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6 Easy Ways to Destroy Community This Summer

5. Petition your church council to remove them as members if they don’t show up every week.

6. Since your schedule is out of the norm, bar anyone else from meeting.

And if they decide to meet, let your pastor know that they’re probably conspiring against him.

One easy way to flourish this summer:

Be flexible.

Schedules are going to be crazy in June and July. So be flexible. If someone can’t show up, let them off the hook. Even before they ask. Don’t make people feel guilty for missing small group in the summer. Help them find time to value their family, and to value the vacation time they’re going to take from work.

Here are some practical ideas for your group.

Five practical ideas to help you be flexible:

1. Vary your meetings times.

Meet three times in June and once in July. Or have a June party and a July party. Or meet the first two weeks in June and the first two weeks in July.

2. Include the kids.

Choose activities where kids could be welcome.

3. Throw two parties.

Have a party in June and a party in July.