Its now the third month of 2012 and this is my first post for this year. Well, 2011 has been an interesting year. Last December I went home to distribute my survey questionnaire at the churches in North Minahasa Conference, Manado.
My study is focused on finding the correlation between leadership behaviors of small group leaders towards the effectivity and success of the small group ministry program in the North Minahasa Conference. In order to achieve that, I have designed a questionnaire to measure leadership behaviors of small group leaders and also to measure the perception of small group effectiveness.
I spent one month in Manado in which the first week was used to distribute the questionnaire to the selected churches which represents the NMC. I divided the population into three groups: the Manado area, the North Minahasa area and the Bitung city area. This method of sampling is called purposive sampling.
While the intent is to measure the total population of North Minahasa Conference, the population tested were selected from churches that had active small group ministry during the last four years. According to literature, this is a valid sampling method, although it may introduce certain biases, which I try hard to avoid :)
I hope to finish everything soon. So wake up, get up, and finish up!! :)