Winter Session Dates: January 19-March 15

Groups meet weekly in homes throughout Clark County. A gathering usually will last an hour and a half.

Community Groups meet during the school year in trimesters, taking an extended break during the holiday season and again at Easter. Typically, each session is 7-10 weeks long in the fall, winter and spring.

We ask that you commit to a group for a session. At the end of the session, you can choose to stay in that same group, try a new group or take a break. Most groups will stay together throughout the entire year and beyond.

Together, we’ll dig into the weekend message. Community Group is a place where we’ll focus on what it means to apply the teachings of the Bible to our everyday life – how we interact with our spouse, our orientation at work, the way we parent, even the reactions we have to fellow drivers on the road! 😉

We know child care can be a challenge, but want to encourage you that the benefit of being connected in a Community Group is worth solving the challenge!

Here are some of the most common solutions:

• Each family handles their own child care.

• Families with kids collectively pay a babysitter to be with all the kids, either onsite in another room or offsite at another house.

• Co-op child care amongst the group. Rotating through the group, two people pair up to be with the kids, either onsite in another room or offsite at another house.

• If only a handful of people have kids, the group may choose to pool funds to help cover the cost of child care.

If you have older kids, we’d love for them to have a similar group experience with their peers. Check out the small group programs available for MSM (middle school ministry) and HSM (high school ministry).

The best training a Community Group leader can get is to experience one! All of our leaders have been in a Community Group for at least one trimester before leading their own group.

Ongoing training will happen in a large group format twice a year. Every group will also have a coach, who will encourage and support them throughout the year.

Yes! And no. Both HSM (high school) and MSM (middle school) offer small groups for students during the school year. Just like Community Groups, these small group gatherings are vital to the spiritual growth of our students. But the schedule and topic of study is designed with students in mind and doesn’t follow our church-wide Community Group program.

Get more information at MSM and HSM.

If you’re a Young Adult (ages 18-25), we offer the exact same Community Group experience, but with a twist. Instead of meeting at different times throughout the weeks in homes, we gather year-round on Monday nights at our Central Vancouver campus.