Ok, we just got back from the Sunday evening home group meeting. Those of you that attended the session know that the subject of this round of meetings is focused on marriage and our relationship with our spouse. As one of the discussion leaders, I was told that if there were teens and/or singles in our group to "adapt" the material to suit the situation.
Our group has an abundance of teen/singles in it and I found this week's material exceedingly difficult to adapt. As a result they sort of just sat there and looked a little bit uncomfortable during most of the discussion, and I was somewhat uncomfortable as a discussion leader as well. Did anyone else experience this? Gary Glispie (my co-leader) and I are going to look over next week's material and do some adapting, then compare notes Sunday morning on what we can do to better serve the non-marrieds in our group.
I think the next round of meetings needs to either have a separate group for the teen/single crowd or have a subject that is not so exclusive of them. I'd be interested in hearing comments on this.
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Thoughts on Adapting
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Al,
I can identify with your struggle. Our session went fairly well but we had nearly all married couples (except poor Matt Hoskins). Matt patiently sat through the session, but I'm doubtful he took much away from it. Even with a group of couples, I jumped around the questions in the lesson and let the conversation digress. I think this is tough material to adapt. I'm not sure how you might adapt it to teens without re-writing it near completely. Otherwise, the couples in our group had a good discussion.
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