Base Community - Startup Kits

If your schedule (or travels) and our travels (or schedules) happen to intersect, we would enjoy meeting with you face to face. It would give us the opportunity to sample a Base Community session together.  Write me about your interest via the Guest Book or e-mail Click Here. I'm located in southern Maine, USA and we love to travel.

Here is the StartupKit file that will help you start your own Base Community - BC_Start.Doc (Ms-Word file - about 20K) BC_Start.Txt (ascii text file - about 20K)

How to start a Base Community in your area -

Group people in small groups of 6-7. This can be done by drawing names out of a hat and forming a group by home or work proximity. This will make it easier for people to meet. As the meeting is only 1 hour, people should not have to spend a lot of time traveling. You can start with one group or many groups. People should commit to weekly meetings for at least 6 months. People can then re-form groups as they wish, keeping in mind a maximum of 6-7 in a group.

Usually connected to a church or other sanctuary, a section in the bulletin can pertain to Base Community. This can include a suggested scripture reading with starter questions to help facilitate your readings and discussion. It is recommended that you review the verses and questions before your meeting to help you formulate an understanding and generate ideas on how it can relate to your life and times.

A sample of how some groups meet:

1. Attunement - take some moments of quiet time and take slow deep breaths to center ones-self.  If you are comfortable with each other, then hold hands too.

2. Brief check-in to see how everyone’s week has been. Some "Highs" and "Lows" or times when you felt closer to the Holy Spirit or farther from the Holy Spirit.

3. Reading of the suggested scripture from the weekly bulletin  or a members choice.

4. Discussion of the listed questions from the weekly bulletin or a members choice and also ponder how these relate to your lives  past, today and tomorrow.

5. Review of last weeks commitments by each individual.

6. Making of new commitments for the week - these commitments can be personal, professional, Church related and community related, but they should be able to attained by the next meeting or two. You can also have a group commitment that can have many weeks as a completion goal.

7. Closing attunement and holding each other in prayer, light and love through the upcoming week.