Community Groups have four basic goals:
- Spiritual Growth. While corporate gathering is important, the small group setting is best for growth and creative community service projects.
- A Network of Care. Community Groups should be THE place of support for people going through hardship.
- Relational Development. Since you can only get so friendly at church, Community Groups are where real relationships are developed.
- Just Plain Fun. Community Groups are a place of refuge and fun.
All Community Groups are autonomous and choose their own studies. All prospective leaders of Community Groups must be vetted by C3 leaders. Community Groups may either be “open” which means they welcome new people; or “closed” due to the sensitivity of topics covered.
If you are interested in starting a new Group, call to set up a meeting with a pastor. If you qualify, then Julie Brown (jabnut@verizon.net)will publish your group (if “open”).
If you feel under-qualified to lead, facilitator training is available. If you aren’t interested inleading but just want to join one, see the Welcome Center.
This Sunday, in Week Two of “Stretched Too Thin” we’ll consider the discipline of narrowing the focus. Usually we stretch ourselves too thin because we think our needs won’t be met otherwise. So we work more hours, sign our kids up for more extra-curricular opportunities, buy more things, and somewhere along the line, God gets relegated to the back burner or forgotten altogether. So “narrowing the focus” starts with “seeking the Kingdom” And we’ll see what Jesus meant by putting that first.
I was at a huge music conference in Nashville a couple years ago and the radio station that brought me along was interviewing Rebecca St. James. She was beautiful, talented, and single. She said, “I can’t tell you how many times guys come up to me and say, “God told me to marry you.” And she’s like, “That’s funny, why hasn’t God told me that?”
Most of us HATE to WAIT. Especially when there are serious kinds of waiting, like the single person waiting for Mr. or Mrs. Right. Or landing that much needed job.