Community Groups have four basic goals:

1. Spiritual Growth. While corporate gathering is important, the small group setting is best for growth and creative community service projects.
2. A Network of Care. Community Groups should be THE place of support for people going through hardship.
3. Relational Development. Since you can only get so friendly at church, Community Groups are where real relationships are developed.
4. 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.

So the discipline is to resist the A.D.D. smorgasbord approach to life and work towards simplicity. It’s natural to get sucked into complexity. And this gravitational pull is usually subtle and almost never intentional. Simplicity means proactively and constantlyguarding against the pull of complexity, and getting tenacious about simply living simply. We can either do one or a few things very well, or we can do it all poorly or at best, in mediocrity.

There is soooooo much more to this, so please join us this Sunday morning at either of two services, 9:15 or 11:00.

Missed last week? Catch “Stretched To Thin” Part 1 at http://c3tvchannel.com Click Latest Messages.

Find us: http://calvarycommunitychurch.com

It seems like almost everyone I talk to these days isstretched. Busy with work, tough relationships, family responsibilities, and financial issues. And sometimes you can see the toll it takes on people; you can see it in their eyes. Nonstop busyness comes at a cost that none of us can afford: stress, premature aging, anxiety and depression.

This is why, from the very beginning, God built restinto the design for human life. God even commandsus to rest for our own good.

So we’re going to take a little break from our study through Acts for a four-part series called Stretched Too Thin. We’ll see how much the Bible has to say about this and how we can alleviate all the negative affects of the hurried harried life, and how to find balance so that we can be freed and released to do the most important things in life. Don’t miss out, Sunday mornings, 9:15 and 11:00.

Find us: http://calvarycommunitychurch.com

And catch “Available Single Women” athttp://c3tvchannel.com Click “Latest Messages.”

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