The Equip Experience-connections (Handout)

The EQUIP Experience

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CONNECTIONS

CONNECTING WITH KIDS

1. Use their name.

Discussion Question Tips: 2. Look through their eyes and enter their world.

“Kids don’t care how much you know until they know you care.”

“Children haven’t changed, but childhood has.”


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QUIZ TIME … 1. What is a tablet?

5 Pill you take 5 Mobile handheld device

2. What is a Wiki?

5 Cooperative web application 5 Shuttle bus in Hawaii

3. What is a phone?

5 Device that has a long, coiled wire that you wrap around your arm while talking

5 Device you carry in your pocket 4. What is History?

5 Subject in school 5 TV channel

5. What is GaGa?

5 Singer 5 Baby talk

6. What is Amazon?

5 River in South America 5 Online store

7. Who is the green giant?

5 Shrek 5 Big guy picking vegetables

8. Who is Madden? 5 Super bowl winning coach 5 Video game

9. What is mail?

5 Comes to your mailbox 5 Comes to your computer

10. What is cut and paste?

5 Something you do on a computer 5 Something you do with scissors

and glue 11. Wire-rimmed glasses?

5 John Lennon 5 Harry Potter

12. When do cartoons come on?

5 24/7 5 Saturday morning

13. Who is the star of Twilight?

5 Rod Sterling 5 Vampires

14. Who is Barney?

5 Purple dinosaur 5 Deputy

Discussion Question: How can we stay connected to the world of today’s kids?


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3. Know how to talk to them.

• Don’t look down at them. • Don’t talk down to them.

• Talk about their interests.

CONNECTING WITH PARENTS No one has more influence in the life of a child than his/her parents. 2 KEY WAYS TO CONNECT WITH PARENTS… 1. 2-Minute Window

• Here are some tips on how to maximize this time.

§ Look for guest service opportunities. § Be “full of faith.” § Be “full of family.” § Be “full of fun.”


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2. Talk

• Make a point to talk with parents outside of your volunteer environment.

ü In hallways ü In worship ü In Life Studies or Life Groups ü In the community

• As the opportunity presents itself invite parents to serve with you.

TABLE TALK… • As a group, list some other ways you can maximize the drop-off and

pick-up time we have with parents? • What are some other ways to connect with parents? • As time allows, have group members share a personal story about

how connecting with parents has made a difference in their volunteer experience, or in the life of a parent or child.


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CONNECTING WITH EACH OTHER GROW INGREDIENTS

• Serve • Learn • Connect

Today, we are focusing on CONNECT. Here’s what we believe … 1. Life is best done in community. 2. Being a part of a SERVE Team that is intentional about connecting

with each other in a relationship will help you grow in your

relationship to God.

§ Iron sharpens iron. (Proverbs 27:17) § Serving is a form of discipleship – we grow as we are doers of the

word and not hearers only. (James 1:22)

§ We all need encouragement and can encourage others.

(1 Thessalonians 5:11; Hebrews 3:13)

§ SERVE Teams help connect people with similar passions.


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3. Meaningful relationships with the people you serve with is the glue

that keeps SERVE Teams together!

So how can you create connections with others in your ministry area? Here are a few suggestions: Ø Commit to arrive in time to participate in our pre-service huddle.

Ø Pray together, Ø Practice name-calling. • Calling people by their name boosts their sense of belonging.

Ø Build bridges. Ø Party with each other outside of serving. • Spending time together without an agenda fosters closer

relationships.

§ Be intentional about creating a “family” atmosphere.


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TABLE TALK… • As a group, list some ways that your team currently connect with

each other, either during your serving time, or outside your serving time.

• What are some other ways that you can encourage each other in

your spiritual walk? • What are some steps that you could take to invite others to join your

SERVE Team and experience community with you? PERSONAL REFLECTION… • Who are 2 people on your team that you will be intentional about

connecting with this week?

Serving is about more than just teaching a class or changing a diaper or greeting a family or preparing a craft. It's about doing life together. It's about going through the good times

and the bad times together. It's about supporting one another. It's about helping each other grow closer to Jesus.


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CONNECTING WITH GOD

1. Special time.

2. Special place.

3. Special plan.

a) Ask God to speak to you through His Word.

b) Read and listen.

c) Write it down.

d) Talk to God.

• Confess your sins.

• Praise God.

§ Who He is

§ What He does

• Ask for your needs.

• Ask for the needs of others.

• Ask God to use your life for His glory.

He appointed twelve that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach.

Mark 3:14


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“CONNECTING TO GOD” EXPERIENCES Prayer Experience One - The Wind of the Spirit

Prayer Experience Two – Knock on the Door

“On the day of Pentecost all the believers were meeting together in one place. Suddenly, there was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a mighty windstorm, and it filled the house where they were sitting.” Acts 2:1-2 Stand in front of the fan and feel the wind blowing over you. Ask the Holy Spirit to blow into your life in a new and fresh way. Ask him to fill your life with His power as you minister.

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.” Matthew 7:7-8 Write down a prayer need and place it on the door. Ask God to answer the prayer. We will also be praying for your request this week.


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Prayer Experience Three – At the Foot of the Cross

He was despised and rejected - a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all. Isaiah 53 Look at the images of Jesus. Thank Him for suffering and dying for you so that you could be forgiven and healed

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