Well, the wife, boy and dog are all home again and it is back to normal... sort of. I went to a siminar this weekend on leading a home fellowship group (aka home church) at our church. I don't feel lead to lead a group right now, I just wanted to learn a little more about the whole process so I could be more encouraging to our leader, the other memebers and less of a hinderance. There is a lot of counceling techniques involved apparently. From starting each meeting with the main point of the group - "to experience Christ together" to leading wondering members back to the point at hand and avoiding the "fix it" sessions a home fellowship group can turn into rather quickly. We went through how to pray for each other in the scripture and used Habakkuk 2:14 to actually do this for another person at the seminar.
The great thing is that there were only about 20 people there - 4 were pastors and there were another 4 normal ministring elders. Our church is beginning to see a change in the leadership which I think will make a huge change in the coming weeks.