How To Invite People To Your Life Group

You’ve stepped out to lead a Story group (which is awesome!), but one of the things you might be wondering is, “Will anyone come to my group?”  The answer is YES, they’ll come, but it’ll take a little work on your part.

Here are 4 things you can do right now to gather men and women to your Story Life Group.

1.    Pray. Ask God to bring people into your life that you can invite to your Story group.  Ask him for divine conversations with people at church, work or in your neighborhood.

2.    Make an invite list.   Create a list of people that you could invite to your group.  Maybe they go to Christian Assembly, maybe they are neighbors or coworkers, or maybe they’re people in your life who aren’t yet Christ followers.  Think of all possibilities!

3.    Invite people.   Invite people to check out your Story group – the same way you’d invite people to a BBQ or a birthday party.  Call, email, text or ask them in person, whatever works for you!  Say something like, “Hey, I’m starting a Life Group the week of September 8th and I wanted to invite you to be part of it.  We’re going to be reading together through The Story and studying the stories of Scripture chronologically. Would you be interested to check it out?”  Let them know when it meets, and then give them time to think and pray about it.  Follow up if you don’t hear back from them.  Oftentimes people need multiple invitations until they finally say yes!  Use social media too.  Promote your group on Facebook every few weeks with an invitation for people to check it out!

4.    Invite people to invite other people. As people say yes to your invitation, encourage them to think and pray about friends, family and co-workers they can invite.  Not only will this help grow your group, but it will begin to teach people that your group is open and that welcoming and inviting the outsider is important to you and the group. The staff at Christian Assembly will also send people your way as we meet people looking for groups.  Many groups will also be posted on the Christian Assembly website, so people may find you and email your group that way.