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Launch Groups on the Biggest Day of the Year
Posted by Allen White in Small Group Strategy on January 9, 2018
By Allen White
Easter is only 12 weeks away. Did I scare you?
Now, you may be one of those pastors who plans everything in advance. Good for you. But, you might be like the pastors at one church I served where Easter always seemed to take us by surprise. How many services? How do we promote? What is our theme? Who is leading worship? How can we get them back after Easter? If those are your questions, you are in good company.
Every pastor wants to see new faces on Easter Sunday, and maybe even a few faces that haven't been seen for a while. But, once you get them to the service, how do you keep them? How can they be connected? How can new believers be effectively discipled? These are important questions. Let me offer three tips to connecting your Easter crowd.
1. Everyone attends Easter Services.
Easter is the day when everyone who calls your church their home church shows up. Whether they are members, regular attenders or CEOs (Christmas and Easter only), Easter is the day they all come. This presents a unique opportunity for launching groups.
More than any other season, Easter is the time when everyone can hear the invitation for groups at the same time. While Christmas offers a similar opportunity, the end of December is not a great time to talk about the New Year. Your people just aren't there yet. But, Easter gets everybody in the room and offers a window to start groups and get people to come back on the Sunday after Easter.
A few years ago, we created a video-based curriculum called Hope Rising for Eastside Christian Church, Anaheim, CA with Pastor Gene Appel. They handed out a copy of the study guide to everyone of the 7,000 people who attended Easter series. When it was all said and done, Eastside launched 460 groups for that series. Now you may not have 7,000 people, but you could have 65 percent of your people in groups like Gene did.
While some may have some misgivings about launching groups toward the end of the school year, the reality is when you have everybody present for Easter, you really can't pass up that opportunity. If you offer these groups a next step, even if it's in the Fall, as many as 80 percent will take you up on the offer.
2. Bless your CEO's.
I served one pastor who used to end the Easter services by saying, "And, if I don't see you in the near future, I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas." We can have a bad attitude toward our "Christmas and Easter Only" crowd, but let's not rule them out just yet.
When you think about the people who occasionally or rarely attend your services, wouldn't you like to get them more engaged? Now think about this, who are their friends? Most likely they have far more friends outside of the church than inside the church. That's great news for starting small groups. If you invite them to do a study with their friends, you can begin reaching people who've barely darkened the door of your church. Rather than inviting your CEO's to join groups with church people, offer them a way to connect with their unchurched friends and do something intentionally to grow spiritually. The group experience will lead them to the worship experience.
At Harvest Church in Byron, GA, Pastors Jim and Jennifer Cowart used a strategy they called "Grab, Gather, and Grow." The idea was to grab an easy-to-use curriculum, gather with a group of friends, and grow spiritually. Their congregation of 2,500 took them up on it. Some 5,000 or so friends were gathered for these groups. Many of those friends started attending the weekend services as well.
So often we think of groups as an assimilation strategy or discipleship training, but groups are very effective in reaching out to others in the community who may not have a connection to the church, but do have a connection to someone in your church.
By giving your members, and even your CEO's, permission and opportunity to form a group with their friends, more people could end up in groups than in your services. Groups can become an entry point to your church.
3. Your Senior Pastor is the Key.
The key to launching groups at both Eastside and Harvest was the senior pastors. At both churches, the senior pastor was the spokesperson for groups. Not only that, the senior pastor was the teacher on the curriculum. While there is a lot to unpack in those two concepts think about this: if your people aren't connected to each other, the reason they attend your church is because of your senior pastor. They enjoy the pastor's style, teaching, and even the jokes. (One word of caution: don't mention this to your worship pastor, it will break his heart.)
If your church creates curriculum based on your pastor's teaching, you're just giving your people more of what they already want. There are a variety of ways to do this. You could pay someone tens of thousands of dollars to do this for you. If you're interested in that, I could recommend someone. But, you could also map out your own series, shoot the video, edit the video, write the study guide, design the study guide, and then duplicate everything yourself. That may sound daunting, but some churches are producing curriculum with an iPhone. A third way is to add your pastors teaching to a series that has already been created like All In.
However, you create your video-based curriculum, that teaching along with your pastors invitation on Easter Sunday will create more groups than you can imagine. While you're in the process of calculating how many lilies and eggs your church will need, don't miss out on the opportunity to launch groups off of Easter. Not only will unchurched people participate, but the Sunday after Easter won't see the dip in attendance it usually does.
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What are Exponential Groups?
Posted by Allen White in Small Group Strategy on October 12, 2016
By Allen White
Exponential Groups is not so much a strategy or model as it is a focus and an attitude. Your focus determines your result. Exponential results require exponential thinking. What are you thinking about?
1. Are You Focused on Group Members?
If your focus is connecting people into groups, you are not thinking exponentially. Your groups are growing by addition. Think about it. You handpick the leaders and train them. You collect sign up cards or have a website to connect people into groups. It's not a bad way to go, except that you work hard to start a few groups at a time or to plug people into groups only to find the leader doesn't call the prospective members, the new members don't show, or they do show, but they don't stick with the group.
Now, you can arrange the connections by geography, affinity, age, hobby, and so on, but let's face it: growth by addition is a lot of work with very few results. Just the administrative task of processing all of those sign up cards is nightmare enough. Then, you face the heartbreaking result of how ineffective all of your efforts were. It's time to change your focus.
2. Are Your Focused on Group Leaders?
If your focus is on group leaders developing apprentices and multiplying, dividing, or splitting your groups, your focus is not exponential. Your groups might be growing by multiplication…maybe. At one point, I had encouraged, challenged, and possibly threatened my group leaders to find an apprentice for seven years. They couldn't find one. No one in their groups looked like an apprentice. The irony was that I recruited members out of their group to train to become leaders, so we could at least continue growing by addition. Finally, one of my leaders, Carlos, trained an apprentice and launched a new group. After seven years of effort, that was the only one. Some multiplication, huh?
Now there are places where this focus is successful, but I have found this is less common. If this is what you're doing, and it's working for you, then you might not need to listen to me. Multiply away, but you're still not thinking exponentially.
3. Are Your Focused on Church-wide Campaigns?
If your focus is on recruiting leaders, you still aren't thinking exponentially. Maybe your pastor makes the cattle call for leaders or hosts to lead your next church-wide campaign. Now this thinking is more exponential than addition or multiplication, it's on the right track, but it's still not there.
On the positive side, church-wide campaigns delay the requirements for leadership, so there are more potential leaders. These leaders self-identify, which eliminates the task of recruiting. They can even gather their own groups. After all, followers are the requirement for leadership. As John Maxwell says, "If you think you're a leader and have no followers, you're only taking a walk."
The other thing a campaign brings is a easy to use tool, like a video-based curriculum, which enables the new leader to be more friendly than scholarly, but it also maintains quality, because you have determined what is being taught in the group. The non-teacher feels good about teaching, and pastors feel good about letting them lead.
But, when the campaign ends, even if the groups continue on with another study, this growth is still more like multiplication and less like exponential. It has the potential to be exponential, but it's not there. The goal is usually to connect 100 percent of the people into groups. But, what if this thinking is too small?
4. Are You Thinking Exponentially?
Exponential thinking is a shift in how we view our congregations. Are they sheep who need a shepherd? Can their needs only be met by a pastor? Careful: that might betray some co-dependency on your part. Is your congregation full of people who are unqualified to lead? How do you see them?
Some pastors see their congregations as an audience. The people are given worship and teaching on Sunday. They receive Bible studies throughout the week. The pastors direct the ministries they serve in. The people are cared for by the pastors: hospital visits, counseling sessions, cups of coffee. For some pastors this is a comfortable situation. Then, your church grows beyond 10 people, and you have a problem.
But, what if your congregation wasn't an audience to be served, but an army to be empowered? What if every person in your church was empowered to gather a few people, maybe just one person, and do something intentional about their spiritual growth? What if pastors focused more on equipping people and not doing the ministry themselves? Please keep your excuses at bay for a minute and dream with me.
If everyone — church member or attender — is leading a group, who is in their groups? Good question. People who are not in your church. This doesn't mean stealing sheep from another flock. There are plenty of people with stressful lives, marriage problems, parenting challenges, life controlling problems, and spiritual questions who could be invited to these groups. The challenge is providing resources that are biblical, yet less churchy to those who need help.
I've seen glimpses of this. Neighbors gathered. People with similar hobbies and interests. Whether the group is the Holy Smokers in South Carolina who make barbeque or the Holy Smokes in Colorado who light up cigars. I've seen commuters on the same morning train doing a Bible study and coworkers meeting at lunch.
This doesn't need to be coerced. This doesn't require a grand strategy. It only requires a shift in the pastor's thinking and an opportunity for their people to lead a "group."
Not everyone will do this all at once. In fact, I've never seen 100 percent of any church do anything all at once. Start with your innovators — that 4 percent who are willing to try anything. Then, tell their stories to your early adopters, the next 12 percent. Now, you have 16 percent of your church leading. If you've got 16 percent leading, then you're becoming exponential already. They will influenced the next 34 percent of early mid-adopters. You've made it past 50 percent. The other half will take a little more time, but it's worth it.
God wants to use your people. Whether you focus on addition or multiplication, imagine how God could use them. But, imagine if the impact of your people touching the lives a four, six, ten, or twelve people outside of your church. Imagine. That's exponential.
Your Campaign Launched, but Day 41 is Coming
Posted by Allen White in Small Group Strategy on September 20, 2016
A lot of great things can happen during a 40 Day church-wide campaign, then comes Day 41. If you've just launched groups in the last few weeks, it's time to think about what's next.
Several years ago a small group pastor joined our coaching program. He had gone from having no small groups in his church to actually launching 233 groups for a 40 day church-wide campaign. At the end of the campaign, when it was all said and done, he ended up with three groups. What a heartbreak!
Over the years, in the laboratory of hundreds of churches across the country, we've learned a few things about keeping the momentum going and helping to sustain groups for the long haul.
1. Groups Need a Next Step.
Most new groups do not have an opinion of what they want to study next. How many times has a new group leader presented a selection of curriculum to the group only to hear, "They all look good. Why don't you pick one." Happens almost every time.
Of course, the other issue here is the fact you invited folks to join a group for six weeks and not for the rest of their lives. For some strange reason, once the six weeks ends, they feel like their commitment is up – because it is.
We launched groups at our church in California for the first time in the Spring. Our fear wasn't just Day 41, but also days 42-96. It was a high hurdle over the summer. We gathered the new leaders mid-way through the Spring study and invited them to join our next series which began on the second Sunday of October. Then, we held our breath. It's a long stretch from mid-May to mid-October. October held a big surprise.
When we gathered groups in the Fall to give them a sneak peek at the Fall curriculum, 80 percent of the groups who started in the Spring were right there to join the Fall study. You could have knocked me over with a feather. By giving the groups a next step, even a huge step over four months, is key to helping groups sustain. If I hadn't experienced this first hand, honestly, I wouldn't have believed it.
Wendy Nolasco, Small Group Pastor at New Life Center, Bakersfield, California, found a similar result. After successfully launching 100 groups in the Spring, they gave their groups a heads up on their Fall campaign and then said a prayer. This Fall 75 of those groups are continuing into the next step Pastor Wendy gave them.
If you are in a Fall or New Year's campaign, the next step is not quite so daunting. They don't need to wait three months for another study. They can start a new study the following week. Once a group does two back to back six week studies, usually they are good to continue from that point forward.
2. Give Your New Groups One Specific Next Step
If you send your new group leaders to the internet or the local bookstore, they will get lost in the plethora of selections. In fact, it will take them so long to make a decision, more than likely the group will falter before they can choose their next step.
If you started the group with a video-based curriculum, then the next step should involve a video as well. Again, if you invited folks to form groups with the idea that they didn't have to be a Bible scholar, because the expert was on the video, they will need that strategy again. Whether the next series aligns with the Sunday sermons or not, a specific next step will take them past Day 41 and into a longer group life.
Now, you may ask, "How long can groups continue with video-based curriculum?"
Carl George put it this way, "As long as there are DVDs."
3. A New Study is a Great Time to Recruit New People to Your Group.
The beginning of a study is a natural time to invite new members into a group. The group could host an open house or a barbecue to invite some friends and neighbors who might be interested in joining the group. Everyone likes to start on the ground floor. A new study certainly provides that opportunity.
4. If the Host Can't Continue…
Well, you could go the guilt route: "If you love Jesus and want to go to Heaven…" But, I wouldn't recommend that.
If the hosts legitimately cannot continue, they are probably not considering other possibilities for the group to continue. they think if they can't go on, then the group can't either. But, that's not necessarily true.
When a host informs you around Day 24 of your current campaign that they won't be able to continue with the group, have their coach begin to investigate whether another member of the group would like to step up and host the group. If the group has been rotating leadership during the study, someone may very easily take over leadership of the group so the group can continue.
Oh, and how do you get your hosts to state their intentions around Day 24 or so? You ask them. I've used both a mid-campaign survey as well as a mid-campaign host huddle to determine who is interested in continuing and who isn't. Before I walk into the huddle meeting, I like to know what to expect. Often I will send the mid-campaign survey first. It serves as what John Maxwell calls the "meeting before the meeting." Then, when you walk into the room, you know who plans to continue and who needs to be given some options for their group to continue.
All in all, Day 41 is just the beginning of group life. With the right encouragement and next steps, groups who started to only complete a six week study, can find themselves enjoying quality group life for many studies to come.
Unstuck Webinar: Van Dyke Church 5 Years Later [Case Study]
Posted by Allen White in Case Studies, Small Group Strategy on September 1, 2016
By Allen White
I was first introduced to Pastor Matthew Hartsfield and Van Dyke Church, Lutz, FL in 2011. We had a great run at getting over 100% of their then 1,800 adults connected into groups. [Read the Original Case Study Here] Five years later, Van Dyke Church has grown to 3,300 members and 2,300 adults in weekly attendance. [Read the Updated Case Study Here] They have maintained 80-90% of their adults in groups. Here is my interview with Matthew Hartsfield:
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Bad Times to Launch Small Groups
Posted by Allen White in Small Group Strategy on July 19, 2016
By Allen White
After launching small groups with church-wide campaigns over the last 14 years, I've discovered there are some great times to launch groups, and there are definitely some seasons or situations to avoid. Considering the effort that's put into a campaign whether you are purchasing someone else's campaign or creating your own, you want to get the most bang for your buck. Why put all of that time, energy, and effort into something that will end up with a mediocre result? Here are some seasons and situations to avoid:
1. Summer.
My men's group met 52 weeks of the year. We met at a restaurant for lunch on Wednesdays. Like most guys, we ate lunch 52 weeks of the year, so we did a Bible study too. I'm not sure 52 weeks per year is ideal, but it worked for us. Unfortunately, this doesn't work for everyone.
Because of the school calendar, which was based on an agrarian society, most schools are in session from Labor Day until Memorial Day as God intended. Some schools, however, start early in August. This pre-Labor Day start is against the natural order of things, in my humble opinion. But, most schools offer the three reasons teachers have entered the profession: June, July, and August.
Families go on vacation. The evenings are longer. Even committed group members tend to forget about small groups. If getting groups to continue meetings is a challenge during the Summer, then starting groups in the Summer is even more difficult.
Summer is the weakest season of the year to launch groups. The strongest seasons for group launches are (in order): Fall, New Years, and Spring (after Easter). Summer is in last place by a mile. By launching groups in the Summer, you are faced with two issue. First, you're not getting your bang for the buck as mentioned earlier. Second, you are taking away from the impact of your Fall campaign. Not only is Fall the start of the school year, but the Summer break before Fall helps to make a Fall launch the strongest of the year.
Now, there will be groups like mine who want to continue through the Summer come hell or high water. Let them meet. But, don't spend a leadership coin on a Summer launch. Save it until Fall.
2. Capital Campaign.
Growing churches build. Building churches requires a lot of money and usually some sort of capital campaign. We understand this.
People who are in groups tend to give more than people who are not in groups. According to Ed Stetzer and Eric Geiger in Transformational Groups, their research has shown that people not in groups give 6.07 percent of their income, while those who attended a group 4 or more times a month gave 10.34 percent (p 45). If a family earned $35,000 per year, this means their annual giving would increase by $1494.50 per year if they joined a small group.
If the church needs money, and people in groups tend to give more money, then why not get everybody into groups so they'll give to more the capital campaign. That equation works for the short-term, but not the long term.
Once an association is made between small groups and capital campaigns, then the next time the call is made for people to join small groups, most people will think, "I wonder how much money they need to raise this time." I'm not saying capital campaigns are wrong. They're not. They are necessary. But, capital campaigns and small group campaigns simply do not go together.
To avoid a bad associate, get ahead of the capital campaigns. Form groups in the New Year, then start the capital campaign in the Fall. Groups can certainly study something about the church's vision related to the capital campaign, and they've started well enough in advance that the association shouldn't be made.
3. During a Church Crisis.
When a church is facing a major crisis, like the pastor's forced resignation, a devastating financial blow, or a scandal of any kind, this is not the time to start small groups. I'm not being glib. My first pastor had to resign after I'd only been on staff for 18 months. While groups will certainly bond people together, disgruntled individuals can become platoons who will march right out of your church together. Wait until the dust settles, then launch groups.
4. Simultaneously with Another Major Initiative.
My friend, Gilbert Thurston says, "If you are casting vision for two things at the same time, you are creating Di-vision or division." No pastor wants to promote division. The problem is if the best time to launch small groups is in the Fall and the New Year, well, it's also the best time to launch everything else. Sigh.
To avoid creating di-vision in your church, stagger your announcements. If you're church has on-going or semester-based groups and ministries like Celebrate Recovery, Financial Peace University, DivorceCare, GriefShare, or others, then start those before you make the call for groups. While it's nice to have everyone in the church studying the same thing, it's not necessary for an effective group launch. Once the support groups have started, then gear up for your big Fall or New Year's launch.
5. If the Majority of Your Adults are in Sunday School.
Some churches don't need small groups. Maybe they'd like to have groups, but for those churches who still run a thriving adult Sunday school, groups really aren't necessary. Now, I'm talking about churches with 90 percent of their adults in Sunday school today. This is different from churches with declining Sunday schools who think that promoting Sunday school more will boost attendance. If that's you, then you need to start groups. Your Sunday school ain't coming back. But, there are those churches with well established, thriving Sunday schools. My word to you — Keep Sunday School working. If it begins to slip, then think groups.
You really have to ask yourself: Are we in the meeting business or are we in the discipleship business? You can make disciples in Sunday school. You can make disciples in groups. The goal is not groups. The goal is developing leaders and making disciples.
6. Christmas.
For many of the same reasons as Summer, the weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day become overloaded with activities for most people in your church. Between school programs, Christmas parties, special Christmas services, shopping, traveling, and whatever else they've piled on themselves, the Christmas season is a very difficult time to start groups or for groups to even meet regularly. Groups can have fun together or serve together, but weekly meetings are probably out.
7. Immediately after New Year's Day.
Most senior pastors want to kick off the new year with a "State of the Church" type of message or "Vision Sunday," then they want to get right into their series the second Sunday in January. If this is when the church chooses to launch groups, there's a big problem — there is no time to recruit leaders or form groups. If you think, "We will just recruit leaders in December for the January launch," then go back and read #6. I've tried this. I ended up standing in the briefing room, listening to crickets, and questioning the call of God on my life. You can't recruit nobody for nuthin' in December. Save yourself some headaches.
The "New Year's" launch will go much better if there is time in January to recruit leaders and form groups before the series starts in late January. Better yet, use the whole month of January to recruit and form groups, then run your series between the Christian holidays of Super Bowl Sunday and Easter.
Every church is different. For instance, Canadian churches will want to start their Fall series after Canadian Thanksgiving. If you live in Seattle and the mountain is still out in September, you might want to wait until October to start your series. If your people's calendars fill up very quickly at the start of the school year, then you'd better launch groups when school starts, so folks still have an evening available.
Use these seven suggestions to guide you. I want you to succeed with your next group launch, but in the end, you need to do what works best in your neck of the woods.
Avoiding Ground Hog Day This Fall
Posted by Allen White in Small Group Strategy on June 21, 2016
By Allen White
Most of us know the movie starring Bill Murray as a weatherman who is sent to cover the story of a "weather forecasting rat." Obviously, this is not his favorite assignment. This time something is different. Every day when he wakes up, it's once again Ground Hog Day. He's basically having the worse day of his life over and over and over again. Until he finally gets it right.
Some churches had stellar Fall launches last year, then they failed to retain as many groups as they would have liked. The plan for this Fall is another big launch without a next step. The result will be Ground Hog Day.
Other churches are carefully handpicking leaders hoping to have an incremental increase in groups this Fall. I followed this strategy for seven years and got stuck with only 30 percent of our people in groups. After six Ground Hog Days in a row, I knew something had to change.
How will your Fall launch this year be different from your Fall launch last year? Now, you could do the exact same thing you did last year only louder, more frequent, and with great intensity, and you will probably gain a few more. But, the result will be far from exponential, and it will feel like Ground Hog Day all over again. Consider these six things as you prepare for your Fall launch:
1. What topic will attract more?
In working with over 1,500 churches over the last 11 years, some topics have been real winners in connecting not only congregations, but communities into groups. Other topics, well, not so much. Let's start with the narrow topics.
If you're church is going with a rather mature topic like fasting, giving, evangelism, or anything by Francis Chan, you will have a limited amount of new groups starting. After all, when most of us read Francis Chan, we wonder if we're even still Christians. There is a place for more mature topics, topics with lots of homework, and anything to do with money, but it's not in a Fall campaign where you have the biggest possibility of connecting people into groups.
Think about felt needs. What needs do your people and your community have? How could a Fall campaign help? Topics like parenting, relationships, stress, fears, hope, peace, and similar could certainly scratch where folks itch. This does not mean you need to cater to peoples' needs in every curriculum you promote, but if you want to draw them in for a big Fall launch, that is certainly the direction to head. In fact, you might even think about creating your own curriculum.
2. What strategy will connect more?
What has worked in the past will not continue into the future. If your people are filling out sign up cards or web forms, get out of that business ASAP. This is the most time consuming, ineffective method of forming groups known to man. You do all the work of getting them into a group only to discover that either the leader never follows up with the person, the person never shows up, or the person doesn't stick with a group where they have nothing in common with anybody else. In fact, this practice makes me want to change the analogy from Ground Hog Day to the definition of insanity!
Now that you're giving up your sign up cards, how do you connect people into groups. Start with the group leaders. Who do they know that would enjoy the study? Personal invitation will go a long way to form healthier, long-lasting groups. If you have a lot of new people in your church or moving into your area, then create an environment where new people can meet group leaders face to face, then sign up for a specific group. Some people want to lead a group, but don't want strangers coming to their house. Why not have them start a group by just inviting their friends? In fact, could your people "do the study with their friends" and not even mention "groups"?
3. What new method will recruit more leaders?
Are you still handpicking leaders? How stressed are you already about Fall? Are your leaders supposed to be training an apprentice? How well is that working? Are you still recruiting "hosts"? If you've been recruiting hosts for the last 14 years, your people are wise to you. They know "hosts" means leader.
Now, don't get me wrong. These have all been very effective methods of recruiting and developing leaders. But, if you are continuing to recruit dwindling amounts of leaders with these same strategies, then you must face the fact that your people have effectively said "No" to these recruiting methods. What could you offer this Fall that they might say "Yes" to?
4. Who will coach your new leaders?
Just reading that question evokes a lot of guilt for most small group coaches. I know your coaching structure is not what you imagined or is non-existent. Some of you have even deceived yourselves into thinking that staff can handle the needs of group leaders. You're sending out emails and inviting people to meetings. How are those meetings working out?
The most important person in the life of a group leader is his or her coach. I was the sole coach for all of my leaders for a long time. Technically, it worked. Practically, it didn't. They didn't receive the care and support they needed. In fact, one year all of them quit. That was not a Ground Hog Day I ever wanted to repeat, so we put coaching in place before we recruited another group leader.
The main focus of any small group pastor should be on two things: coaching and curriculum. Coaches are the only way to know what's in the head and heart of a group leader. And, of course, coaches must be accountable to you or your small group team depending on the size of your church.
5. What training tool will be more effective?
Seminary taught me I needed to train leaders in meetings. I offered meetings. Some were better attended than others. Once I stood in an empty room at about 15 minutes after the start time questioning the call of God on my life because no one had showed up for my training. Then, I had a big realization: people hate meetings.
Heading into this Fall (and attempting to avoid another Ground Hog Day), are you in the training business or the meeting business? They are not the same thing. If your training is based on centralized meetings, then you are missing a good portion of your leaders. How else can you train? I started this blog by answering my group leaders questions. Some small group pastors create a 2 minute video they email to their leaders every week. What could training look like in your church?
A while back I was talking to a pastor who had a background in corporate training. He told me, "This might sound strange considering my background, but I've come to realize the best training comes from the person who is proximate to the group leader when they are facing a problem." Now, we're back to coaching.
6. How will more groups continue into the New Year?
Creating a lot of excitement and starting a bunch of groups for a six week series is relatively easy. The test comes at the end of the six weeks. For some reason when people are invited into a six week study, they get the impression that at the end of the six weeks their group is done. I don't know where they would get such a crazy idea.
If we don't challenge these groups to continue, then not only will we experience Ground Hog Day every Fall, we will have Ground Hog Day at the start of every semester and every group launch. In North America, people like to stay together. This is why the apprentice model is a struggle. This is also why semester-based groups which practice what I call "fruit basket upset" at the end of the semester create a lot more work and dissatisfaction among group members.
If you give groups an opportunity to continue in the middle of your Fall series, chances are they will take you up on it. If you execute all six points of this post well, you could have 80 percent or more of your groups continue.
Ground Hog Day isn't just for February.
What are you willing to change this Fall that will increase your result and effectiveness in forming and retaining groups? What risk are you willing to take? Would you lower the requirements for group leaders temporarily? Would you try a new strategy to form groups? Could you try your hand at developing a coaching structure and reworking your training?
This Fall could be unlike any Fall launch you've lead before. Isn't it time to get out of the cycle of Ground Hog Day. If you would like to learn more, please join me for an upcoming webinar: allenwhite.org/webinars
7 Insights for Successful Small Group Launches
Posted by Allen White in Small Group Strategy on May 24, 2016
By Allen White
I've seen small group launches go really well. And, I've had churches come to me after the launch or a series of launches and ask for help. Not so secretly, I really wish I had the opportunity to talk to them first. Any church only has so many opportunities to successfully launch groups and connect the majority of their members. Failure to launch in these circumstances is fatal for future launch attempts.
As I've worked with churches, large and small, across North America, I have discovered seven things that help churches successfully launch groups. By having these things in place, you have a better chance of recruiting the leaders and coaches you need, forming groups that will last, and make your senior pastor a raving fan of groups.
Insight #1: Choose the Right Topic.
The right or wrong topic will make or break your launch. Think about who you are trying to connect: church members or folks in the community. If you chose a mature topic like tithing or fasting, more than likely you'll have a tough road getting your members to participate let alone anyone from outside of your church. Think about topics that would be a felt need for your people and your community.
I've coached churches who have done a two step strategy with this. The first campaign was used to connect and cast vision to the church body. The second campaign was designed for the church to reach the community. For instance, Capital Area Christian Church in the Harrisburg, PA area launched a New Year's series in 2015 called Manifesto. This series laid out the vision and mission of the church to their people. Then, after Easter 2015, the launched a second series called Monsters Under the Bed, which addresses the topic of fear — now that's a significant felt need. In the second series, they connect more in their congregation, but also quite a few in their community.
Insight #2: Lower the Bar on Leadership.
That doesn't mean throwing people who are completely unprepared with no coach into the deep end. When I say, "lower the bar" I mean temporarily setting aside your requirements for short term series groups. These groups aren't advertised. You don't send people to these groups. You invite people who are open to doing a study with their friends give small groups a try. Maybe for the first time.
If they have a good experience leading a group, then invite them to do more. Eventually, you will offer them a leadership track to make them official leaders. If things didn't go so well for them, then thank them for giving it a try and encourage them to try another ministry.
As Neil Cole says, "We need to lower the bar on what it means to be a leader and raise the bar on what it means to be a disciple." Not everyone has a leadership gift, but we are all called to "go and make disciples." No one is exempt from the Great Commission. By giving your people an easy to use tool like a video-based curriculum, you can help your people live in obedience to God by equipping them for what God commands them to do. When did this become an option?
Insight #3: Focus on Recruiting Group Leaders.
If your pastor is willing to give "airtime" in the weekend service to talk about groups, recruit leaders. If your pastor gives you airtime for multiple weekends, recruit leaders. If you are recruiting leaders, people will figure out the church is launching groups or doing a church-wide campaign. Don't waste this precious airtime promoting groups. And, certainly don't waste this precious airtime promoting classes and Bible studies that are on their way out. Recruit leaders.
Insight #4: Keep the Invitation and the Response Close Together.
People only think about church when they are in church. When the pastor invites folks to lead a group, then provide a way IN THE SERVICE for them to respond. Don't send them to the lobby. Don't send them to the website. Don't send them out the door without collecting their response.
Whether you use a response card which is placed in the offering, an online survey taken on a smartphone, or texting a message to a designated number, you want to get a "Yes" from every willing person before they head out the door. If you send an email invitation from the Senior Pastor during the week, provide a link for them to sign up online.
Insight #5: Shorten the Distance Between Their "Yes" and Starting the Group.
Since we've already waved the requirements, the new leaders are already one step closer to starting their group. Whether the Senior Pastor encourages them in the service to begin inviting people to their groups or they are instructed on how to form their groups in a briefing immediately after the service, don't allow any time to pass from when they say "Yes" to when the new leaders put things in motion.
The longer you wait, the sooner they will get cold feet. Don't schedule a briefing or orientation a month from the invitation because it's efficient. I would rather host three briefs per weekend for three weeks in a row with a handful of people at each than wait a month and lose half of the prospective leaders in the process. You've made it easy for people to start groups, now get them started!
Insight #6: Recruit During the Month Prior to Your Launch.
While you can promote well in advance of the series, don't take signups for months. I learned this from a PTA president. Promote early and often, but only take signups right before the event. Otherwise, you can recruit and recruit only to discover most people will sign up in the last three weeks before the start of the launch.
One month out gather your existing group leaders to give them the first look at the series. I call this a Sneak Peek. This will honor your leaders by giving them an exclusive opportunity to check out the new study. This will also take pressure off of your new leader briefings by briefing your established leaders ahead of time. This is also a great opportunity to recruit your established leaders to coach new leaders.
Then, recruit new leaders for the three weeks leading up to the launch. Not everyone attends every weekend, so you want to ask for more than one weekend. Also, some people will need time to warm up to the idea. The first week they might say "No" to leading a group, but by the third week, their "No" might turn to a "Yes."
Insight #7: Your Senior Pastor Must be Your Church's Small Group Champion.
Going back 20 years, I used to personally recruit every small group leader in my church. While I had stellar group leaders, my church also got stuck at 30 percent of our people in groups. Then, I asked my Senior Pastor to invite people to lead groups. We doubled our groups in a day. I have not personally recruited another small group leader since 2004. And, I served in a whole other church since then!
To gain your Senior Pastor's interest in groups, put your pastor on the curriculum. If you do, your pastor will be more interested in groups because he will want people to use his curriculum. Also, your people will be far more interested in joining a group, because they already like your pastor's teaching.
I know I gave you these seven insights in rapid fire succession. If you hit these seven points, you will have a great small group launch. If you want to hear more, then register for my next webinar at allenwhite.org/webinars.
The Primary Purpose of Small Groups
Posted by Allen White in Small Group Strategy on May 3, 2016
By Allen White
Theories and strategies abound regarding the primary purpose of small groups. There are so many great reasons to promote groups. Small groups solve the assimilation problem in a church. They increase connection and spiritual growth. People in small groups tend to serve more than people who are not in groups. And, people in groups also tend to give more than people who are not in small groups. (Based on research by Ed Stetzer and Eric Geiger in Transformational Groups and Robert Wuthnow in Sharing the Journey). But, none of these is the primary purpose of small groups.
The primary purpose of small groups is leadership development.
Small groups rise and fall on leadership development. Now, this isn't just recruiting leaders for a six week churchwide campaign. That's a start. Developing leaders requires training, coaching, and processing experiences. I would even go so far as to say leadership development is the end result of effective discipleship.
Meet Doug. When I first met Doug, he didn't consider himself to be a leader at all. In fact, Doug had always thought he was dumb. You see he had never finished high school. Doug was now retired in his sixties and had spent his carrier driving and operating a construction crane. He drove this huge crane all over the San Francisco Bay Area, which to be honest, it's difficult enough to commute there with a car sometimes — let alone a huge crane!
Doug and his wife, Kay, started a group during one of our churchwide campaigns. They were great. Very hospitable. They were naturals.
As our small group ministry grew, I developed a leadership team to help me oversee and coach our small group leaders. Around this time Doug was heavily involved in a multilevel marketing company. I noticed how well he managed relationships. He worked with so many people, yet kept in constant contact and kept both his down line motivated and his customers rolling in. I saw Doug had what it takes to coach others and serve on my small group team. I just asked him to keep his product out of the coaching. He agreed.
After working with Doug for a few years, first as a small group leader, then as a coach on our small group leadership team, it came time for me to leave the church I had served for 15 years. Doug left me with these words, "Thank you, Pastor Allen, for showing me I was the leader I never knew I was." That's probably the best compliment I've ever been given.
I don't remember who was in Doug's group or the leaders he coached. I don't recall all of the great things that happened in these groups, but I do remember the great thing that happened in Doug. He went from a guy who thought he was dumb to a leader who multiplied his life in the lives of hundreds of other people.
If as a small group pastor or director, you focus on connecting a bunch of potential members into groups, you'll end up with a huge stack of sign up cards and an ineffective system to manage them. Read about my hatred for sign up cards here. If your senior pastor gives airtime to small groups in the weekend service, recruit leaders. Don't waste that precious commodity inviting prospective members to join groups. If the new leader has the stuff, they can gather a group.
You can spend all of your time creating curriculum. Curriculum is not a bad thing. But, then your groups turn into life on curriculum instead of life on life.
But, make an investment in your leaders, and you have something that will build your small groups life nothing else. As Simon Sinek says, "You don't hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills." If you find people with a heart for others and the relational warmth to gather a group or reach out to group leaders, then you can equip them with everything they need to do it. Find the right people and make the investment.
Is the Church Wide Campaign a Dinosaur?
Posted by Allen White in Small Group Strategy on April 4, 2016
By Allen White
The church wide campaign was introduced 14 years ago most famously by the 40 Days of Purpose and The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren. Boy, the innovators and influencers who jumped into that one hit it big. I've heard stories of churches actually connecting more people into groups than they had on Easter Sunday. Those were crazy times.
There's something great about being first. The first church to implement a new idea in a community usually reaps deep dividends. The first church in your town to introduce contemporary worship was probably looked upon with suspicion by other churches, but that church also outgrew all of their critics. Today, you can throw a rock and hit a church with contemporary worship. The same goes for seeker services, sermon note-taking sheets, or drama sketches in the service. (Okay, we gave up on drama sketches a long time ago. Not many could pull that off.)
But after all of these years, is the church-wide campaign still relevant?
1. Does Your Church Suffer from Church Wide Campaign Fatigue?
Some churches have overdone the church-wide campaign. They are aligning everything all of the time with the weekend service and making one big push after another. While the pastor will be preaching a sermon every weekend and small groups will be studying something, continuing to launch one church-wide campaign after another leads to campaign fatigue. The pastor just gets tired of promoting it, and the people get tired of hearing it.
If your church has successfully connected 30-50 percent or more of your groups using a church-wide campaign and the Host strategy, a church-wide campaign has probably lost its luster with your congregation. You're not seeing the results you used to. While there are some exceptions, most churches can start off strong by running three church-wide campaigns in their first year, then they need to back off to one church-wide aligned series per year.
In the first year, groups need the continuity of starting with one campaign, then continuing into the next. But, once groups have made it through that first year, it's harder to get them to align, which is okay. After all, the beauty of small groups is in the variety of things they can study, not in uniformity. There are some exceptions.
2. Who Should Continue Using Church Wide Campaigns?
Rapidly growing churches must continue running campaigns to recruit new leaders and form new groups just to keep up with the church's dramatic growth. People who are new to the church need new groups to help them grow and find their way. Small groups are the best solution to the assimilation dilemma created in rapidly growing churches.
Churches in college towns or near military bases usually experience high turnover every year. Manna Church, Fayetteville, NC sits next to Fort Bragg. This church of 4,000 adults must replace 1,000 adults every year to maintain their current attendance. Church-wide campaigns have helped them start as many as 700 small groups at a time. What's cool about this is the groups started at Manna Church are reassigned or deployed throughout the world. These small groups will soon become microsite churches. Churches with a revolving door like Manna's can run church-wide campaigns from now until the cows come home.
3. Pre-Packaged Church Wide Campaigns Have Run Their Course.
Let's face it. There is only one Rick Warren and one 40 Days of Purpose. I doubt we will ever see a phenomena like that again. While we cannot argue with the success of the second bestselling non-fiction book of all time, only part of the success of those church-wide campaigns came from the topic.
Granted a church must have a great topic to appeal to the community at large, but other factors also lead to the success of that first major church-wide campaign. Linking a small group study to the pastor's sermon was certainly a key to success. While some might attribute connecting Rick Warren to the pastor's sermon as the key here, I see it the other way.
Let's face it, if people aren't connected to each other, the reason they attend your church, other than Jesus Christ, is because of your Senior Pastor. They like his personality, jokes, and teaching. Now, don't mention this to your worship pastor, it will break his heart. The Senior Pastor's involvement with promoting 40 Days of Purpose and promoting small groups was the "It Factor" in the success of that campaign and any other. But, there is one more thing you can do for even more success.
4. Create Your Own Church Wide Campaign.
As I said, people like their Senior Pastors. If a church does a church-wide campaign with their pastor's invitation for groups, they will recruit leaders and connect people into groups like never before. It's a guaranteed home run, but it could be a grand slam home run.
In addition to their Senior Pastor's leadership in recruiting group leaders and aligning a sermon series with a group study, if the Senior Pastor created a study with his own teaching, the church can hit the ball out of the park. Just in the last 12 months, I've seen churches recruit 20-25 percent of their adults to lead groups, which has put group participation well over 100 percent. By offering the pastor's teaching on a video-based curriculum, the congregation is getting more of what they already like — their pastor's teaching!
That might seem like a of work and a lot to figure out. I want to help you. I am putting together a six month coaching group specifically focused on creating your own curriculum and then launching the campaign in your church. You don't need to pay someone tens of thousands of dollars to create curriculum for you. I can show you how you can do it yourself. If you would like more information, I am presenting a webinar called "Create Your Own Curriculum." For specific times and registration: allenwhite.org/webinars or contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Not everyone will see things this way. And, that's okay. But, to state it honestly, not everyone is seeing the results I've seen in the last year. Last year, the average church I worked with launched 277 groups. This could be you (provided you have 277 people!).
For most churches, the pre-packaged campaign has gone the way of the dinosaur. If you're still experience great success and have over 100 percent of your folks in groups, please correct me. For churches who've never tried a campaign, then buying one might help you make a good start. But, creating your own materials with your pastor's teaching is the way of the future — it's affordable, flexible, and best of all, it's yours!
5.5 Questions with Fr. Charlie Holt
Posted by Allen White in 5.5 Questions with on February 10, 2016
By Allen White
Today's guest is Father Charlie Holt, the Rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church and School in Lake Mary, FL. He is also the President of Bible Study Media, a non-profit Christian publisher. He is an instructor with the Institute for Christian Studies and serves as a collaborative partner with Pathways to Home, a ministry aiding homeless families in Central Florida. He and his wife, Brooke, have three children.
1. When I first met you a decade ago, your church launched a ridiculous number of groups based on your size for the 40 Days of Purpose. How did that come about? What happened?
Like many other churches, St. Peter's participated in Rick Warren's 40 Days of Purpose. At the time we had about 260 people attending on a weekend. After watching the training videos by Rick Warren, our leadership team took Pastor Warren's inspirational challenge to think exponentially. We added a "0" to our goal of having 10 small groups. So, we set a goal to have 100 small groups and 1,000 people participate. I think the truth is that we didn't know how big of a goal we had set. We would need 50% of our member households to open up their homes and host a group!
The Lord blessed us abundantly, even though we did not reach the goal. What did happen is that 70 small groups were started with 700 participants–that is 300% of our average weekend attendance participating in the campaign! Over 65% of the people who did that campaign with us were not members of our church. We added 30 new families to our membership that year, and our operating budget grew by $100,000.
The 40 Days of Purpose taught me the evangelistic power of a small group campaign.
2. As an Episcopal priest, what is the uniqueness of launching groups in a liturgical church?
One of the great things about the liturgical church is the emphasis on alignment with the church year. We follow a seasonal approach that walks the entire congregation through the life of Christ. This means that there are certain seasons that really lend themselves to a small group emphasis. The 40-day period of Lent or the Great 50 days between Easter and Pentecost are wonderful times to call the entire church to consider the Gospel in community. A liturgical church is united by common prayer and common practices. This culture of community lends itself to church-wide focus. The challenge is that there are not many small group resources written with the liturgical church in mind.
3. Lake Mary, Florida, where you serve is a rather affluent community. How do you gain and keep your congregation's attention on small groups with so many distractions in their lives?
This is a challenge of our day for Christianity in general. School, sports, and entertainment dominate the families' focus and time. I believe the key first step is that I personally as a pastor have to model an alternative way of life for the people of the Lord. I need to live life in a small group so I can authentically experience the challenge and speak of it with my people.
Another strategy is to expose people to the small group concept in shorter bursts and smaller steps. Introduce people to the blessing of life lived in small group community without overwhelming them. A six-week study is a small enough commitment that a busy person could say yes. But it is long enough to break some patterns. The prayer and hope is that the blessings of life in community will outweigh the curses caused by over-commitment and over-scheduling. Always have a second step to offer for those who catch on.
4. You are the author of the Christian Life Trilogy. Why did you create this series for the Lenten, Easter, and Pentecost seasons?
The Christian Life Trilogy comes from a longing and desire to see the heart of the church renewed around the heart of God at the heart of the Christian year. As I said in an earlier answer, I have found it difficult to find solid biblical material that aligns with the patterns of the Christian liturgical calendar. Lent, Easter, and Pentecost tell the greatest story ever! We need some materials that take us through the core message of that journey with Jesus' death, resurrection, and ascension purposefully, prayerfully, and reflectively. I pray that the individuals and congregations that use the Christian Life Trilogy materials will find themselves centered on the things of first importance—Jesus Christ, and Him crucified and raised from the dead. Let us die with Him, that we too may be raised to new life and filled with all of the fullness of God in the gift of the Holy Spirit.
5. Now that many churches of various sizes (including megachurches) and denominations have participated in the Christian Life Trilogy, what have you learned about launching groups in a church-wide campaign?
In the first year of its publication, the Trilogy had over 50 congregations from various denominations and contexts participate with over 4,000 participants. My observation is that the several congregations that really saw tremendous fruit were the ones that took the time to plan with prayer and intention.
The most impactful Church-wide campaigns take several months in advance of their launch to slowly, prayerfully, and methodically build a momentum toward a movement of God. A strong lay leadership team and the support of the church council is fundamental. It takes time to effectively clear the calendar of meetings and other agenda items without alienating your key leaders. If the senior pastor and a strong leadership team are focused with singular purpose on the Gospel and do a good job casting the vision to the people of God, the Lord will bless the effort and multiply His kingdom. God the Father loves it when His people focus on His Son!
5.5 Out of The Crucified Life, The Resurrected Life, and The Spirit-filled Life, which is your favorite?
I love the Spirit-Filled Life! It was the most fun to write and amazing to see implemented in my own congregation. I had a parishioner tell me that they thought the Crucified Life would be a tough sell. After all who really wants to pick up their cross? I think that is true. However, you can't get to the Spirit-Filled Life until you have died with Christ. The pathway to full fellowship with God is through the Cross, Resurrection, and Holy Spirit.


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History was made last night–but not the history that was expected. In a shocking victory that stunned even political projectionists, what was thought to be improbable is now a reality. Who put him in office? Well, I think it's clear: rural, uneducated white males and females who felt locked out of the political system. Adding to that, 90 Million people chose not to vote. Do the math. I don't know what to expect from his presidency but I will pray that God will lead him to do what is right for the American people. And maybe he actually might Make America Great Again. *Shrugs*
This is just yet another lesson learned.
Sidebar: Hillary Clinton is a very evil woman. People really don't know the depths of malevolence in this woman. Trump was perhaps the lesser of two evils.
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The local buzz about German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer's "Rivers and Tides" began almost two years ago, after the private screening of a rough cut at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
When the lambent portrait of British "land artist" Andy Goldsworthy won grand prizes for documentary at film festivals in Berlin and San Francisco, the buzz went transcontinental.
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Riedelsheimer, 38, is in the Bay Area to begin his next project, a study of percussionist Evelyn Glennie. He will appear at the Roxie this evening to answer audience questions after an 8 p.m. screening of "Rivers and Tides."
Trained in Munich as a still photographer and film cameraman, Riedelsheimer first became aware of Goldsworthy's work through a magazine article about six years ago.
"There were some strange statements by Andy in it, like 'I want to understand the stone,' that really interested me," Riedelsheimer said during a visit to The Chronicle. "And I was really amazed by the images. Later I found a book of his and wrote to the editor."
Many filmmakers have approached Goldsworthy with ideas for documentaries, but Riedelsheimer actually flew to Scotland to visit him for a few days.
"I sent him my previous film" -- a documentary about people who concern themselves with death -- "and I think that after seeing it, he was very interested to meet me," Riedelsheimer said. "As with all of my films, it was first the person and then the work that interested me. Why do people do what they do, think what they think?"
"I think of film as pictures in motion, and he does still pictures, so I thought time should be a substantial element of the film," Riedelsheimer said. "Andy was working on his book 'Time' then, so we had this common understanding. "
As both cameraman and editor of "Rivers and Tides," Riedelsheimer risked conflict with Goldsworthy over creative decisions.
Early on, when they were filming in Nova Scotia, where Goldsworthy had never worked before, "I ran behind him with my camera," Riedelsheimer recalled,
"and every time he lifted a stone I thought there'd be some great piece of art coming out. There was this new pressure on both of us. At one point I asked him, 'What are you trying to do?' and he frowned at me and said, 'I'm trying to think.' He later explained that he had never allowed a filmmaker to come so close to him and his feelings about his work."
The most difficult part of "Rivers and Tides," aside from financing it, was the editing, Riedelsheimer said, "because everything in Andy's work is so connected." Shooting the film took a year, and editing it took another.
"To find the narrative was very difficult. We had 13 or 14 different edited versions," Riedelsheimer said. "There were all these different locations and seasons. It was the image of the river running this way and that, like a film, that finally saved me. When Andy speaks (on the soundtrack) of all the effort that goes into something that appears effortless, I know just what he means."
Viewers of "Rivers and Tides" are startled to see the frustrations and failures that Goldsworthy's improvised sculptures in nature entail. The artist's own photographs avoid them, but he wanted the film to show them.
"In fact it's not so easy to get these collapses," Riedelsheimer said. "The stone doesn't tell you when it's going to collapse. With the ice cone, you can hear something cracking. But we wasted rolls of film trying to get the stone cone collapsing. It's hard even for Andy to tell."
People who see "Rivers and Tides" find it hard to believe the struggle Riedelsheimer has had finding a commercial distributor for the film.
A British firm markets an abbreviated video version, but "the idea," Riedelsheimer said, "was always to make something for the big screen. It's very difficult for documentaries to be shown in commercial cinemas anywhere in the world."
The pending commercial release of "Rivers and Tides" in Manhattan may tell us what influence the Bay Area's embrace of the film has had.
RIVERS AND TIDES: Thomas Riedelsheimer's film plays at the Roxie, 3117 16th St., San Francisco, (415) 863-1087, through Tuesday and opened Thursday at the Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael, (415) 454-1222. Riedelsheimer will answer audience questions after tonight's screening at the Roxie.


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In New York City, chef Daisuke Nakazawa is known for his pricey omakase menu at Sushi Nakazawa in the West Village. Among sushi fans (like Martha Stewart) Nakazawa has a cult following and he's attracted rave reviews from critics — including a rare four star rating from the New York Time's famously anti-fine-dining critic Peter Wells. But his recent decision to take over the dining at the grand Old Post Office building, aka, Trump's new D.C. hotel, has foodies up in arms.
"I will never eat in his restaurant," Anthony Bourdain told Eater late last year. "I have utter contempt for him, utter and complete contempt."
You may think that rather ambiguous "him" is referring to to President Donald Trump — and true Bourdain is definitely not in camp Trump — but in fact, Bourdain is talking about Alessandro Borgognone, Nakazawa's business partner.
"I'm not asking you to start putting up barricades now," Bourdain added, "but when they come and ask you, 'Are you with us?' You do have an option. You can say 'No thanks, guys. I don't look good in a brown shirt. Makes me look a little, I don't know, not great. It's not slimming.'
Chef Geoffrey Zakarian, a former LLNYC cover star, was originally slated to take over the hotel's dining space, but he pulled out after Trump called Mexicans "rapists."
"I'm going to D.C. to look at two spaces, because my buddy Donald, he fucked up," Zakarian, a noted libertarian, told the Village Voice. "He opened his fucking mouth."
And no matter what your politics, it looks like Zakarian made the right move — despite the resulting lawsuits — as Borgognone and Nakazawa are now experiencing severe blowback, according to Esquire.
"You can't fault a businessperson," Borgognone told Esquire. "Our decision was based on that. If people don't walk in and we're dead, then it was a bad business decision. I'm man enough to live with that. We didn't have a political agenda. We didn't want to kiss Trump's ass. We fell in love with the building."
Borgognone also fire back at Bourdain, calling him a "glorified line cook on CNN," and claimed that revenue at Sushi Nakazawa hasn't slipped.
Borgognone also described himself as a registered Democrat who's "socially liberal, fiscally conservative." He added that he does have respect for Trump, who isn't "as stupid as everybody says."
And just in case you aren't convinced that he puts business before politics, Borgognone tells Esquire that Sushi Nakazawa once snubbed then-presidential-candidate Ted Cruz because there wasn't space in the restaurant.
In New York, Borgognone and Nakazawa have faced smaller criticisms, e.g. for frosting their restaurant's windows. Sushi Nakazawa was recently stripped of its Michelin star — to the outcry of fans. And their new restaurant in the historic Chumley's bar space at 86 Bedford Street came at the end of a contentious lawsuit with neighbors — who for the record were somewhat relieved a respectably chef like Nakazawa was moving in instead of a "bridge and tunnel" bar.
But their new Faustian deal with our nation's most controversial leader (in recent history at least) will surely test the strength of their growing restaurant empire. In a moment of all out political war, arguing that "it's just good business" to throw in with Trump, sounds like a Vichy-esque acquiescence to many. Perhaps it's time to put down your chopsticks.


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Minimotifs are short contiguous peptide sequences in proteins that have known functions. At its simplest level, the minimotif sequence is present in a source protein and has an activity relationship with a target, most of which are proteins. While many scientists routinely investigate new minimotif functions in proteins, the major web-based discovery tools have a high rate of false-positive prediction. Any new approach that reduces false-positives will be of great help to biologists.
Methods and Findings
We have built three filters that use genetic interactions to reduce false-positive minimotif predictions. The basic filter identifies those minimotifs where the source/target protein pairs have a known genetic interaction. The HomoloGene genetic interaction filter extends these predictions to predicted genetic interactions of orthologous proteins and the node-based filter identifies those minimotifs where proteins that have a genetic interaction with the source or target have a genetic interaction. Each filter was evaluated with a test data set containing thousands of true and false-positives. Based on sensitivity and selectivity performance metrics, the basic filter had the best discrimination for true positives, whereas the node-based filter had the highest sensitivity. We have implemented these genetic interaction filters on the Minimotif Miner 2.3 website. The genetic interaction filter is particularly useful for improving predictions of posttranslational modifications such as phosphorylation and proteolytic cleavage sites.
Genetic interaction data sets can be used to reduce false-positive minimotif predictions. Minimotif prediction in known genetic interactions can help to refine the mechanisms behind the functional connection between genes revealed by genetic experimentation and screens.
Amino acid sequence; Biology; Genetics; Minimotifs; Peptides; Proteins
Biology | Genetics and Genomics | Life Sciences
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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Merlin, J. C.,
Rajasekaran, S.,
Mi, T.,
Schiller, M.
Reducing false-positive prediction of minimotifs with a genetic interaction filter.
PLoS One, 7(3),


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If Bill Murray rolled up to your place in a convertible, dressed to the nines (or at least his version of it), you'd pay attention, wouldn't you? Say he wanted to sell you drugs to make a little extra cash on the side. Maybe he'd even throw in a little sweet-talking from his Russian-prostitute paramour (Naomi Watts). Seems like a pretty decent deal ... except that, as Murray finds out in this exclusive clip from his new comedy St. Vincent (out today), the prescription drugs he's willing to part with aren't exactly in high demand. It's just one of the many well-intentioned but haphazardly executed plans that Murray's character finds himself in the middle of in this film, where his primary task is taking care of his next-door neighbor's son (a gig that also doesn't go so well, until it does). But as long as we're suggesting some unusual part-time jobs for Murray ... how about Saturday Night Live host?


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the foremost part or surface of anything
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land facing a road, river, etc
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an interface or zone of transition between two dissimilar air masses
the auditorium
the business offices of a theater
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situated in or at the front:front seats
(of a speech sound) articulated with the tongue blade relatively far forward in the mouth, as the sounds of lay
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the building, house, etc
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the office or dignity of various other officials, or the officials themselves
the seat on which the players of a team sit during a game while not playing
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bench press
Also called workbench
the strong worktable of a carpenter or other mechanic
a platform on which animals are placed for exhibition, especially at a dog show
a contest or exhibition of dogs; dog show
Physical Geography
a shelflike area of rock with steep slopes above and below
a step or working elevation in a mine
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As verb (used with object)
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to cut away the working faces of (a mine or quarry) in benches
to remove from a game or keep from participating in a game:to be benched because of poor hitting
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on the bench, serving as a judge in a court of law; presiding
(of a player) not participating in play, either for part or all of a game
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