GROUPS AND CLASSES FOR EVERY AGE AND STAGE
February 2-April 6, 2025
You’re invited to Community Hour from 10:30-11:30 a.m. on Sundays beginning February 2. Community Hour will help you practice the way of Jesus and experience greater community while getting connected. We offer numerous learning opportunities small groups and and age-appropriate classes for kids and students from birth through age 18.
CLASSES/GROUPS FOR ADULTS
DEVELOPING & NURTURING YOUR KIDS' KEY LIFE SKILLS
February 2-March 2 in the Sustad Chapel
Facilitator: Dr. Joe Price
Learn how to develop your son or daughter’s key life skills: social/relationship building, emotion management, growth mindset and self-efficacy. Dr. Joe is going to spend time in Scripture and use his knowledge as an SDSU psychology professor to equip parents to help their kids of all ages (birth-18) grow in these ways.
WOMEN IN MINISTRY
February 2-March 2 in the Vista Room
Facilitators: Pastors John Martz and Brian Rhen
Uncover the biblical basis for the role of women in pastoral leadership and how to be a champion of this truth. As part of the Evangelical Covenant Church denomination, this is what makes us distinct. Regardless of your theological views and past church experience, this is a safe place to wrestle with what the Bible says about women in ministry.
LOVE MERCY DO JUSTICE "SUBVERSIVE WITNESS"
February 2-April 6 in the Triangle Room
Facilitators: Vicky Reier and Laura Rodriguez
In this book study focused on “Subversive Witness” by Dominique DuBois Gilliard, the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the ECC, you are invited to grapple with privilege, indifference, and systemic sin in new ways. Gilliard highlights several people in the Bible who understood this kingdom call, revealing the complex nature of privilege and Christians’ responsibility in stewarding it well. There is something for everyone in this book.
MEMOIRS: WRITING YOUR STORY
March 9-April 6 in the Vista Room
Facilitators: Ed Stehouwer and Gordon Van Zanten
Have you been burned by divorce, suffered the loss of a child, or survived combat? Where you the kid nobody played with, the college dropout, or the guy that got fired? Have you struggled with disability or addiction? How did God use that experience to shape you, or how did God help you overcome the scars? All of us have an important period of our lives or a life experience that would be
meaningful to our family and friends. Such a story, or series of stories, is known as a memoir. It’s not an autobiography, which encompasses your entire life; instead, memoir includes only this one important part or single life-changing event you experienced. Is God asking you to help somebody else by writing a memoir? You have a unique story to tell.
SAME PAGE PARENTING
March 9-April 6 in the Sustad Chapel
Facilitator: Jan Wright
Explore how to parent your kids – what they need based on their personalities, abilities, and how it compares to how you were parented. Jan Wright MS, CFCS, will help parents partner with God as they uncover who God has made their child to be and how He directs our parenting through Scripture. Jan has taught this curriculum in her previous work with Jefferson County and at other churches. For parents with kids ages birth-18.
CLASSES FOR KIDS
During Community Hour, we will have programming for kids of all ages while their parents are in their classes or small groups. Our nursery will be open for those under three years old and we will have a class for our preschool through 5th graders! We will be using the curriculum, the Biggest Story to go through the Bible all together.
Our goal for our kids during Community Hour is to build relationships with adults and kids in the class, to create fun time for kids to connect as their parents are, and to have a second hour of discipleship for our youngest congregants.
IMPORTANT LOGISTICS!! Kids should not be dropped off without a caregiver in the building. A caregiver must remain in the building during our Community Hour to maintain safety for their children. Children should be checked in for service programming, checked out during coffee hour, and checked back in for Community Hour at the iPads in the upstairs kids hallway.
CLASSES FOR STUDENTS
Community Hour for students includes all 6th-12th graders and will take place in the Youth Room!
Our goal for this space is for students to connect with one another and adult leaders, and to interpret and look closer at the scriptures. Rather than just hearing a teaching, students will be invited to contemplate, and articulate their own thoughts and feelings.
We need volunteers! If you’re interested in helping out with the Student Learning Hour, please reach out to JDrew.