Holding Students Accountable for Small Group Attendance

Caution: I wouldn’t recommend doing this with students you don’t have a solid relationship with.

I have a small group student who has become very lazy about attending small group. It’s a little ironic because he lives just a couple of streets over from where we meet. Others who have to drive a much longer distance, however, never miss.

Tonight I put a note on his Facebook wall saying we missed him in small group. His excuse was that he was watching the hockey game on TV. As a person who has poured into his life and helped him through some tough situations, I’ve earned the right to push him a little in the area of accountability. There are other students in my group I would never be this bold with because I have not yet earned the right.

Here’s another one from tonight. Sounds a little bit more legit, but he’s also been gone a lot. I took this opportunity to remind him that his small group is there for him for stuff like this.