Cornerstone Ministries is a church in Export, PA. It has over 4,000 attendees spanned over 3 weekend services and a Wednesday night service. They’ve decided to take church to a completely new level with many unique features that may just be found only at this church. One of these features is something called small groups. Small groups span from kindergarten to 12th grade, and are separated by gender (there are also small groups for adults and they are not separated by genders). On weekends the groups meet after each church sermon for 20 minutes, and on Wednesdays they meet for an hour.
Frankie Smith is the 41 year-old wife of Brian Smith and the mother of two boys, Jared and Riley Smith. As well as being a stay-at-home mother, Mrs. Frankie …show more content…
Frankie. I’ve been an attendee of Cornerstone Ministries since 4th grade, but I never felt a connection to anybody there until after Mrs. Frankie become our small group leader. She went out of her way to make sure that I, a shy wallflower, felt included. It’s hard to come into a group and make friends with people who are already friends with each other, even if the people are nice and you’ve spent a decent amount of time with them. Mrs. Frankie understood that and focused an amount of attention on me to get me to open up. That is what I think has helped me go from not talking unless asked a question to talking openly with …show more content…
She is only a text, email, or phone call away when I need her. I know that she’ll always listen, because she always has. Through my parents’ divorce, through a day where I could have just run away from home and not looked back, and then even through the less serious, sometimes trivial matters, she was there for me.
I asked her what her favorite part of being a small group leader is, and she replied, “Connecting with you guys, and just hearing your stories, you know? Being able to help you guys has also been pretty big. I also love that I get to take you girls with me everywhere I go, ‘cause you’re ‘my girls’.”
Unless something dramatic happens, Mrs. Frankie will be my small group leader until the end of the summer proceeding 12th grade. I’ll probably be off to college after that, but I’m sure that I’ll always have her to look to.
My last question was to ask her if she’ll continuing being a small group leader after we graduate, and she said, “I might, but I probably won’t. I was offered a job that helps coach the other small group leaders, but I turned it down because it would be too much on my plate. I might take that up when you girls leave. I just think that having a new group would be something a long time after your girls graduate, because I’d miss you girls too much if I became another group’s
Frankie Smith is the 41 year-old wife of Brian Smith and the mother of two boys, Jared and Riley Smith. As well as being a stay-at-home mother, Mrs. Frankie …show more content…
Frankie. I’ve been an attendee of Cornerstone Ministries since 4th grade, but I never felt a connection to anybody there until after Mrs. Frankie become our small group leader. She went out of her way to make sure that I, a shy wallflower, felt included. It’s hard to come into a group and make friends with people who are already friends with each other, even if the people are nice and you’ve spent a decent amount of time with them. Mrs. Frankie understood that and focused an amount of attention on me to get me to open up. That is what I think has helped me go from not talking unless asked a question to talking openly with …show more content…
She is only a text, email, or phone call away when I need her. I know that she’ll always listen, because she always has. Through my parents’ divorce, through a day where I could have just run away from home and not looked back, and then even through the less serious, sometimes trivial matters, she was there for me.
I asked her what her favorite part of being a small group leader is, and she replied, “Connecting with you guys, and just hearing your stories, you know? Being able to help you guys has also been pretty big. I also love that I get to take you girls with me everywhere I go, ‘cause you’re ‘my girls’.”
Unless something dramatic happens, Mrs. Frankie will be my small group leader until the end of the summer proceeding 12th grade. I’ll probably be off to college after that, but I’m sure that I’ll always have her to look to.
My last question was to ask her if she’ll continuing being a small group leader after we graduate, and she said, “I might, but I probably won’t. I was offered a job that helps coach the other small group leaders, but I turned it down because it would be too much on my plate. I might take that up when you girls leave. I just think that having a new group would be something a long time after your girls graduate, because I’d miss you girls too much if I became another group’s