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STAFF CONTACT
Jon Ewton
Senior Pastor
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SEMESTER-BASED GROUPS
Sacred Pathways Video Study
Type of Group: Women
Day and Time: Tuesdays biweekly from 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Location: Lake Community Church
Start Date: January 18th
Childcare: Childcare is provided
Cost: $15.00 per participant guide
Special Note: No homework required. Read aloud, Watch a video, and DiscussDescription: Come discuss Sacred Pathways by Gary Thomas as we discover nine unique ways to connect with God. You will feel encouraged as you are affirmed in the individual way God created you to draw near to Him.
Precept Study - 1 Samuel
Type of Group: Women
Day and Time: Thursdays from 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Location: Lake Community Church
Start Date: January 20th
Childcare: Childcare is provided
Cost: $20.00 per participant guide
Special Note: Bring your BibleDescription: 1 Samuel - God's Search for a Man After His Own Heart - In this in-depth, inductive study, discover God's truth for yourself. From judges to kings, from the departure of God's glory to the assurance of His help, from inquiring of the Lord to inquiring of a medium - this book of contrasts sets before us the importance of a life of obedience and how it's lived out in the midst of interpersonal conflicts. Precept International Ministries.
Mama Bear Apologetics
Type of Group: Women
Day and Time: Mondays from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Lake Community Church
Start Date: January 24th
Childcare: Childcare is provided
Cost: $20.00 per participant guide
Special Note: Bring your Bible
We will not be meeting on 2/21, 3/21, 4/18.Description: Calling all Mama Bears! When your kids come home from school asking questions about everything from moral relativity to cultural Marxism to whether God even exists, you need to be prepared with biblically sound answers. This study will help you understand the secular worldview your children face every day and build the foundation of faith and knowledge you need to equip them to respond to our culture's lies. This is a 15-week study using both the Mama Bear Apologetics book and study guide by Hillary Morgan Ferrer. Knowing what is true is the best way to argue against what is false. This study will ready you to be confident as you seek effective ways to help your kids stand strong.
Lies Women Believe and the Truth that Sets them Free
Type of Group: Women
Day and Time: Mondays from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Lake Community Church
Start Date: March 21st
Childcare: Childcare is provided
Cost: $25.00 per participant book & study guide package
Special Note: Bring your Bible, book and study guide. Expect weekly homework.Description: The Truth may not change your circumstances, but it will change you. The Truth will set you free. In this book, Nancy DeMoss exposes those areas of deception most commonly believed by Christian women- lies about God, sin, marriage, emotions, and more. We will use the most effective weapon to overcome Satan's deceptions: God's truth in this weekly study with helpful homework and engaging discussion.
The Struggle is Real
Type of Group: Women
Day and Time: Mondays from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Lake Community Church
Start Date: March 21st
Childcare: Childcare is provided
Cost: $25.00 per participant book & study guide package
Special Note: Bring your Bible, book and study guide.Description: Join us for this six session video class where we will learn practical tools to help us navigate the daily ups and downs, and ways to rewrite our struggles into a new, God-centered life story. The Struggle is Real by Nicole Unice is an invitation to take the hard, hurtful, and confusing moments and turn them into opportunities to grow in wisdom, strength, and joy.
Ten Women of the Bible
Type of Group: Women
Day and Time: Tuesdays from 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Location: Host Home - Click Here
Start Date: April 5th
Childcare: Childcare is not provided
Cost: $15.00
Special Note: Bring your Bible and study guide.Description: Do you ever feel like a second-class citizen in this world? Do you wonder how God could possibly use you to change lives? For women in Bible times, these weren't even questions they thought about. Being overlooked, marginalized, having your contributions discounted because you're a woman...it's just the way things were. In this 10-lesson workbook, Max Lucado tells some of his favorite accounts of women in Scripture and the remarkable way God broke down cultural barriers to use them in the unfolding of His story.
Jesus & Women
Type of Group: Women
Day and Time: Thursdays from 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Location: Lake Community Church
Start Date: April 7th
Childcare: Childcare is provided
Cost: $20.00 per participant guide
Special Note: Bring your Bible and workbook. Expect 1 hour of homework per week.Description: Be transported back to Jesus' world, stepping into the footsteps of the women who came face to face with the living God. Over seven sessions, Kristi McLelland examines the historical and cultural climate of first-century Middle Eastern society to not only understand Jesus more deeply but to fuel your worship of Him today.
Women's Precept Study - 1-2-3 John (am)
Type of Group: Women
Day and Time: Thursdays from 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Location: Lake Community Church
Start Date: April 7th
Childcare: Childcare is provided
Cost: $15.00 per participant guide
Special Note: Bring your Bible and colored pencils. There will be homework 5 days a week for 20-30 minutes per day.Description: How do you know if you're really born again? What does it mean to be holy... to love God? Find answers to these and other questions as you take a look back at the fundamentals of Christian beliefs. 1 John 5:13, "These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may KNOW that you have eternal life." This study has seven lessons and is from Precept International Ministries.
Women's Precept Study - 1-2-3 John (pm)
Type of Group: Women
Day and Time: Thursdays from 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Lake Community Church
Start Date: April 7th
Childcare: Childcare is not provided
Cost: $15.00 per participant guide
Special Note: Bring your Bible and colored pencils. There will be homework 5 days a week for 20-30 minutes per day.Description: How do you know if you're really born again? What does it mean to be holy... to love God? Find answers to these and other questions as you take a look back at the fundamentals of Christian beliefs. 1 John 5:13, "These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may KNOW that you have eternal life." This study has seven lessons and is from Precept International Ministries.
Authentic Manhood
Type of Group: Men
Day and Time: Tuesdays from 5:30 am - 6:30 am
Location: Lake Community Church
Start Date: May 10th
Childcare: Childcare is not provided
Cost: Free
Special Note: Bring your BibleDescription: This class helps men understand their masculine identity and shows how to make the pursuit of manhood a life-long priority. This video class is taught by Robert Lewis, author of “Raising a Modern Day Knight” and former pastor of Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock Arkansas. Comments from a past participant: "I learned that leadership is not always what I thought it was and that one of the best ways to lead is actually to set an example by serving“. Many have commented that these messages have blessed them with a new sense of their own masculine identity, giving them a personal manhood vision, as well as insight into what God had in mind when he brought men into the world.
Leader Information
John Johnson & Troy Fuller
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Life Groups
The Chosen
Type of Group: Adults
Day and Time: Mondays (biweekly) from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Madison Home - Click Here
Start Date: Currently available
Childcare: Childcare is not provided
Cost: FreeDescription: This ongoing Life Group will use the current hit TV series, The Chosen, to look at the life and ministry of Jesus that will bring your reading of the Gospels to life. Each session will include watching an episode and discussion based on discovering Jesus.
Young Couples Without Kids
Type of Group: Young Married Couples
Day and Time: Tuesdays from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Host Home
Start Date: Currently available
Childcare: Childcare is not provided
Cost: FreeDescription: The Young Couples Without Kids Life Group is an ongoing group that meets every Tuesday with the purpose of growing deeper in community with others and studying the Bible regularly. Topics and studies will change periodically but they are intended to establish a strong foundation in the faith.
Leader Information
Andrew Paskewitz
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Leader Information
Jenna Peterson
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Young Families Life Group
Type of Group: Young Families
Day: First & Third Sundays of the Month
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Lake Community Church
Start Date: January 16th
Childcare: Childcare is provided
Cost: FreeDescription: The Young Families Life Group is an ongoing group that meets twice a month with the purpose of growing deeper in community with others and studying the Bible regularly. Topics and studies will change periodically but they are intended to establish a strong foundation in the faith. Childcare will be provided for this group.
Leader Information
Jon & Katherine Ewton
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LONG-TERM GROUPS
Long-term groups are existing groups that are currently meeting and that are available for new people to join at the beginning of the season or some of them can be joined at any time. They meet throughout the year on schedules set by the group leader with no set endpoint. They may meet weekly or only have certain events at random. It is important to stay connected with your leader for information updates and event changes.
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Leader Information
Jon Ewton
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Coffee Connection
Type of Group: Adults
Day and Time: Wednesdays from 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Location: Lake Community Church
Start Date: Currently available
Childcare: Childcare is not provided
Cost: Free
Special Note: Coffee and donuts provided.Description: Are you feeling isolated, alone, and disconnected? We need real relationships with one another so we are starting an ongoing opportunity to connect with other people, make some new friends, and care well for one another. Join us on Wednesday mornings for coffee, donuts, and genuine conversations about life.
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Leader Information
Jon Ries
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9:00am Sunday Adult Class
Type of Group: Adults (Men and Women)
Day and Time: Sundays from 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Location: Lake Community Church
Start Date: Currently available
Childcare: Children’s Ministry is available for kids (birth - 5th grade).
Cost: Free
Special Note: Bring your Bible.Description: This ongoing group is open for new people to join as we continue to study the Bible. This is an interactive verse-by-verse study with lots of discussion focused on the doctrinal significance and historical context of the text; building relationships as we discuss and work through the challenging passages together. Currently studying the Gospel of John.
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Leader Information
Dave DeFoe
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10:30am Sunday Adult Class
Type of Group: Adults (Men and Women)
Day and Time: Sundays from 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Location: Lake Community Church
Start Date: Currently available
Childcare: Children’s Ministry is available for kids (birth - 5th grade).
Cost: Free
Special Note: Bring your Bible.Description: This ongoing group is open for new people to join and will learn with Gospel-centered studies to help you see and cherish the message of God’s grace on each and every page of the Bible. Currently, this is a video series study of Genesis with discussion. The lessons relate back to Jewish culture in the Bible for better understanding and meaning.
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Leader Information
Jon Ewton
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Sermon-based Bible Study
Type of Group: Men (all ages)
Day and Time: Thursdays from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Lake Community Church
Start Date: Currently available
Childcare: Childcare is not provided
Cost: Free
Special Note: Participant materials will be provided.Description: Have you ever wanted to dig deeper in the sermons? This group studies the Scripture passage of the upcoming Sunday using a simple but effective study method. We read the scriptures together and talk about how they make a difference in our lives.
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Men's Bible Study
Type of Group: Men (all ages)
Day and Time: Fridays from 8:00 am - 9:00 am
Location: Lake Community Church
Start Date: Currently available
Childcare: Childcare is not provided
Cost: Free
Special Note: Participant materials will be provided.Description: There are no shortcuts to maturing in our faith and growing in our knowledge of God. This group of guys meets continuously to study the Bible, sometimes books, chapters, or selected passages, to discover and discuss what they show about God and what he wants us to learn. Pray, study, discuss, repeat.
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CONNECTING GROUPS
Lake Community Church has a number of small groups that meet frequently throughout the year. The groups below are our life stage groups.
Student Ministry
Leader: Cory Shreve
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Type of Group: Grades 6-12
Day: Wednesdays
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Lake Community Church
Special Note: Register your students online.Description: Student Ministry is a place for middle and high school students to connect in relationships with other students and grow or discover their faith. It is a fun experience in which students get relevant teaching and engaging small group discussions to help understand and apply God’s truth to life.
Marriage Ministry
Leader: Brad & Leigha VanderTuin
email: bradvandertuin@gmail.com
email: leighavandertuin@gmail.com
Type of Group: Married and Engaged CouplesDescription: We greatly value marriage and we know the importance of investing in these relationships. We will be offering marriage groups during each semester as our primary efforts to support and invest in couples. We will also promote key marriage events throughout the year.
Men's Ministry
Leader: Jon Ewton
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Type of Group: Men (all ages)Description: Our Men’s Ministry consists of a variety of short-term and ongoing small groups that focus on spiritual growth in the context of relationships. We also supplement these small groups by occasional events.
Women's Ministry
Leader: Jon Ewton
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Type of Group: Women (all ages)Description: Our Women’s Ministry consists of a variety of short-term and ongoing small groups that focus on spiritual growth in the context of relationships. We also supplement these small groups by occasional events.
PrimeTimers 55+
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Type of Group: Adults 55+Description: PrimeTimers is an event-based group for anyone 55+ to gather and meet new people and build lasting friendships. We have a variety of events on an every other month basis.
STAFF CONTACT
Jon Ewton
Senior Pastor
email Pastor Jon
320-762-5424
Need a little help?
We do not want finances to be a reason that you cannot participate in a small group. If you need financial assistance to help cover the cost of the materials, contact Pastor Jon prior to registering.
email Pastor Jon
(320) 762-5424