Click here to down­load the con­tent that I use for our New Leader Ori­en­ta­tion Class.

I usu­ally do this class about 4–6 weeks before a new term launch.  I rely heav­ily on our cur­rent lead­ers to tell me about poten­tial new lead­ers and as a rule I always try to invite a mix of peo­ple who are going to lead in the upcom­ing term, peo­ple who may be 2–3 terms away from lead­ing and peo­ple who may never lead but are core mem­bers of a group (for exam­ple some­one who serves in children’s min­istry as a pri­mary min­istry — I have dis­cov­ered that even if these guys aren’t the offi­cial leader they are still looked to for lead­er­ship in the group so it only strength­ens your group for them to know what the expec­ta­tions are “behind the scenes”).

Here is a sam­ple email for the NLO invite:

Hey _____,

Hope you guys are doing well.  I have some­thing that I wanted to run by you and ask you to dis­cuss.  On Sun­day May 8, I will be host­ing a new leader ori­en­ta­tion class for a cou­ple of life­group lead­ers who will be lead­ing next term and poten­tial lead­ers who might lead at some point in the future and I wanted to see if you guys might be avail­able to attend.  The class will be at the church and will start at 9:30 and run con­cur­rent with the 9:30 wor­ship gath­er­ing.  It will last for about 90 min­utes and we will be fin­ished in time to attend 11:00 wor­ship.  This class is designed to talk through some of the specifics of lead­ing a group here at LPC and to give our lead­ers a com­mon foun­da­tion as they move into a poten­tial lead­er­ship role.

By attend­ing you are not com­mit­ting to lead and you may never be called upon to lead but I would like for you guys to come and hear more about what it’s all about.  If noth­ing else I have found that it is good for core mem­bers of our groups to hear the nuts & bolts behind why we do what we do.  If you don’t mind, talk it over and let me know if it’s some­thing you think you might be avail­able for.

Thanks,
Troy