Before we start the course, consider watching the training video again.
Session plan
Admin
- Sign in everyone in the group and give a name badge
- Hospitality to be set up before we start
- Host to introduce the course
Video
Watch the Alpha video – https://player.vimeo.com/video/184825483.
Small groups
- Name game
- “Everyone thinks of a positive adjective that starts with the same letter as your first name” e.g., “Jovial John” or “Happy Helen”
- Start with the person on your left. They must say their name and positive adjective. The next person must say their name and adjective, as well as that of the person before them.
- Each person must try and repeat all the names of the guests preceding them from memory. The host is the last person to go and repeats the names of everyone in the group.
- Be quick to help any guests who might find this more difficult.
- Desert Island Game
- “If you were stuck on a desert island and you could take one thing (not a person) with you, and you already have the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare, what would you take?”
- How and why did you end up coming here today?
- This gives the rest of the group permission to say what they really think. Try to draw more out of guests if they are a bit hesitant. Start with the guest you think is most reluctant/hostile about doing Alpha to encourage other guests to open up and be honest.
- If it turned out there was a God after all, and you could ask one question, what would it be?
- Encourage guests, “These are great questions.”
- Write the questions down on a piece of paper to come back to
them at the end of Alpha.
End
Finish on time and carry on discussion elsewhere (e.g., café) for those who want to. Next week:- Who Is Jesus?