c. Groups

SITE GROUP

SMALL GROUPS

SMALL GROUP HIGHLIGHTS

LEADERS HIGHLIGHTS FROM SMALL GROUPS

1. Belt Women of Worship (WOW) Gwendolyn King and Ruby Hicks Group is growing and meets at local eateries to celebrate birthdays.

2. Belt Belt Connectors Kenneth and Naticka Robinson Hosted three trips. Had a successful game night in June to help people get connected.

3. Elm Women’s Group Charlene Funderburg and Melissa Hendrix Group is growing and has celebrations with food and fun to celebrate group members.

4. CRE Encore Sunday Small Group Doreen Gonzalez Fellowshipped with women of the same age group enables the attendees the opportunities to share similar experiences. They nd themselves witnessing to one another.

5. CRE Dreamchasers Jerrel Ledbetter and Ashlee Murphy

6. CRE You Are Not Alone Cancer Support Group Donnie Smith and Ronald Alison Completed RESET Sunday; Looking for a new candidate to co-facilitate; increased number of activities from last year. Provided support to member while going through cancer treatment. The celebration is the treatment was successful.

7. CRE Thursday Aspire Small Group Tonya Johnson Members took a spiritual gifts test; gifts were identi ed and results of the test were noted and discussed during several group meetings; group held prayer call for sick group member and child; celebrated Valentine’s Day, Easter, and Birthdays together; Attended member’s dance recital; hosted farewell dinner for member who moved out of state; participated in Aspire Life Stage Sunday.

8. CRE Before You Jump the Broom .............. Robert and Vicki Moss

9. CRE Foundations Roy and Betty Massenburg

10. CRE Inner Peace Denise Pryor and Frank Reynolds

11. CRE Prime Time Living Life Together Ellen C. Williams and Camela James Before You Jump the Broom couples have shared their experiences with other couples and the awareness of the ministry has expanded. The group was very interested in the lessons developed based on Pastor Watson’s 40 Day Challenge. There was so much to do that they asked ‘what’s next?’. Started a new Foundations II that is based on Pastor’s book - Maximize your Edge. Have Christmas dinner celebration every year. If anyone in the group loses a loved one, we all try to attend the funeral and show support. Group meets 1st and 3rd Saturdays to share “Jesus-Centered Small Group Bible Studies that focus on discovering Jesus in the Old and New Testaments. Studies are very enlightening and members feel free and comfortable in sharing, lots of fun, laughs and tears celebrating Jesus.

12. CRE Genealogy Research Davis Roberts One member shared information at his family reunion about his genealogical research. This group was a huge success!

13. CRE Re ners Ministry Saundra Smith and Willa Taylor

Re ners Anniversary, Donation to Emergency Assistance, Helped with Thanksgiving Baskets and Re ners Bazaar. 14. CRE Prime Time Cecelia Owens Made over 40 blankets for the homeless.

Campus Group Type Group Name

1. Belt A nity/Share Men’s Group Mon @Belt 2. Belt A nity/Share Women of Worship Group at Belt 3. Belt Fine Arts Fine Arts Choir @Belt

Leaders

Je rey Robinson Gwendolyn King and Ruby Hicks Howard Boisseau

Members

21 25 10

4. Belt Fine Arts Joy Choir 5. Belt Hospitality Caring Hearts Nurses @Belt 6. Belt Hospitality Hospitality Greeters @Belt 7. Belt Hospitality Rose’s Table 8. Belt Hospitality Security Team @Belt Howard Boisseau Shaun Rivers Laurie Burton Joyce Smith Linwood Byrd

9. Belt Hospitality Ushers Group @Belt

Thomas Perry 10. Belt Life Stage Belt Middle School Mentoring Program Boys Bound for Success Raymond Rooks 11. Belt Life Stage Belt Middle School Mentoring Program Girls - God’s Nia Carla Pollard 10 1 20 12 1 17 31 17

12. Belt Support/Barnabas Simply Pray Study Group @Belt 13. CRE A nity/Share 2017 Events Assistance 14. CRE A nity/Share 2017 Foundations Small Group 15. CRE A nity/Share 2017 Genealogy Group 16. CRE A nity/Share 2017 Inner Peace Small Group 17. CRE A nity/Share 2017 Married Couples Sunday Small Group-11:00 18. CRE A nity/Share 2017 Married Couples Sunday Small Group-11:00 19. CRE A nity/Share 2017 Men Sunday Small Group (CRE) 20. CRE A nity/Share 2017 Singles Sunday Small Group 21. CRE A nity/Share 2017 Small Groups Resource Team 22. CRE A nity/Share 2017 SPBC Toastmasters 23. CRE A nity/Share 2017 Women’s Sunday Small Group – CRE 24. CRE A nity/Share Fit 2 Serve Group 25. CRE A nity/Share Mixed Bowling League 26. CRE A nity/Share Nia Inc AIDS Awareness and Prevention 27. CRE A nity/Share The Glory of the Phenomenal Woman 28. CRE Fine Arts 2017 Adult Mass Choir/Celebration Choir Stephanie Hayes Bernadette Spriggs Roy and Betty Massenburg Davis Roberts Denise Pryor and Frank Reynolds Timothy and Teneka Wortham Robert and Vicki Moss David Lyles and Paul Nichols Ross McInnis Steven Taylor and Leah Johnson Patrice Banks Marva J. Williams 3 5 7 9 19 17 35 16 6 10 13 24

Renada Lewis 21

Livingston Rush 7

Lindsay Bryant

6 Brenda Campbell-Robinson and Torchy McNeil 22 Amanda Montague 1

29. CRE Fine Arts 2017 Ayinde 2 Youth Liturgical Dance 30. CRE Fine Arts 2017 Ayinde Liturgical Dance 31. CRE Fine Arts 2017 Da Hype-Youth Choir 32. CRE Fine Arts 2017 Joy Choir 33. CRE Fine Arts 2017 Sarah’s Sisters Dance Julinda Lewis Julinda Lewis Joseph Clarke Michelle Henderson Julinda Lewis 16 13 60 3 1

34. CRE Fine Arts 2017 Women’s Choir Sherri Robinson 1

35. CRE Fine Arts Drama Ministry #1 36. CRE Hospitality 2017 First Impressions 37. CRE Hospitality 2017 R.A.I.N. Mime 38. CRE Hospitality 2017 Shepherd’s Sta Team A – Agape 39. CRE Hospitality 2017 Shepherd’s Sta Team Victorious 40. CRE Hospitality 2017 Ushers 41. CRE Hospitality 2017 Wedding Services 42. CRE Hospitality Bereavement Services 43. CRE Hospitality Counting Team @Creighton 44. CRE Hospitality EA Supplemental Funding Group 45. CRE Hospitality Hospitality Greeters 46. CRE Hospitality New Member Experience 47. CRE Hospitality Parking Team @Creighton 48. CRE Hospitality Security Team @CRE 49. CRE Hospitality Ushers – ISSA 50. CRE Hospitality Ushers - New Auxiliary 51. CRE Hospitality Ushers – Youth LaTiscia Fowlkes Thelma Miller and Priscilla Rose Vernita Williams Arlie Cobb Evelyn Porter Paula Williams and Lynwood Gray Maxine Thompson Linda Wyatt Cassandra Simmons Ronald Miller Shana McDaniel and Garrett Sawyer Eloise Burke Herbert Alston Linwood Byrd Carolyn Morris and Beverly Bobbitt Toni Orage and Mary Simmons Toni Orage 11 37 2 25 16 2 4 1 64 10 13 12 7 1 63 70 40

52. CRE Hospitality Ushers Small Group- Men 53. CRE Hospitality Welcome Center 54. CRE Leaders Diaconate Agape Team #8 55. CRE Leaders Diaconate Creighton Rd Team #10 56. CRE Leaders Diaconate Faith Walkers Team #4 57. CRE Leaders Diaconate Grace Team #6 58. CRE Leaders Diaconate Model Team #7 59. CRE Leaders Diaconate Peacemakers Team #5 60. CRE Leaders Diaconate Serving at His Feet Team #9 61. CRE Leaders Diaconate Transformers Team #2 Earl Brown Tosha Robinson and Cheryl Vaughan Benjamin Davis Sterling Stokes Teresa Mason Earl Jackson Lindsay Bryant Theresa Hines Deborah Garner Keith Smith 50 22 7 4 7 4 8 7 7 8

62. CRE Leaders Diaconate Wisdom Warriors Team #1 Sterling Stokes 6

63. CRE Life Stage 2017 Aspire Life Stage Small Group LaTonya Johnson

31 64. CRE Life Stage 2017 Dreamchasers and Aspire Sunday Small Group J. Ledbetter 18 65. CRE Life Stage 2017 Dreamchasers Co-Ed Small Group-Wednesdays Christina Ingram, Ashlee Murphy and J. Ledbetter 15 66. CRE Life Stage 2017 Dreamchasers Life Stage (Young Adults, Ages 20-29) Christina Ingram, Ashlee Murphy and J. Ledbetter 8 67. CRE Life Stage 2017 Encore Life Stage (Ages 50-59) Sherl Moses and Denise Turner 71 68. CRE Life Stage 2017 Encore Sunday Small Group-11am Doreen Gonzalez 24 69. CRE Life Stage 2017 Encore Weekday Small Group Patrick Wright and Patricia Wilson 23 70. CRE Life Stage 2017 Fusion Co-Ed Small Group-Tuesdays Justine Jordan 12 71. CRE Life Stage 2017 Fusion Sunday Small Group-11am Justine Jordan 20 72. CRE Life Stage 2017 Prime Time Life Stage (Ages 60-69) Cecelia Owens 6 73. CRE Life Stage 2017 Prime Time Living Life Together Ellen Williams and Camela James 9 74. CRE Life Stage 2017 Prime Time Sunday Small Group Marva J. Williams 18 75. CRE Life Stage 2017 SMB Middle and High School Sundays @11am Group Marva J. Williams 37 76. CRE Life Stage 2017 SMB Middle and High School Sundays @9am Group Curtis Ballard, Jr. 26 77. CRE Life Stage Aspire Sunday Small Group-11am Angela Morlet 11 78. CRE Life Stage Daughters of the King Martina Jones-Smith 49 79. CRE Life Stage Dreamchasers Sunday Small Group J. Ledbetter 5 80. CRE Life Stage Encore Sunday Small Group-9am Patricia A Wilson 5 81. CRE Life Stage Girl Scouts of Commonwealth Council Charisse Matthews 8

82. CRE Life Stage 83. CRE Life Stage 84. CRE Life Stage 85. CRE Life Stage 86. CRE Life Stage 87. CRE Life Stage 88. CRE Life Stage 89. CRE Life Stage 90. CRE Outreach 91. CRE Outreach 92. CRE Outreach 93. CRE Outreach 94. CRE Outreach 95. CRE Outreach Kisura High School Girls Mentoring Group

Alethia Watford Lions Of Judah High School Boys Mentoring Group Aaron McKoy 1 5

Married Couples Sunday Small Group - CRE 11:00 Robert and Vicki Moss Prime Time Life Stage Events Planning Team Ellen Williams 24 7

Re ners 2nd Sat Gathering Re ners Life Stage Leadership Willa Taylor and Saundra Smith 190 Willa Taylor and Saundra Smith 5

Singles Sunday Small Group Sons of the King Ross McInnis Gregory Jones 14 25

Back to School Distribution Greta Randolph 15

Caring Hearts Nurses at Creighton Cradle to Prison Pipeline Exodus Prison Group Shaun Rivers

20 Linda Austin and Ashley Kenneth 8 Kempis Brown 12

Fish N Loaves Homeless Outreach Initiatives Shirley Peoples Jeanetta Lee 1 11

96. CRE Outreach Maximum Health Week

97. CRE Outreach Operation Harvest – Thanksgiving

98. CRE Outreach 99. CRE Outreach 100. CRE Study 101. CRE Study

Pastor and First Lady Outreach Initiatives Restorative Justice and Reentry 2017 Male Chorus Small Group 2017 SPCF Scrip Program 102. CRE Support/Barnabas Barnabas Admin Team 103. CRE Support/Barnabas 2017 Shepherd Sta Terri Page Greta Randolph Nicole Deveaux Antionette Irving Zeb Miles Ronald Miller Terri Goode Michelle Townsend 1 50 1 2 23 26 5 1

104. CRE Support/Barnabas 2017 Simply Pray Study Group at Cre Patricia Burch

11 105. CRE Support/Barnabas 2017 The 5 Love Languages for Married Couples Group Yvette Jones 1 106. CRE Support/Barnabas 2017 The 5 Love Languages for Married Couples Group Langston and Sandra Brown 1 107. CRE Support/Barnabas 2017 Winning Women Fitness Tianiece Boswell 7 108. CRE Support/Barnabas Conversations with Women Stephanie Brown 17 109. CRE Support/Barnabas Emergency Assistance Admin Team Annie Kendrick 5 110. CRE Support/Barnabas Emergency Resource Team Vanessa Johnson 6 111. CRE Support/Barnabas Encouragement Facilitators Group Ronnie Debnam 8 112. CRE Support/Barnabas FAST (Fighters, Advocates-Survivors Team) Michelle Henderson 1 113. CRE Support/Barnabas Financial Care Team Patricia Waller 7 114. CRE Support/Barnabas Free Indeed Addiction Support Group Vanessa Johnson 2 115. CRE Support/Barnabas Life Skills Counseling Team Lisa Brown 10 116. CRE Support/Barnabas M2M - Art of Marriage Howard and Linnie Brown 6 117. CRE Support/Barnabas M2M - Engaged/Newlywed at CRE Yvette Jones 10 118. CRE Support/Barnabas M2M - Enrichment Group at CRE Lisa Klutz 2 119. CRE Support/Barnabas Married Couples Group--Love, Peace, and Joy Langston and Sandra Brown 12 120. CRE Support/Barnabas STEPHEN MINISTRY - One System of Care Leigh Battle 15

123. CRE Support/Barnabas You Are Not Alone: Cancer Survivor Group Donnie Smith 5

124. Elm A nity/Share 2017 Women’s Group Tue at Elm

Rhonda Thompson-Gatling 125. Elm A nity/Share God Chasers - Elm Singles Small Group Ferebee Hayes 126. Elm A nity/Share God Chasers Sunday Small Group-Elm Brenda Spratley

127. Elm A nity/Share Men’s Bible Study 128. Elm A nity/Share Men’s Group at Elm Larry Edmonds Ricky Curry 20 9 8 17 24

129. Elm A nity/Share Women In The Word 130. Elm A nity/Share Women’s Sunday Small Group-Elm Valerie Hayes

18 Charlene Funderburg and Melissa Hendrix 17

131. Elm Hospitality 2017 Combined Ushers Ministry – Elm 132. Elm Hospitality 2017 Hospitality Greeters at Elm Siilleya Johnson Shaun Wade 10 5

133. Elm Hospitality 2017 Men’s Ushers Ministry – Elm 134. Elm Hospitality 2017 Women’s Ushers Ministry – Elm Siilleya Johnson Siilleya Johnson 6 5

135. Elm Hospitality 2017 Youth Ushers Ministry – Elm 136. Elm Hospitality Fine Arts Choir at Elm Mateo Stanberry Jamie Duncan 4 1

137. Elm Hospitality Security Team at Elm 138. Elm Hospitality Ushers Group at Elm 139. Elm Leaders Diaconate Elm-Ambassadors for Christ Ricky Curry Siilleya Johnson Lauren Fortune 3 18 6

140. Elm Outreach

Food Pantry at Elm 141. Elm Support/Barnabas 2017 Overcoming Hardship Elm 142. Elm Support/Barnabas M2M - Couples Group at ELM 143. Elm Support/Barnabas Simply Pray Study Group at Elm Mary Arlette Dandridge Linwood Eberhardt Jason and Constance Hollemon Shirl Love 2 19 2 12

Total 2,199

SPBC HIDDEN FIGURES

Meet Some Of Our Hidden Figures

CRE GROUPS - Rev. Alfreda Page-Garner is one of the Hidden Figures at Creighton. She serves as the Campus Director for small groups. She registers all groups, coordinates to get their rooms reserved, creates iers, requests that the iers are printed, checks in with small group leaders, and makes sure everything is in order.

CRE GROUPS - Ellen Williams, Justine Jordan, and Valerie Hayes facilitates our Small Group Leader Training. The training is a lot and they take a tremendous load o of me. I am so grateful for their willingness to lead.

BELT GROUPS - Vanessa Evans is one of the Hidden Figures at Belt. Whatever I ask her to do, she does. She coordinated life stage summer, she also serves as the Campus Director, registering groups, coordinating with Ms. Renita to get room reservations, checks on leaders, helps people start new groups, recruits leaders, serves as hospitality. She is a JEWEL

BELT CULINARY - Min. Joyce Smith is a super jewel. She ensures that food is available for every event that is needed. She is exible, also leading a Sunday Small group, as well as Rose’s Table. She is reliable and kind. She also serves as a mentor to others and is always able to attract the most people in any group she leads. She is a joy!!!

ELM CULINARY - Arlette Dandridge has been extremely reliable in ensuring that the food requested is served for our groups and events. She maintains a positive energy and warmly welcomes everyone. I can rely on her to provide hospitality and warmth.

CRE EVENTS - Christina Moses has been extremely reliable in doing anything that is needed re: events. She has changed her personal schedule to accommodate events, she has subbed as a lead in my absence. She communicates extremely well, and helps to catch things, so I don’t have to address everything.

CRE EVENTS - Maxine Thompson has been my go to for administration of events. She works with leaders to ensure they have everything that they need. She has stepped up and helped tremendously with the Bereavement Team, as well as Weddings, and various events at both Creighton and Elm. I thank GOD for Maxine. CRE EVENTS - Bernadette Spriggs. She organized Homecoming and oversaw all of the numerous meetings. PERIOD!!!!

CRE WORSHIP - Shana Daniel & Garret Sawyer They are the co-leaders of the Greeters. They are responsive, well organized, and I thank God for them!

CRE WORSHIP - Paula Williams leads the Ushers. I can rely on her for administration and reliability. She is a gem.

CRE WORSHIP - Linda Wyatt oversees our Bereavement Team. She has had to work in coordinating ushers and greeters to make sure that funerals and memorial services go o without a hitch. She is super reliable and I thank God for her.

HIDDEN FIGURES - Small Group Leaders!!! They are faithful, committed, and I appreciate them.

LaDonne C. Lankster