Meeting Formats

Meeting together weekly and almost always in a lecture format will probably not get you very far. Many of the topics you’re interested in focusing on during large group meetings lend themselves to creative and varied formats. By varying your format you can help others learn more and keep your meetings interesting.

As you consider your topics, check this list to see which of these formats might best suit the topic and your group. You can combine some of these at one meeting, but not too many. Add some creativity to our meetings by trying a:

Concert of prayer

Formal debate

Bible exposition

Question/answer

Open forum

Lecture

Presentation with rebuttal

Lecture with prepared student response

Mini-missions conference (different stations to visit)

Panel discussion

Multi-media, film, slides, video

Musical concert

Dramatic readings

Interview

Simulation games

Reader’s theater

Mime

Acting out parable or other scriptures

Evangelism resource fair (stations with materials, demonstrations)

Story telling

Role plays

Book reviews

Skits to introduce topics

Dinners to raise awareness of issues (e.g. hunger)

Interpretive dance

One-act play

Contemporary song festival

Silent meeting (extended time for silent reflection)

Hymn festival

Clowning (clown actions to illustrate parables)

Soliloquoy (e.g. Moses speaking to God)