Leadership Tips & Training Half Time Celebration

To creatively inspire our members this session, we planned a "Half Time Celebration." We decided to celebrate at the midpoint of our 13-week session. We chose a football theme, which coincided with the time of year and the term half time. We decorated our room in a football party theme and gave Halfway to Goal awards to those who had reached the halfway point in their weight loss goal for the session. Everyone brought a First Place dish and we enjoyed a lunch together as we celebrated what God had done and re-committed to pressing on to the goal before us. This will give new life to those who are struggling and feeling like they have already failed with the session half over. It also will give added motivation to those who have been faithful to be faithful till the end. Enjoy!


Nancy Taylor is the First Place Leadership Training Director and joined the First Place staff in 1997. Nancy teaches leadership principles to First Place Leaders throughout the country and at Houston's First Baptist Church where she coordinates all the First Place groups. . Nancy also speaks at First Place workshops, rallies, retreats, and conferences, where she delights her audiences with humor and encourages them with boldness. She writes a monthly article, which includes helpful tips for leaders, for the First Place E-newsletter, and was a contributing writer to the Today is the First Day devotional book. Nancy is the resident First Place Bible Concordance because of her love for Scripture memory.