Training · Leading Your Group
Dinner Group Values
The three values every dinner group leader is aiming at, and what each one looks like in practice
Dinner Groups run on three values. Connecting the unconnected, helping people take their next step, and reproducing groups and leaders.
Under each one is what it looks like in a normal week of group life.
Connecting the unconnected
Drawing people into small group life.
- Keep an open chair in your group. It is a picture of who you want to fill it.
- Pray that God sends you new people, inside group and outside of it.
- Encourage your group to start conversations with new people on Sundays.
- Plan a connection event. Something low pressure that lets a new person get to know the people in your group.
Never ask someone “Is this your first time?” Ask “How long have you been going to Hoboken Grace?” instead.
Helping people take their next step
Encouraging and celebrating people as they take their next step.
- Encourage the people in your group to take their next step on the Growth Path.
- Be authentic. Talk regularly about the harder parts of following Christ: tithing, generosity, using our spiritual gifts, and how we treat friends, spouses, and kids.
- Celebrate when someone takes a next step.
Reproducing groups and leaders
Sending leaders out on the mission of helping people find their way back to God.
- Take a group member out for coffee and ask them to be your apprentice.
- Set a date to reproduce your group.
- Pray that God provides the people to multiply your group.
- Meet regularly with your coach for vision, encouragement, and training.
- Attend the monthly leader gatherings at SALT.
TODO(nick): What does SALT stand for?
The handout says to attend monthly leader gatherings at SALT and never spells it out. Confirm what it stands for and whether these gatherings still run.
The 2025 Better Together workbook says the same three values in one page. Core Values and Tensions is the short version.