We've been doing Small Groups for quite a while now, managing them manually. We have set up a test bed of about 40 groups at one of our campuses. Here's where we are:
- We have a Ministry called "Life Groups"
- In that ministry, we've created an activity called "Life Groups"
- For now, we've set up a generic schedule that is every day from 5:00am - 11:30pm (we'll come back and set more specifics later)
- We've set up activity groups - one for each of our four campuses
- We've named each group according to the group Leader and NOT assigned a room since they meet in homes, not on our campuses
- We've set up jobs for the Life Group Leaders
- We've added leaders to those jobs
While we've not yet implemented it so far as having leaders manage through weblink, here's our challenge. Look at step 5. We don't want to name the group according to Leader because leaders change. The group may have shared leadership (in my group, I teach some and another member teaches some). Is there another way to build a unique, meaningful identifier name for the group so that if the leader changes or is shared, we don't have to rebuild everything again?
Also, looking at our overall process, do you see any problems with how we've done it up to this point?