Because every Small Group is at different levels of development, how you go about choosing a P.E.A.C.E. Champion could be unique from group to group.  Consider these steps as you work to identify your P.E.A.C.E. Champion:

1. Have every member of your Small Group read the description of a P.E.A.C.E. Champion

2. Through email or during one of your group meetings have a discussion to identify the best candidate

3. Remember, for now this doesn’t have to be a long term commitment.  You are looking for someone to take responsibility for leading your Small Group through the process of doing a P.E.A.C.E. Project.

Remember, as you work to identify your P.E.A.C.E. Champion, the P.E.A.C.E. Plan is a Purpose Driven plan.  This means that for your group to be effective at P.E.A.C.E. it is essential some where along the way that your group identifies champions for all five of the purposes.  This allows your group to be a biblical and healthy small group with a solid foundation for P.E.A.C.E.  Take some time and review the descriptions of the other purpose champions to see if there is anyone in your group willing to take advantage of these opportunities.  Begin the process to ensure each of these champions have been identified in your group:

Membership Champion
Maturity Champion
Ministry Champion
Missions Champion
Magnification Champion

Look familiar?  These champions are based on the five purposes of our church.  Below is a brief description for each of these Purpose Champions:

Membership Champion

• Champions the community building functions within the small group

• Keys to Success

• Serves as the welcome wagon to newcomers

• Facilitates sharing time, ice breakers, open questions, and mixers

• Honors people by celebrating their special days (anniversaries, birthdays, life achievements, etc)

• Keeps the group roster updated

• Ideas for Membership Champions

• Hosts a fun gathering for members' birthdays

• Has a dinner party

• Is the "Care Caller" to follow up with the members of the group when they are new, late, or absent

• Plans retreats and outings 

Maturity Champion

• Champions spiritual maturity in your group

• Keys to Success

• Encourages the spiritual habits learned in CLASS 201

• Assists the Small Group Host Leader with communion

• Creates new ways to refresh and replenish the group spiritually

• Assists in the overall spiritual formation of your group by suggesting and encouraging spiritual exercises (things that will improve spiritual growth like fasting, prayers, tithing, spiritual memory, and other maturity events.)

• Encourages CLASS attendance

• Ideas for Maturity Champions

• Encourages members to develop a spiritual journal

• Shares a devotional reading with your group

• Coordinates weekly prayers and praise reports

• Teaches the group to pray creatively

Ministry Champion

• Champions the SHAPE discovery, deployment, and development process for both members and the group's ministry involvement.

• Keys for Success

• Encourages CLASS 301 attendance

• Promotes and helps coordinate group service opportunities

• Facilitates group sharing times

• Ideas for Ministry Champions

• Encourages everyone to test drive new areas of ministry

• Encourages serving as group greeters on third Sundays (with small groups)  

Missions Champion

• Champions the group outreach and fulfilling one's life mission in the world

• Keys to Success

• Prays regularly for the unconnected and the un-churched

• Encourages filling the open chair

• Encourages and helps organize P.E.A.C.E. opportunities (locally and globally)

• Ideas for Missions Champions

• Helps group members put together a mission statement for their lives

• Encourages members to participate in a P.E.A.C.E. Project as a group

• Links up with a mission organization to learn more about missions to your community. 

Magnification Champion

• Champions the value of worship in the small group setting, attending worship services together and simply getting the group to focus vertically in their relationship with God.

• Keys to Success

• Provides a regular worship experience during group time. (Introduce new music, sing together, or even go see Christian artists together.)

• Encourages the group to attend worship services together in church or in the community

• Encourages the group to attend baptisms, communion, and other worship services together

• Ideas for Magnification Champions

• Hosts an outdoor or off site communion

• Uses praise or worship CDs during group times

• Reads a Psalm or two and have reflection time

• Encourages the group to go to a gospel concert together

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