Sidra Zimmerm Ministry Project Analysis

Sidra Zimmerman Ministry Project

 The People and the Situation As was first mentioned in my ministry group project proposal, the group I chose was my own small group. When the project first started, it consisted of roughly 10 men and women, most members of my Southern Baptist church who meet weekly to suss through the week’s sermon together. Interestingly enough, most of us had been raised in some semblance of a Christian home, though our experience within that “Christian” community varied. Some of us had testimonies of more stable lives, others of cultural Christian influences, and finally, those of us who had been in spiritual abusive situations at one point or another. As a whole, most of us had been hurt by the church at one time, and for many us, this small group was a way to possibly heal and reach back out in Christian community once more. We hadn’t been meeting for very long when this project was first started. Demographically speaking, the group was on the younger end. Stretching between the ages of …show more content…
Results: As much as I would love to report in this last part of the paper that our efforts were successful, I can only recount marginal growth within the group. Though the growth present was encouraging. Liz and I began to seek out one of the women who was particularly hard for me to relate it. Nonetheless, the more we invited her over dinner or attended events we so bravely put on, we discovered a woman who had a tough exterior, but a very soft inside. As Liz and I began to step into her life, she opened up more about past hurts and allowed us to counsel her through it. She’s still showing incredible growth too. She has very much embraced Jesus, but what’s more is that she feels included in church community, to the degree she has been giving back in the form of serving at Sunday morning worship and having the group over to her home occasionally. Indeed, she’s quite surprised me by her openness to being called out on her sins and stepping into