📣 Communicating with your group.

The resource you will use to run your group is Planning Center, which you have likely already used to register for Trinity events or for Sunday volunteer scheduling. You are already set as the Leader of your Connecting Group and may have received an email naming you as the Leader. Through Planning Center (either on your desktop or an app), you are able to:

• Email everyone in your group.

• Create events with reminders that people could RSVP to

• Have a message board where members could post other opportunities (for example, a running group member could post, "I'm training for a marathon if anyone would want to train with me!").   

🤷🏼‍♀️ How to use Planning Center:

We encourage you to try out the mobile app (called "Church Center") to communicate with your group, and let us know how it goes! Feedback could be really helpful as we decide if we want to push everyone at Trinity towards the app for all events/groups/registrations, etc. 

Planning Center has a helpful resource to show you exactly how to use the app. There are links with pictures that will help you add members to your group, send emails to all or select group members, create events, and view/moderate group messaging. It should be manageable once you bop around on the app. BUT if this feels overwhelming, feel free to just call me and I can talk it through with you while we both have it pulled up on our phones—easy breezy.

That being said, IF it feels frustrating or doesn't meet your needs, you can always use a different platform like email, text, or GroupMe. If you go this route, as people subscribe to your group, you will just need to add them to your GroupMe/email/text thread. 

🎉 Your role as a Leader: 

• Heads up the logistics of your group

  • Decide the place to meet, time to meet, and regularity

  • Keep people informed about meet-ups

  • Welcome new folks who register for the group

• Lead in the way of hospitality and connecting people

  • Especially keep your eye out for someone who shows up alone or seeming nervous! Pay special care to those people, as something like this may feel like a big risk.

• Connect people into life at Trinity

  • You may be the first touchpoint someone may have had to Trinity. So just be ready, if someone desires it, to point them to other ways to get involved. You are always welcome to point them to me! Or perhaps invite them to sit with you at church, if they have never been.

Thank you!

Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or concerns.

Addie Norman