Faith Formation
We gather as a community on Sunday mornings at 8:45am with fellowship and song. We then move into suggested age groups for learning with our peers.
January 2nd - on break
January 9th - resume peer group learning
January 16th - break for Martin Luther King Jr weekend
January 23rd - April 3rd - peer group learning
April 10th & 17th - break for Holy Week & Easter
April 24th - May 22nd - peer group learning
May 29th - August - on break for the summer
Preschool
Our children infants through Kindergartners gather with a family member and a facilitator in the Preschool Play Room to participate in simple Bible lessons with time for play and opportunities for families to connect on how to raise children in faith.
Young Youth
First through 5th grade students gather in a Preschool Classroom with a facilitator and activate their faith by opening their Bibles together, get moving and engaged in the story and finish with a closing activity and prayer
Youth
6th through High School graduates have the opportunity to meet in the Modular and dig deep into their faith and explore topics of social justice, how to live a life of faith, and so much more. Each day is a different topic explored through the lens of faith.
Adults:
Confirmed youth and beyond are invited to learn together in community around various topics of interest in short term sessions.
Recent topics included
Marking Time - A walk through the Gospel of Mark
Beatitude Attitude - Exploration of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount
Finding Rest
How did that get in there?
Nurturing Disciples in Home & Congregation
Fellow adults, parents, & mentors will explore scripture and resources to help us understand the role that each of us play in effectively passing on faith from generation to generation. We will use the book Frogs without Legs Can't Hear by David W Anderson and Paul Hill as a starting point as we explore what faith is and how the home and church congregation can partner. "Working through the 5 Principles, 4 Key Faith practices, and 3 Characteristics, the Holy Spirit creates passionate and faithful evangelists and disciples" (p12). The goal of our time through January and February is to reflect together and support each other as parents, mentors, and members of a church so that we can dig deep, share stories, and learn strategies to connect our faith with others.
Led by Amy Phillips
The BEMA Podcast with Marty Solomon
This class will listen each week to a podcast by Marty Solomon that will be an ongoing walk through the bible and then discuss what we have heard in the podcast. In an engaging and thoughtful way, Marty walks us through the story of God and his people (that’s us!), along with the invitation to partner with God in following His Kingdom (The Kingdom of Shalom) versus following the world’s kingdom (The Kingdom of Empire). We miss much of the richness of the biblical text since we do not understand the original Hebrew and Greek and the cultures of the ancient Eastern world. Marty puts all of that in historical context and then encourages us to wrestle with the hard questions raised by what we read in the bible. Most of all, Marty wants us to experience transformation in our lives to become more authentic disciples of Jesus and understand that God desires most of all that we know Him.
Led by Tim Anderson.