Sunday, July 03, 2011

Small Groups => Big Impacts

Want to make new friends and grow your spiritual life at the same time? In a large church like ours, the best way is to join a group!

There are five kinds of groups at City Church: life study, life issues, life service, life interest, and life together. Whether a Bible study, a prayer group, a photography class, or serving in our food shelf ministry, all offer opportunity for making friends and connecting in to the life of the church. Being around other believers encourages us to grow in our lives in Christ.

We want to continue to make all of these opportunities for connection available, and we want provide even more opportunities than ever for individuals and families to connect in life together groups, or home groups, as they are sometimes called. For the fall semester, we are making life together groups even easier with suggested study guidelines from the Sunday's sermons.

If you have a heart to be part of this ministry team, we invite you to look into small group leadership. You can see our leader application form here. If you are interested in becoming a City Church small group leader, join us at our next leader training session, Sunday evening, July 10 from 6:45-9:15 PM for part 1 and again Monday evening at the same time for part 2. We will be offering the same training from 9 AM to 3 PM on Saturday, August 20.

Perhaps you would like to be part of a group of friends growing together in your spiritual life, but you don't have the time or inclination to lead a group....but you DO have a good-sized home. Not every small group leader has enough space, and your willingness to team up with a leader can provide a place to make a new group possible!

But maybe you aren't ready to be a leader or a host, and just want to be IN a small group! Fall semester small groups start in earnest the week of September 11. There will be about three dozen groups of various kinds to choose from. Stay tuned for more information!

If you would like more information about any of these items, please contact Pastor David Johnson at 952-6645.