Cell Groups - FAQs

How to form a Godly Girlfriend Group

What is our goal?

Our goal is to empower us to reach out to our girlfriends with God's love in a way they can understand so they can be healed, restored, and made whole inside and out.  

Who can join?

This group is open to all ages of women, teens, and girls who want to grow their relationship with their girlfriends and with their Savior, Jesus Christ. 

What is a Godly Girlfriend Group?

A Cell Group of 3 to 7 girlfriends.

It can start with all of you being friends.

Or it can start with a nucleus of 2 or 3 friends who each invite another girlfriend to come along with you.  The person you invite can be

·         someone you would mentor, or

·         someone who would mentor you

·         someone who just loves to be with you

·         someone who doesn't know Jesus yet

·         She can be any age: from a young girls to a great-grandmas oranyone in between

The nature of every Cell Group is to multiply (as every healthy cell does).  When there become 8 of you, it's time to multiply and become two groups of 4 and start the process again.  If you start your Cell Group with this in mind, it will be a lot more fun as you watch God use you to reach women with His love that would have never known Him in any other way!

How do I find a group?

Start by praying.  Ask God to bring to your mind the people He has planned to be in your group.  Then keep your spiritual and physical eyes and ears open - expecting God to answer you.  We are not in charge of choosing the people who we will be in a Cell Group with - God is.

Let the Holy Spirit show you who it will be - trust Him to do it and He will.  Jesus Christ is the first person in every Godly Girlfriend Cell Group.  Without Him, the Cell cannot live..

Places to look for God's leading:

·         Women in your Sunday school class or church

·         Friends from your women’s bible study

·         Relatives, (especially mothers and daughters or grand-daughters)

·         Neighbors,

·         Co-workers,

·         Other moms that you do life with…

How do we start up our weekly meetings?

Choose a time and place to meet each week that will work for all of you.  Decide how long you will meet - choose something between 1 to 2 hours each week.  .  Remember:  You will meet with your group for the first three weeks of the month, then on the 4th week of each month you will go together to the Monthly 4G Connection Gathering, so you won't have your own Cell Group meeting that week.

 Here are some suggestions of ways to meet with your Cell Group:

·         At someone's home (or switch around each week or month)

·         At a coffee place (like Starbucks, etc.)

·         Ask the husbands to have a "Dad's Time with the Kids" each week during your Cell Group Meeting.

If you can't find a time to physically meet together, consider these options:

·         Make a phone call to each of the girlfriends in your Cell Group, or make it a conference call if one of you has phone that will do that.

·         Online conferencing with Google: you can video conference with 9 people at once.  (Not sure how?   Here are the steps)

·         Facebook -setup a private group. (Not sure how? Here are the steps)

What do we do at the weekly meetings?

1.      Start with Prayer.

2.      Study the Proverbs 31 lesson together as a group of girlfriends.  Read through the lesson together, sharing your hearts and lives as you do.  Use the back of the page before the lesson (it is blank) to write answers to the questions or anything else you want to jot down.  Add more paper in front of the lesson as needed.

3.      Meditate on and memorize the Proverbs 31 verse for that week. It’s on the top of each Lesson's page.

- make two columns:    The Truth I Found     and    How that truth applies to my life

- go through the verse word by word.  In the first column, write that word down and the truth you discover about that word

- ask God to show you how it applies to your life and write that down in the second column

- continue until you have finished doing this with all the words in the verse

- by the end of the process, you will have practically memorized it, so write it on a 3x5 card and carry it around with you this week.  Read it at least 3 times each day to review what you learned about it.

4.      Pray for each other.  Write each person's request on a page in your binder, or on 3x5 cards.  Then pray for each other right then and there.  Commit to pray for each other throughout the coming week.

5.      Plan your "Huddle Out" Activity (see below for explanation)

6.      Choose a "Golden Nugget"  or two that you got from the lesson and put a star by each. 
at your last  meeting just before the 4G Monthly Gathering decide what your “Pearl of Great Price” is out of all the Nuggets you collected.  Also plan what you will share about your “Huddle Out” Activity.  Then decide who will present these to the small group you will sit with at the Monthly Meeting

7.      Close with Prayer.

What is a "Huddle Out" Activity?

This is an activity that you choose to do as a team to reach out to others.
Here are some ideas to get you going:
• Collect all your change for a month, then trade it all in for quarters and pass it out at the local Laundromat in the name of Jesus.
• Pass out bottles of cold water at a local park on a hot day in the name of Jesus.
• Help out a local school in the name of Jesus.
• Butterfly Baskets:  use ordinary baskets that we all have around the house.  Get together with your girlfriends and decorate them and decide how to fill them.  Then pray about who should receive them – your mail carrier, your hairdresser, the person who bags your groceries, your waitress…ask the Lord to show you and pray for them.  Then have fun sharing how these baskets are like butterflies, born again, and look for an opportunity to share the Gospel as you passing them out. 
• Get together and provide babysitting for women you know who want to have a girls night out. 
• Look for opportunities to reach out to others with God’s love in a way they can understand so they can be healed, restored, and made whole inside and out.  And Have Fun!