9:00 am Session
January 29 - May 20

The Truth Project                      
Facilitators: Fred and Ben Scott
Location: Ministry Center Living Room
The Truth Project is a DVD-based small group curriculum comprised of 13 one-hour lessons or tours taught by Dr. Del Tackett.  Each lesson discusses in great detail the relevance and importance of living the Christian worldview in daily life.  We will “gaze upon the face of God,” not literally, but we will look at the glory of His attributes, His character, His nature.  In our first tour we explore the idea that He is Truth and the ultimate source of all Truth.  In the second tour, we will ponder His very nature and character as the basis of all ethics.  Later tours will look at His goodness and kindness, His sovereignty and His providence.  Current worldviews in science, history, sociology, labor, and community involvement will be explored.

Great Religious Quests: And How Jesus is the Answer.
Facilitator: David Larson
Location:  Family Center Large Room
The goals of this class are to: (1) equip us to build relationship and communication bridges that will help us to share Christ with those of other faith backgrounds in our community, and (2) to encourage us to pray more for those parts of the world dominated by those faiths and do it in an informed manner.   The first four weeks will deal with Islam and will be co-taught by David Larson and the Jon and Mary Perry.  Then David will cover Judaism (with Anita Richards), Mormonism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, and Dick Baer will spend two sessions on atheism.   

 10:45am Session
January 29-March 8

“On this rock…1Peter”
Facilitators: Peter Jackson (Bible study) and Bob Creech (learning community)
Location: Ministry Center Living Room
Simon Peter, an eye-witness to the ministry, sufferings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, is a rough-hewn character whose life is full of false starts and misguided enthusiasms. At one point willing to defend the Kingdom of God by force of arms, he is brought low by the collapse of his hopes and revealed as an abject coward. But Christ had foretold of Peter that “on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” In the letter that is 1 Peter, the apostle lays out a vision for the persecuted church, whose foundation is Christ, and whose hope is glory. In these eight weeks, as part of a learning community, we will study Peter’s transformation and this vision for the church.