Coming Up - Educational Opportunities
Please consider joining a Sunday School class and growing your faith in a community of love and support. We have 6 Adult Sunday School options from which you may choose:
Chrysalis Sunday School Class
8:30 am in the Adult Classroom - facilitated by Wayne and Edie Gordon - Death & Resurrection, (Ray Vander Laan Faith Lesson series).
Good News Sunday School Class
10:00 am in the Adult Classroom - led by a team of facilitators. This class is following-up on the “Why” series with ongoing conversation on The Will of God.
Library Sunday School Class
10:00 am in the Library - led by Brad Hamilton – This class is studying, When You are a Christian, the Whole World is from Missouri.
God’s Gift Sunday School Class
10:00 in the LOFT (left side) of the Family Life Center - led by a team of facilitators. This class is studying, “Why Jesus?”
Young Adult Sunday School Class
10:00 in the LOFT (right side) of the Family Life Center, led by Michelle Matthews.
Beginning February 26 – Early Bird Class – Sunday mornings, 8:00 a.m. in the Library. Led by Candice Bennett, this class will study "Gospelled Lives" by John Indermark.
Other Opportunities
· Women’s study on 1st & 2nd Peter using the Bible as reference (8 wks) – led by Suzanne McIvor
· Why? Making Sense of God’s Word being conducted in conjunction with upcoming sermon series (4 wks) – led by Pastor Fran and Jackie Stone
· Christian Wisdom of the Jedi Masters - Based on the premise that aspiring disciples of Jesus need mentoring much the same as young Jedi warriors (10 wks) – led by Chris Haws
Sunday School - Children
Sunday School will be available during the 8:30 and 9:45 Services. Elementary children will be grouped by grade level. Preschool children, ages three (potty trained) through five, will be grouped accordingly. Curriculum - Rock Solid – Building a Heart of Faith
Sunday School -Youth
Sunday School for youth is offered at the 9:45 and 11:15 Sunday School hours. At the 9:45 hour, Middle School and Senior High meet separately in their respective youth rooms. At the 11:15 hour, all youth grades 6-12 meet together in the Senior High room. Both Sunday School hours use the curriculum Bible Lessons for Youth, which covers the entire Bible in six years. It is based on the International Lessons Series and uses a Bible-to-life approach. It also uses activities to engage student interest and focuses on how Scripture relates to their lives.
Sunday Evening
6-7:30 pm - DISCIPLE I (32 wks) - Begins September 18 - led by Mike Jensen. DISCIPLE affirms that the canon was formed as it is in order for God to speak to us. DISCIPLE I gives equal time to both the Old and New Testament, emphasizing the wholeness of the Bible as the revelation of God. DISCIPLE aims at transformation, not just information, and calls on persons to submit themselves to examination by Scripture, to put themselves under the power of God’s Word, and to be changed by God’s Word. DISCIPLE invites persons to bring their experiences and struggles to the Scripture.
Tuesday Morning
9:15-10:30am – Loving Your Military Man: (9 wks) – led by Katrina Kepran. Military families like to be prepared-they plan, strategize, organize. But whether they’re active, National Guard, or Reserve, when deployment comes, all the planning in the world can still fail when it comes to their hearts. This study is an excellent starting point fro military wives to get connected with others in the military community who share this common thread. They can learn to lean on God and come out of it confident in the knowledge that God is with them, loves them, and will not abandon them.
Wednesday Mid-Weeks
· 6:30-8:00 pm - Genesis from Scratch (8 wks) – Begins September 21 – led by Lisa Geiger. Replete with some of the most familiar and beloved stories from the Bible (Adam and Eve, Noah and the Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, and Abraham and Isaac), Genesis also tells the story of God’s creation of the universe. It is about beginnings—and thus is the perfect book to begin the expanded Bible from Scratch series.
· 6:30-8:00 pm (Women’s Group) - Goodbye Murphy's Law: Whatever Can Go Wrong, God Can Make Right (10 wks) – Begins September 21 – led by Suzanne McIvor. “We live in a world where people tend to expect the worst. But God has an amazing plan for each of us, and this plan is not some elusive, mystical riddle we cannot decipher. We can move past dry spells and give up dread and fear. We can shape a vision for our life that is large and special and meaningful.” In this inspiring and useful book, Judy Pace Christie helps us to seek and discover God’s will in our lives through listening, discernment, prayer, and perseverance.