Soul Care Email sent 09.15.15 with some additional info in RED!

This blog post (email) contains information you will want to sure you check out because people in your group will have questions about changes to prayer sheets and other things.

At the end of this email I included some people who asked about being in groups.  Who can you invite to join your group?

This week is the start of our Soul Care Groups!

• Thank you for your response to the training this summer.  Almost every leader received training on at least 3 of the 4 topics.  The training pdfs are available HERE 
• Encourage Godly men in your group to take the NEXT STEP and lead a group.  If you have someone in your group who could be a leader, email me.  In thinking through and reading about small groups ministries, I am more convinced that these settings provide a great environment to develop leaders.
• Several groups met last week to get together for fellowship and reconnection.  That is a great way to reconnect and build some community.
• If you didn’t pick up Soul Care notes for this week, you can find them at www.emmanuelbaptist.com/adults.   This week I have put a Soul Care Question Sheet with some discussion helps for your HERE.
• We want to help each person grow in their spiritual discipline of Bible memory.  You can find out more at http://blog.emmanuelbaptist.com/biblememory/   The Fighters Verses have weekly devotionals and resources to help people learn these verses.
• We want to help each person grow in the spiritual discipline of prayer.  We have modified our prayer sheet from a weekly sheet to a monthly sheet in order to help people grow in this.  You can find out more at  http://blog.emmanuelbaptist.com/category/prayer/.  TYou will get or you may have questions about why we changed from a weekly sheet to a monthly sheet.  I am providing this brief explanation to help you understand for yourself and explain to others some of the reasons.  If you or someone in your group has questions, please have them contact me by calling the church or emailing drodgers@emmanuelbaptist.com.   

The challenge with doing a monthly prayer sheet instead of a weekly sheet is keeping the "information" up to date.  One of the attitudes I pray would develop is that these sheets would be seen more as helpful guides to help people focus on God as they prayer for people rather than a list of hospital updates and details.   

• With the change from weekly to monthly, every Soul Care leader is going to be added to a prayer update list.  Recent and updated prayer items will go out twice a week to people on this list.  You can encourage your group members to sign up by emailing or contacting Jane Lee (jlee@emmanuelbaptist.com)

I sent out SOME GROUP INFORMATION for Members and Welcome Class attenders who asked specifically about Soul Care.  If you didn't receive this email, please let me.

“Asked” doesn’t mean “do not ask.”  It only means they have been asked.

Being asked by more than one group is not a problem.  

Ron and Mary Farley really want to host one at their house.  They need a leader.