elements of a weekly meeting
LA Metro Ministry

Below is a list of ideas that you can use in a weekly meeting on your campus. Not everything would be appropriate for every campus situation but some of these elements might work for your meeting. Of course this list is not exhaustive but it will help get you started.

Elements of a Meeting:

• Prayer
  Have people share recent answers to prayer. One campus has students come to the front and place a marble in a glass bowl representing their answer to prayer and then shares it with the group.
  • Concert of prayer meeting.
  • Prayer walking time during the meeting.
  • Have students break up into small groups and share prayer requests and pray for each other.
  • Have a prayer time before the meeting to pray for your movement and the meeting to follow.

• Pass around a clipboard each meeting to gather the names and info of new people. Have someone give them a call that week and add their name to your campus email list.
  
• Have a connection time (meet & greet)
  • Ice breaker question
  • Game
  • Artistic expression thing – For example, draw a picture that represents your last week and share it in small groups.
  • Have people pair up during the meeting to have lunch or coffee sometime during the week.
  • Go out to lunch or some other activity together right after the meeting.
    
• Worship time
  
• Word time: Speaker, Bible study discussion, small groups, speaker facilitated discussion, group talks.
  
• Spotlights: a short segment (about 3-6 minutes) highlighting a recent story, aspect of the ministry, ministry idea, etc.
  • Evangelism stories
  • Highlighting subcultures on campus as people to reach out to - video and interview people from that group. For example athletes, artists, international students, Hispanics, etc.
  • Short training on some ministry aspect. For example, “how to connect with someone in class.”
    
• Announcements / Opportunities Pass out calendar Pass out phone/email list.
  • Seek to make announcements more interesting
  • Highlight some announcements by writing them on the chalkboard or hanging up a poster in the room.
  • Call them, “things you need to know.”
    
• Testimonies
  • Summer projects/Missions trips
  • Salvation
  • Christmas conference
  • What God is teaching me
  • Answered prayer
  • What God is leading me to do, applications.
  • Changed lives
  • A story about a recent outreach
    
• Have a sharing time. For example, “what has God been teaching you?” “What have you seen God do this semester?” etc.
  
• Skits
  
• Multi-Media
  • Video of recent events, etc
  • Video of students on campus answering spiritual questions. Gives vision for doing evangelism.
  • Video slideshow
    
• Share the gospel at the meeting
  
• Do mini-outreach for the meeting. For example meet, pray, pair up and go sharing, come back for sharing/debrief.