Life Groups Are Starting Soon!

This past weekend, August 16th, your student will be able to sign up to be in a Life Group. This is a very important step in their spiritual journey!

Our goal is to create environments where students begin to "See and God sees, and Love as God loves." We do this through helping students build purposeful relationships, experience God for themselves and engage in opportunities to be actively involved in the cause of Christ by serving others. Each week in their Middle School or High School environments students will experience fun games, great food, rocking worship, a challenging talk, and most importantly a meaningful connection in a Life Group with other students their age and caring adult leaders.

Life Group is the environment where students can connect with other peers and a caring adult in our to process what God is doing in their lives and what they are learning. This is where their faith becomes their own and they can ask questions and build intimate relationships with others. Our program is changing so that Life Groups will no longer be on Wednesday evenings, but will now be an integrated part of your student's Sunday experience. This is to ease the schedule of your family, as well as enable leaders to have more time to focus on the students in their group, hopefully creating an even better environment for life change!

To get the most out of this environment, in it more important than ever for your student to consistently attend the same service, every week. So, for example, if you typically come to the 9:00am service, your Jr. High student will be placed in a Life Group with student their same grade and gender within The Spark for that service. If one week they attend the 10:30am service, they will not be able to be in a Life Group, instead they will have to participate in the "On Deck" group. There is only one service time for 4ORTY 2WO.

With that in mind, we hope that over the next few days, you will discuss with your student the goal of Life Groups as discussed above, and express your desire for him or her to sign up for a group. They can sign up this weekend and following weekends at The Spark or 4ORTY 2WO, or you can sign them up at the Habit Shack in The Student Zone during any of our weekend services. We hope to have sign ups available online as well in the very near future. Look for more information regarding that on this website.

Looking forward to having your student involved in Life Groups this year!!