Home Group Oversight

Home Group consultations occur on a monthly basis between the Consultant (usually Xenos Staff) and a member of the Home Group Leadership team (volunteer leadership). These consultations take place either over the phone or face-to-face and tend to be about an hour long. Unscheduled calls from leaders to the Consultant are welcome too.

Preparing for the Consultation

• Scheduling

• Review Home Group Roster, Home Group Attendance Charts, Home Group Profile Report & Action Items from the quarterly Home Group Report

• Prayerfully consider follow-up items or areas to focus on in the consultation.

The Consultation

• Prayer is a vital component to an effective consultation as we open ourselves to the leading of the Holy Spirit.

• Any number of areas can be prioritized and discussed in the Consultation. Generally, we should verify that the objective information from the Home Group Profile Report, Rosters, and Attendance Charts is accurate.

• Discussions may be directed in the following areas:

Evangelism

1. What evangelistic attempts are being made?

2. Who is the most effective? How are you helping them?

3. Are you talking about responding to opportunities in your cell groups?

4. Do you pray for opportunities? (Col. 4:2-6)

Discipleship

1. Describe your discipleship ministry.

2. What individual plans do you have for the person you are discipling?

3. Are they moving toward ST? What do they need?

4. What other discipleship relationships are going on in your group?

5. Who in your group needs to be discipled that isn’t currently being discipled?

Community

1. How have your home group meetings been? How are the teachings? How is the fellowship time? How is prayer at the home group meeting?

2. How are your cell groups going? Who is new to cell group? Who seems to be contributing on a new level at cell group? How can you encourage that?

3. Is there a home group phone list? A calendar of events?

4. Do you have any special events coming up?

5. Are you having regular retreats?

6. Does anyone from your group vacation together?

7. Are people having dinners/time together apart from meetings?

8. Are the members of your group serving one another and serving together?

Leadership

1. What is God showing you about your group?

2. What are you urgently praying for?

3. Do you have leader’s meetings? How often?

4. How is the unity in your leadership? Do leaders have someone they are accountable to?

5. What kind of relationship do you have with your co-leaders?

6. What are your leaders meetings like? Exciting or dread?

7. Who are your potential new leaders? How are you equipping them for that work?

Personal

1. Are you increasing in your experience of God and his grace in your life?

2. What are you doing specifically to pursue growth and personal sanctification?

3. Who is your best friend(s)? What level of friendship do you have?

4. What is bogging you down in your life right now? What are you worrying about?

5. What do you have going on in your life that I can pray for?

6. How is your marriage?

Future

1. Plant plans? What is preventing you from planting in the next ?

2. Present changes – if you could change two things?

Conclusion

1. Are there any current crises that we should address?

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