Adjourning

I have never been apart of a group that had a formal adjourning process. I have worked on projects with groups and we have debriefed after one project before moving on to the next project. But these groups were not moving to a place where we are not working together anymore. I have always left groups based off of my own merit. It has been hard to make the decision to leave at times but I find that I have to do what’s best for me. Choosing to leave my student ministries group at church was probably the hardest one to leave. I loved working with the high school and middle schoolers. It was fun because I spend most of my days with little children. I left the group because it was taking me away from actually being in church. I spent so much time with the kids that I never got the chance to go into the church and receive a word. Ministry became another job. I loved it but needed to take care of myself. I needed to be in church and could not find the balance between ministry and personal time. 

I think adjourning from groups is important. When I left the student ministries group at church I did so without much of a fuss. Once we broke for the summer vacation, I just never returned. I do not think it will be hard to adjourn from my colleagues in my masters program. Honestly it it hard to build relationships this way. While I love reading my colleagues posts and respect their opinions on the things I post, I don’t think I will miss it once I no longer have to log onto the classroom assignments. 

Adjourning allows groups to see what they have done well and what they can do in the future to better themselves. This is something that I do while debriefing with my student ministries group. We always allowed these meetings to help make us better.