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Adult Community Groups and Classes...
SUMC offers many options during the week for adults
to gather for study, fellowship and spiritual growth.
How Do I Get Connected?
Step 1: Pre-register for the Starting Point class that meets Sunday mornings at 9:30am in the Town Hall. This four week class is offered for anyone that wants to know more about SUMC. The class addresses the history, mission, purpose and future of SUMC.
This is a prerequisite for membership.
Step 2: The next step is to choose a class from the list below that interests you. You can choose a new class and register quickly and easily right here online. (just click on the class name below) Or you can join an ongoing group study that meets regularly to check it out. Books (if needed) will be your responsibilty to purchase. Lifeway, Amazon.com, and Christianbook.com are three online sources for you to use. (Campus Map)
Step 3: Make a commitment to grow your priority as God strengthens and equips you to live out your faith each day!
 Sunday Morning Classes -
Ongoing groups that meet regularly for fellowship and study
Group Studies - Fall classes are returning!! Check out the classes below.
Open groups and new studies listed here
Sunday Class Offerings Campus Map
8:00am Classes
Sunday Morning Men's Bible Study
Join this group of men as they pursue spiritual growth through study in God's Word! This group is currently studying the Book of Acts. This men's Bible study tries to cover one chapter each week.
Facilitator: Joe Laboon
Time: Sunday 8:00am-9:00am
Location: The Library
This is an ongoing group that meets weekly. Registration is not a requirement for attending. VISIT ANYTIME!!
9:30am Classes
Starting Point
Starting Point is a 4 week class that meets Sunday mornings at 9:30am. This informational class discusses the history, mission, purpose and future of SUMC. This class is a pre-requisite for membership.
Facilitators: Mike/Jodi Gill; Bev Manson; Ashley Gillihan
Time: Sunday mornings 9:30am - 10:45am
Location: The Town Hall
Contact: Bev Manson, Newcomer Coordinator
Breakfast and A Movie
This class enjoys a light breakfast with study and discussion of the latest video curriculum.
This group just started a five-week study by Ray Vander Laan called "Fire on the Mountain." When the Israelists left Egypt, they were finally free. Free from persectuion, free from oppression, and free to worship their own God. But with that freedom comes a new challenge - learning how to live together the way God intends. In this ninth volume of Faith Lessons, discover how God teaches the Israelites what it means to be a part of a community that loves him and lessons we can begin to live out in our lives.
Facilitator: Erik Carter
Time: Sunday 9:30-10:45am
Location: The Arts Center
This is an ongoing group that meets weekly. Registration is not a requirement for attending. VISIT ANYTIME!!
The Bridge, Connecting with Christ
The goal of this class is to not only create an "aha!" on Sunday mornings, but more importantly to create disciples of Jesus on Monday. The class uses any and every method available to accomplish this goal, including lecture, small group discussion, role play, video training, roundtable discussions, workshops, field trips, guest speakers, etc.
Facilitators: Greg and Donna Martin
Time: Sunday 9:30 am
Location: The Rec Center
This is an ongoing group that meets weekly. Registration is not a requirement for attending. VISIT ANYTIME!!
Prayer & Fellowship Class
This group enjoys discovering God's truth through Bible study and lively discussion. Study, laugh, pray and just plain enjoy life together.
Facilitators: Leroy and Linda Toliver
Time: Sunday 9:30 am
Location:The Library
This is an ongoing group that meets weekly. Registration is not a requirement for attending.
VISIT ANYTIME!!
This class enjoys growing our faith together through Bible Study discussions, being there for one another, and serving our community together.
Facilitators: Melanie Peterson & others
Time: Sunday 9:30 am
Location: The Lodge
This is an ongoing group that meets weekly. Registration is not a requirement for attending.
VISIT ANYTIME!!
The GoodLife Study (20s and 30s group)
Faith Lessons by Ray Vander Laan- starting August 15th they will be taking a look at the Life and Ministry of the Messiah which covers the birth, life and ministry of Jesus. Following that, they will be studying the death and resurrection of Jesus. The study will last around 12 weeks.
Come build a community of friends with other young adults. We're more than a Sunday morning class, we enjoy social gatherings and service projects in the community.
Facilitator: Christina Reale
Time: Sunday 9:30 am
Location: The Theater
This is an ongoing group that meets weekly. Registration is not a requirement for attending.
VISIT ANYTIME!!
11:00am Classes
Second Sermon
Sermon-based discussion group...
Facilitator: Sam Garrett and others
Time: Sunday at 11:00am
Location: The Rec Center
This is an ongoing group that meets weekly. Registration is not a requirement for attending.
VISIT ANYTIME!!
Screamfree Parenting - Class is full!!
We don't like to watch our children make mistakes and we don't like having to take the time and energy to enforce the consequences. Instead, we scream, or we get anxious, or we stress out. We may threaten, negotiate, and plead. We hope it works-meaning we hope our screaming or our anxiety forces them to behave the way we need them to. When it doesn't? We scream or get more anxious...and then our screaming becomes the consequence itself. This isn't working and everyone knows it, but what else can you do? In Screamfree Parenting, you learn to let go of the need to be the perfect parent with perfect techniques raising perfect kids.
Facilitator: Jon Kaplan
Time: Sunday at 11am
Location: Theater
Class for women remains open - starting Friday, August 13th...
Begins August 1st - registration is required.
Disciple 2 - Into the Word into the World
Group begins August 22, 2010
This intensive study is divided into 4 segments: Genesis, Exodus, Luke and Acts which are each studied for 8 weeks. The lessons include thought provoking questions fo the individual and the group. This study emphasizes the rhythm of coming to God and going for God, or being in the Word and in the world individually and corporately. Disciple 1 is a pre-requisite.
Facilitator: Kelly and Brian Borger
Time: Sunday evenings, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Location: Town Hall
Childcare available upon request
What could the people of God do for the Kingdom of God, if they were debt free? This is Dave Ramsey's life-changing program that teaches you to achieve your financial goals by eliminating debt, saving for the future, and giving like never before. This is a 13 week study in which Dave breaks through the common financial jargon and explains how money really works in a simple, easy-to-understand style. Its purpose is to teach Biblical financial principles, so you and your family can break through the financial bondage that our culture promotes - experience true financial freedom.
Group begins September 12, 2010
Facilitators: Jen and Jay Machado
Time: Sunday evenings, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: Theater
Childcare available upon request
Wednesday Evening Class Offerings
Devine Powers
Join Mike Devine & Ken Powers beginning Wednesday, August 18th from 6:30pm – 8:15pm in the Sanctuary as we look at common questions related to Worship, Grow, & Serve. We will have some music, some fun, and tackle questions similar to those above, including a Q&A time where we will provide an answer to all your spiritual questions!! (Runs until the end of September.)
This is a drop-in group, so registration is not necessary to attend, however it is helpful for us as we set up the room and for children's ministry to know how many to expect.
Pursuing Spiritual Transformation Series
Fully Devoted: Living Each Day in Jesus' Name
What does it mean to do everything "in Jesus' name"? Is that an ideal attainable only by a few "super Christians" - - or is it a way of life we can all experience? Fully Devoted introduces participants to the core ideas behind transformation. Participants will be shown how to reinvent themselves in the best way possible; by immersing themselves in Jesus' perfect image; they will model themselves after him and more.
Facilitators: Mark & Leigh Adams
Time: Wednesday evenings from 6:30 - 8:15pm
Location: The Lodge
Childcare is available upon request
Lee Strobel's "The Case for Faith"; "The Case for Christ" and "The Case for a Creator" this fall!
The former Chicago Tribune legal editor recounts how, with a journalist's tenacity, he questioned Christian scholars and experts with tough, point-blank questions: How reliable is the New Testament? Does evidence for Jesus exist outside the Bible? Is there any reason to believe the resurrection was an actual historical event? He shares how his search brought him to this conclusion: Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God.
New study begins August 18, 2010
All men are encouraged to attend and grow in faith together.
Facilitators: Ron Field
Time: Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:15pm
Location: The Rec Center
Childcare is available only upon request
This is an ongoing men's group that meets weekly. Registration is not a requirement for attending.
VISIT ANYTIME!!
Financial Peace University
What could the people of God do for the Kingdom of God, if they were debt free? This is Dave Ramsey's life-changing program that teaches you to achieve your financial goals by eliminating debt, saving for the future, and giving like never before. This is a 13 week study in which Dave breaks through the common financial jargon and explains how money really works in a simple, easy-to-understand style. Its purpose is to teach Biblical financial principles, so you and your family can break through the financial bondage that our culture promotes - experience true financial freedom.
Group begins September 8, 2010
Facilitators: John Stefanie
Time: Wednesday evenings, 6:30-8:15 p.m.
Location: Library
Childcare available upon request
Thursday Evening Class Offering
"Crazy Love" by Francis Chan
Does something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is callin gyou to a passionate love relationship with Himself. Because the answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts - it's falling in love with God. And once you enounter His love, as Francis describes it, you will never be the same - - - because when you're wildly in love iwth someone, it changes everything.
Group begins August 12, 2010 for 10 weeks
Facilitator: Lynne Carter
Time: Thursday evenings from 6:30-8:30 pm
Location: The Theater
No childcare is available
Disciple 4 - Under the Tree of Life (Class Full)
This is a 32 week study that concentrates on the writings in the Old Testaments; the new Testament Scriptures include the Gospel of John, Letters of John, James, Jude; and Revelation of John. The image of the tree of life frames the biblical story: In Genesis, in the midst of the garden, but off limits. In Revelation, on either side of the river of the water of life, with fruit to eat and leaves for the healing of nations. The word under in the title is meant to convey invitation, welcome, sheltering, security, rest --- home at last.
Group begins August 23rd until May, 2011
Facilitator: Pam Gilbert
Time: Monday evenings from 7-9pm
Location: The Studio
No childcare is available
Pre-requisite: Disciple 1
Register Here - Class is Full
Joy Group - Beth Moore's "Revelation: Here and Now . . . There and Then"
"Here and Now . . . There and Then" by Beth Moore is a lecture series on the book of Revelations. Beth presents many points of view, allowing women to decide for themselves when the interpretation varies among scholars. She teaches us that God is as specific about what He does reveal as He is about what He does not reveal.
Group begins August 9th until November 1st
Facilitator: Karen Wargo and Susan Lane
Time: Monday evenings from 6:30-8:30pm
Location: Theater
No childcare is available
The Amazing Collection - starting with the book of Job
This group will be going through the 5 Poetical books and the 5 Major Prophets of the Bible before the Thanksgiving/Christmas break.
Group begins August 17th
Facilitator: Renee Day and Melanie Peterson
Time: Tuesday mornings from 9:30-12:00pm
Location: Theater
No childcare is available
The Patriarchs - by Beth Moore
The Patriarchs: Encountering the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is taken primarily from Genesis, chapters 12-50. Beth Moore provides fascinating details from the lives of the patriarchs. She explores important concepts such as blessing, covenant and promise, and how they forever shaped the lives of Abraham and his descendants.
Group begins August 31st
Facilitator: Marian Roberson and Sarah Hove
Time: Tuesday mornings from 9:30-12:00pm
Location: Library
No childcare is available
Disciple 3 - Remember Who You Are (Class Full)
This 32-week course is divided into two 16 week segments. The first 16 weeks concentrates on the books of the prophets and the second 16 weeks concentrates on Paul's letters.
Group begins August 18, 2010
Facilitator: Jean Rector and Donna Hach
Time: 9:00am -12:00pm
Location: Library
No childcare is available
Class is Full!
Beth Moore's "Revelation: Here and Now . . . There and Then"
"Here and Now . . . There and Then" by Beth Moore is a lecture series on the book of Revelations. Beth presents many points of view, allowing women to decide for themselves when the interpretation varies among scholars. She teaches that God is as specific about what He does reveal as He is about what He he does not reveal.
Group begins August 18th
Faciliator: Robin Auer and Kristin Norton
Time: Wednesday mornings, 9:30-11:30am
Location: Rec Center
No childcare is available
"Better Together" by Rick Warren
In this eight-week group study, Rick Warren shows you how God planned for you to fulfill his purposes in community with other people - people in your church family, small group, and in the world around you. "Better Together" will deepen your understanding of how God uses community to grow and deepen your faith, as well as help you cultivate deeper relationships with those around you. Learn to fulfill God's purposes as you discover how we are better together.
Group begins August 25th until October 13th
Faciliator: Pat Circe
Time: Wednesday mornings, 9:30-11:30am
Location: Theater
No childcare is available
Friday Morning Women's Study - "A Heart Like His" by Beth Moore
In this in-depth Biblical biography, Beth Moore takes you on an intimate and exciting journey of David's remarkable life. From shepherd, to refugee, to king of Israel, David exhibited the purest virtues and the most heinous sinfulness. But through it all, his relationship with God continued to grow. This book will show you how to serve God better by understanding your own unique place in his heart.
Facilitator: Karen Foyle
Time: Friday mornings, 9:30am-12:00pm
Location: Lodge
Childcare available upon request
ScreamFree Parenting
We don't like to watch our children make mistakes and we don't like having to take the time and energy to enforce the consequences. Instead, we scream, or we get anxious, or we stress out. We may threaten, negotiate, and plead. We hope it works - meaning we hope our screaming or our anxiety forces them to behave the way we need them to. When it doesn't? We scream or get more anxious...and then our screaming becomes the consequence itself. This isn't working and everyone knows it, but what else can you do? In Screamfree Parenting, you learn to let go of the need to be the perfect parent with perfect techniques raising perfect kids.
Join this 8 week study in becoming Screamfree. Class begins August 13th.
Facilitator: Sara Gawlak
Time: Friday mornings, 9:30 am - 12 pm
Location: Town Hall
Childcare available upon request
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