Before we move on ...
0. Checklist
- Have you read the VR4Christ - Starter's kit? If not, do so NOW!
- Have you made it a point to pray every day asking God how He may use you that day? If not, make it a point to do so now! Whatever you give into God's hands He'll use and multiply, just like what He did with the 2 loaves and 5 fish that a little boy gave to Him!
- Have you joined any prayer fellowship in your area? If not, start one in your area and invite others!
- Have you added yourself to the group's address book? If not add yourself now! The "Address book" is in the database section of the group. You'll have to login to your Yahoo profile to access this page. Particularly, enter the field "mail checking frequency". If you check your mails frequently, then it will be easy to communicate any new plans to you. If you don't check your mails frequently, get to know someone who checks frequently, so that you can get updates from that person.
- Go through previous mails to get an idea of what is going on in the group.
- Have you joined the VR4Christ Flickr group for sharing the photos taken during group outings? If not, join now!
1.1 Visits: We visit orphanages/poor children's homes, old people homes, etc. and share God's love through songs, skits, message, and gifts. You can come for such visits and contribute your talents.
1.2 Prayer: We gather together regularly in small groups to pray for the work we do through this group, and for our personal spiritual growth. You MUST join one such group and pray!
1.3 Fellowship: We all gather together once a month, to have fellowship and prayer. Please do be there to have fellowship with the group!
1.4 Testimonies: Everybody can share their testimony to our group. It need not be a great miracle that God did in our life, it could be something minor (actually these are also great miracles which we normally don't realize!).
For example, yesterday, on the way to church, I dropped in to a tea stall and had tea. After I started from there I forgot to take off my bike's side stand. I think most of you know that sometimes it could be very dangerous. Normally I ride my bike little faster, when I took a left turn, that road was also really bad, the stand banged against the ground and somehow I managed to balance. Its really God's grace that I escaped. Thank and praise God!
1.5 Prayer Request: We can place our prayer requests. We can note down those points and can include in our daily prayers and also in the group fellowship. Guys, its always good to pray for others. Lets start practicing bearing one another's burden and cry for others and I believe that will make us draw closer to God.
1.6 Bible Study or Preaching: If anyone is interested and have time, they can conduct a Bible study. Also we can share what message we heard in our Church last Sunday or on TV or anywhere else. By doing like this, we can recollect what we heard, we can start practicing it in our life and we can develop our preaching ability by telling this to others (group).
1.7 Discuss some spiritual topics: Feel free to start a thread on your topic of interest. I believe most of you guys start off with "Marriage" :). We can take any names or stories from the Bible and have discussions on this. Or else, any practical points that would help us realize our ignorance and iniquities in our day-to-day life.
Share your thoughts, or share a message: It is always good to share what we feel when we come across some sermon, verse or anything, so that it would be encouraging to others. Recently I saw one quote: "rich is the person who has praying friends". I was so excited and shared with some of my close friends that we are billionaires! These kinds of small, small happiness we can share with others also. They will surely refresh us in the midst of our busy, tensed, stressful work.
1.8 Greetings: We can share birthday and anniversary greetings. Somebody can pray for the one who is celebrating on that day.
1.9 Forwards: We can share. But only good ones and spiritual ones.
1.10 Fun: Have fun serving the Lord! Apostle Paul says, "rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice."
2. More ideas ...
What if you have a new idea, or suggestion that you want to share with the group? Just mail to the group: vr4christ@yahoogroups.com.
If you are deliberating on whether to discuss with the whole group or not, then here is what you can do:
- First pray about it, and then discuss it within a small group of people you know and with whom you are comfortable with.
- When the idea has grown enough to be discussed at the group level, then involve everyone. When to decide that it has grown enough is a judgment call you have to make, no hard-and-fast rule for that!
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