Building Disciples: We seek to understand the grace and love of God we know in Christ Jesus,
through Christian education programs for all age groups, music ministry and fellowship activities.

6 Weeks: September 22- October 27
Thursday Nights 6:30-7:20 p.m.

Being a Presbyterian: A study of the Reformed tradition

In this class we will explore the Reformed tradition using short videos at the beginning to help facilitate discussions. These videos are hilarious and informative, and frame the theological questions that we all ask. Can it be proven God exists? How can God be “three in one”? Does God still create stuff today? If God has predestined me (Chosen me) why does it matter what I do? We will encounter the origins of the Reformed tradition, engage our beliefs, and respond to the practices of our faith.

Associate Pastor A.J. Mealor

 

The Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor and theologian who some have called one of the great Christian thinkers of the 20th Century. Born prior to First World War to a successful and powerful family, Bonhoeffer lived through the effects of German defeat and the rise of the Third Reich and Hitler in Germany. In this crucible of war, he grew and changed to a disciple of Christ who came to understand what true grace is, and why it is costly. He was part of a small dissident group inside Germany who tried to overthrow Hitler, and was martyred for his efforts, just days before the concentration camp where he was imprisoned, was liberated. In this class we well explore who Bonhoeffer was, the forces and people who shaped his theology, and the teachings for which he is so well known, costly grace, Christ existing as community, and Stellvertretung (vicarious representative action). Most importantly you will learn about a man who took the Sermon on the Mount to heart, and truly understood what Jesus meant when he said "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me". Luke 9:23

John Shaffer

 

Study of Romans

The Apostle Paul’s letter to the Romans is his greatest work. The letter brilliantly sets down the whole scope of the Christian faith. He knew he was writing to a well educated audience, and wanted to convince the demanding readers that Jesus Christ held the answers to all of life's important questions. Paul takes the well-witnessed and devoutly believed fact of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and thinks through its implications. How does it happen that in the death and resurrection of Jesus, world history took a new direction, and at the same moment the life of every man, woman, and child on the planet was eternally effected? What is God up to? What does it mean that Jesus “saves”? Paul takes logic and argument, poetry and imagination, Scripture and prayer, creation and history and experience, and weaves them into this letter that has become the premier document of Christian theology.

Pastor Mark Lyndaker-Studer

Handbells

If you are in grades 4-12 and would like to try a musical instrument or be part of a musical group, please sign up to be part of the handbell choir. Music reading helpful but not required.

Suzanne Zak