Home Group Oversight

The Pastoral Home Group Department is responsible for providing oversight for more than 70 adult home groups throughout the Columbus area. Student Ministries and Adult Ministries Divisions provide oversight for another 20+ adult home groups and 37 junior and senior high school groups. Over 550 lay leaders (362 in the adult groups, 100 in the high school groups, and 89 in the junior high groups) volunteer their time to lead these 127 home groups.

Each Pastoral home group is assigned a Home Group Consultant staff member for oversight. Oversight is intended to ensure that Xenos home groups are duplicating themselves as they grow. Consultants strive to encourage, to equip, to counsel, and to help leaders promote group growth and health. Additionally, oversight staff provides the elders and management of Xenos with crucial information regarding the health, needs and priority of this key home group work.

Observation, discussion, assessment, feedback, reporting and prayer are key components to the oversight process. The following link provides more information about the home group consultant’s job in the Pastoral Division. These tools are used by the Home Group Consultant in the oversight process. Each division handles the oversight process a little differently. In the Pastoral Division, the process looks like this:

• Monthly Consultations with Home Group Leaders

• Home Group Visitations 1-2 times a year

• Monthly monitoring of Home Group Statistics, Rosters and Demographics

• Annual Evaluations

• Conferral with their Supervisor & Reporting

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