Welcome To Player Snips
Please watch the getting started video below before you begin using your new superpowers
Welcome to Your Course with The Workshop!
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Small Group Goals and Logistics
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- 1Experience God’s heart for immigrants
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2Wrestle with myths and facts surrounding immigration
- 3Open their hearts, minds, and hands to immigrants
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4Be inspired and equipped to pursue relationships with immigrants
- 5Embrace the welcome of strangers as central to the gospel and their own personal discipleship
- 6Collectively imagine their group or congregation welcoming the stranger
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Leader Guide: Pages 3-5
Each section will tell you more about the Who, Why, When, and How of the experience.
Take a moment to read through these pages. Make note of any additional questions you have. In the next lesson, we’ll dive into how each lesson is laid out in your Guide.
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The First Session
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Phase 1: Definition
Start by offering context and direction for the experience. To respect group members, let them know what to expect in your sessions together.
Phase 2: Discovery
Create a space to share personal experiences with immigration. The course is designed to give ample opportunity for each person to share their perspectives and feelings about the topic.
Phase 3: Dreaming
What hopes do you have for this small group experience? Give group members time throughout each session to express their feelings on what they are learning/changing and what they want to walk away with.
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Leader Guide: Page 9
Let’s go to your Leader Guide to read over the plan for Week 1, starting on page 9. Note the ways that you see appreciative inquiry in the design.
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10 Tips for Effective Facilitation
Examine this list of tips. As you read through them, reflect and choose one in particular that you’d like to work on as you lead your group. How will you put it into practice?
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Tips for Entering and Staying with Tough Dialogue
Facilitating a small group requires us to be flexible in many ways. Sometimes, that looks like being comfortable with conflict and leading your group through moments of tension.
Let’s turn to this resource to help us prepare for these moments. After you read through it, we’ll walk through a scenario quiz to help us put these tips into practice.
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Download your Leader Guide
This guide will be your most important resource in planning for and leading group sessions. Print a copy or save it on your computer as you will review this guide throughout the course.
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Pray
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Experience
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Experience
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Buy the Book!
This experience follows the book Discovering and Living God’s Heart for Immigrants: A Guide to Welcoming the Stranger by Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang. Buying the book is completely optional, but it can be a great companion as you go through this course. When you're finished, consider sharing it with a friend!