Connect Group Host Reminders
For New Groups, Complete the Onboarding Process
Schedule Your Initial Meeting with Your Coach
Set Up Your Weekly Meetings as Planning Center Events on Your Group’s Page to Allow You to Take Attendance
Use the Menu to Plan Your Content Schedule for the Semester
Complete Your Connect Group Evaluation/Goal Form
Begin to Plan Your Community Night and Outward Opportunity for the Semester
Continue Your Plans, or Begin to Challenge Your Group Regarding Project 42
Continue to Check Your Email and Planning Center Group Page THROUGHOUT THE SEMESTER to see if new members are requesting to join
Connect Groups & Care
First Response: As the church grows and groups become more full, so too do the care needs within the congregation of people who call Quest home. To make that manageable and scalable, Connect Groups are also being viewed as the first responders for care needs. What this means isn’t anything beyond what most groups do naturally. For example, if someone needs prayer, members of the group are the first to be there to pray. If someone needs some help with grass or yardwork due to age or injury, the group jumps in to help. If someone needs help getting to a doctor’s appointment or is in the hospital for a minor health concern, their group is their first line of support.
Escalating Care Needs: The Care Team is meant to be a support to your group as you work with the care needs that may arise. It is not the first place to send someone with a care need. If a care need becomes something beyond your group’s ability or comfort to meet, you can escalate the need by submitting a Care Card to the Care Team. You can access to this group the Connect Group Host Page.
Coordinate Care: The responsibility of care shouldn’t fall solely on you as the host. Instead, the group should be helping carry that responsibility. You may have to help coordinate, but it is a team effort.
2026 Connect Group Semester Calendar
Fall Semester
(10 Weeks)
Begins Sunday, September 13th
Ends Thursday, November 19th
Project 42 is a Connect Group ministry-wide initiative to multiply. We’ve talked about the Biblical principles and importance of multiplication over the past year, and we’ve seen the need for it as God continues to bring people into our family at Quest, and this is our opportunity to keep up with what God is doing.
At the start of 2026, we had a total of 21 Connect Groups. Over the next two years, the goal is to have 42 groups total as we prepare for the rain that God is bringing to Quest here and Garner, and eventually as we look towards Smithfield.
New Group Onboarding
Step 1: Review and Sign Our
Statement of Faith
To make sure our hosts are in alignment with the core beliefs of the church.
Step 2: Review the FAQ and
Sign Off
Review the most frequently asked questions we receive, and our responses, to see if you can speak with the same voice as Quest.
Step 3: Review Host Info & Checklist Document
Review the duties, expectations, and responsibilities of Connect Group Hosts and check off what you need to do to prepare for the semester.
Guides & Tutorials
If there is a guide or tutorial you need that we don’t already have, please let your coach know.