Life Groups &
Marriage Mentoring.
Life Groups meet weekly on Tuesdays to help people grow, change, and overcome their life challenges through Bible-based course study. These courses are led by facilitators who want to see people grow and change, and most facilitators have navigated through these challenges themselves.
Life Groups
Start Date: September 16, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: 205 Greenbank Rd
Fee: $40 ($60 for couples taking Marriage Oneness, Change Your Money Story, or Strengthening Blended Families. For these courses, register one for the course and the other as “Spouse”.)
Strengthening Blended Families
Discover The Keys To A Healthy Stepfamily
This course reveals the seven fundamental steps to blended family success and provides practical, realistic solutions to the issues you face as a stepfamily. Whether married or soon-to-be-married, you'll discover how to:
Solve the everyday puzzles of step parenting and stepchildren relationships
Communicate effectively with an ex-spouse
Handle stepfamily finances confidently
"Cook" your stepfamily slowly rather than expect an instant blend
Fee: $60 per couple; register one for the course and the other as "Spouse".
Chronic Illness
Strength and Hope for the Journey
Chronic illness can bring a variety of life-style changes and feelings which may be difficult to process. There is comfort in sharing your journey in a safe, confidential place where others are walking similar journeys. Faith-filled stories will be shared of how people have faced such illnesses as cancer, Chrone’s, fibromyalgia, bone marrow failure, blood disorders, stroke, MS and multiple chemical sensitivities. Their stories of hope, combined with Biblical insights and reflective questions will inspire strength and hope as well as remind you that you are not alone.
If attending in person is challenging due to low immunity, exhaustion or mobility issues, let us know so arrangements can be made to attend by zoom. Don't go through this alone.
Change Your Money Story
Take control of your money and your future. This course will address topics like paying off debt, budgeting, insurance, wills, saving money and giving generously. Couples must attend together.
Fee: $40/individual, $60/couple (Register one for the course and the other as “Spouse”)
Recovery From Codependency
This group offers a supportive place to explore unhealthy relationship styles found in families and the unhealthy effects it has on us as we grow up. You may have attempted to find comfort in unstable or unsatisfying ways and have assumed negative and false beliefs about yourself. Journeying through this workbook will help you see how to create a healthy new identity and understand what healthy relationships look like and how to achieve them.
Boundaries
When to Say Yes, How to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life
Having clear boundaries is essential to a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Do you ask questions like:
Can I set limits and still be a loving person?
What are legitimate boundaries?
What if someone is upset or hurt by my boundaries?
How do I answer someone who wants my time, love, energy, or money?
Aren't boundaries selfish?
Why do I feel guilty or afraid when I consider setting boundaries?
This course offers biblically-based answers to these and other tough questions, showing how to set healthy boundaries with parents, spouses, children, friends, co-workers, and even ourselves.
Anger: Overcoming Emotions That Destroy
Life is full of hurts and bumps and bruises. Every emotional hurt we experience produces an automatic reaction of anger in us, even if we are not aware of it. As a result, we tend to repress our anger instead of using it to help us deal with life’s hurts. Anger is often misunderstood and when we express it in a destructive manner, we experience hurt again.
In this course, you’ll learn how anger can work for your benefit and how to use it to overcome hurts and offences through forgiveness.
Here are a few of the topics covered:
Understanding anger’s purpose
How depression, anorexia, sarcasm and yelling can all come from a similar root
How to deal with hurt by turning anger into a friend
Developing a strategy that turns anger into motivation
Distinguishing between anger and bitterness
How to heal hurt and bitterness through forgiveness
Overcoming Anxiety
The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Don't let anything in life leave you perpetually in angst. Philippians 4:4-8 contains an antidote to anxiety that will help you develop a mindset of resilience. Rediscover the power of prayer and take control of your thoughts. You can rest in "the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding."
Marriage Oneness
Closeness For a Lifetime
Marriage Oneness equips couples to grow in true intimacy, connection, and purpose--and experience closeness in seven key areas: communication, conflict resolution, finances, spiritual beliefs, sexuality, responsibilities, and outside influences. Whether married for many years, newlywed, or preparing for marriage, this engaging, enjoyable 8 week course presented by a variety of couples is for you.
Fee: $60 per couple (Register one for the course and the other as "Spouse")
GriefShare
Your Journey from Mourning to Living Again
Grief is not just sadness or depression; it is a whole host of emotions ranging through anxiety, anger, guilt, confusion, vulnerability, relief and more. Those who have suffered the passing of a loved one will acquire coping tools, emotional support and encouragement to rebuild. The format is DVD, discussions and a book of inspirational readings.
DivorceCare - Journey of Hope
This course is to help you find healing from the pain of separation or divorce. It’s a 13-week, video-based program, and you’ll find help to manage the emotional turmoil and practical tools for decision-making. You’re not alone, and you will be ok.
Battlefield Of The Mind: For Women
Overcoming Negative Thoughts
Worry, doubt, confusion, depression, anger and feelings of condemnation: all are attacks on the mind. If you suffer from negative thoughts, take heart! You will learn to deal with thousands of thoughts that you may think every day and how to focus your mind the way God thinks. Through personal stories, biblical truth, and encouragement you will learn to think with purpose, win the battles of your mind, and begin a joy-filled life.
MARRIAGE MENTORING
MOST MARRIAGES DON’T NEED AN OVERHAUL, JUST REGULAR TUNE-UPS
You are not alone in your experiences. You’ll be paired with another couple who wants to listen and invest in your lives. Over the course of a year, they’ll guide you through 14 conversations crucial for a healthy marriage. This isn’t crisis counselling, it’s an opportunity to share your story and learn from the life experience of another couple.
You will meet with your mentor couple for approximately 90 minutes a month. They will guide you through one of the conversations in your conversation guide and listen to you, encourage you and help you to determine some next steps to grow closer together.