does more than any explanation you could give
Group Realignment
A short reset that gets everyone taking ownership again, best run at a natural turn in the season
Looking for the teaching behind these? That lives under Training. Activities are what to do. Training is why it matters.