Facebook has had the option of creating groups for quite awhile now. While I recommend using Pages as a way of promoting your BASIC group, I thought it could be helpful to set up a private Facebook group for communicating with your leaders. Creating a group like this provides an easy way to send a message to everyone in leadership at once during the week and facilitate collaboration.
Creating a Facebook group is pretty simple. Once you’re on Facebook’s home page hover your mouse over Groups on the left hand side of the screen. Click on the word “more” when you see it pop up. You will then see a button at the top of the page that says Create Group. You’ll go through setting up your group and can adjust the privacy settings to closed or secret based on what works best for your leaders. Then invite your leaders to join and start the conversation.
After leaders have graduated or decided not to stay on as leaders you can simply remove them by clicking on See All next to Members and then clicking the X button next to their names to remove them from the group. There you have it - you can now use your own private Facebook group to collaborate with leaders throughout the week!
Chris Zeigler and his wife, Cheryl, have been working with BASIC full-time since 2009 and have helped start BASIC groups in the Rochester, NY area at SUNY Geneseo, Monroe Community College, and the University of Rochester. They use their experience from starting groups and traveling to the nearly 30 BASIC ministries to consult and advise churches looking to start new BASIC groups outside of the Rochester area. He and his wife live with their daughter, Melia, in Lima, NY.
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