Small Groups
We’re Better Together
God created us to live in community with one another. Small groups, or what we like to call Hope Groups, are people who meet regularly off-site (in homes, coffee shops, etc.) to pray together, connect in Christ-centered relationships, grow in their faith, and serve the world around them. Anyone is welcome to join a Hope Group and check out resources like weekly sermon discussion guides, online classes and more below to help your Hope Group thrive!
Join a Group
Group Resources
FAQs
Join a Hope Group
Hope Groups can form at any time throughout the year, but there are four main ways to get connected to a group: Group Studies, Apprentice Series, Alpha, and Interest Groups. These groups and group-based classes are often where people meet and then they continue to get together once the class is over. If you’re interested in joining a group but don’t know where to start, please fill out this form and we’ll get you connected!
Group Studies are offered throughout the year that you can join to form and join a new small group. In these classes, you’ll meet new people, form a group, go through a study together, and make a plan for continuing on together once the class is over.
This course is for anyone looking to explore Christianity, grow in their faith, meet new people or form a group. Alpha is offered three times a year in January, April and September.
Interest groups are groups that meet regularly around a shared interest. Check out the groups you can join, or let us know what group you’d like to see and we’ll help get it started!
Group Resources
Weekly Discussion Guides
Online Studies
Resource Library
Weekly Discussion Guides
This helpful resource is available for you and your group to dive deeper into the past weekend’s sermon and the daily Bible readings! Subscribe today to receive the discussion guide straight to your inbox every Monday, with thought-provoking questions, real-life applications, and helpful resources.
March 28 & 29: Which Path to Take at the Crossroads?
March 21 & 22: Discipleship 401: When Jesus Blows Our Minds!
March 14 & 15: True Identity: The Messiah & the Rock
March 7 & 8: The Secret to Spiritual Growth
Feb. 28 & March 1: Refreshing Rest for a Weary World
Group Studies
Tuesdays, April 14 – June 9, 6:30-8:00 pm
Practicing the Way
In this class, you will be put into a small group and go through a video-based study by John Mark Comer. Study guides can be purchased at Café Hope, as well as an optional book called “Practicing the Way” by John Mark Comer. Small groups formed in this class will be encouraged to continue meeting together off-site on their own once the class is over.
This class is designed to help you get started or unstuck on your journey of spiritual formation or as a guide to taking the next step. Ultimately, its goal is to train you to live as an apprentice of Jesus: to be with Jesus, become like him, and do as he did.
Group Study
The Sermon on the Mount
The Sermon on the Mount is one of Jesus’ most influential and impactful teachings. In this 10-week study, we will dive deep into Matthew 5-7 by watching video teachings, engaging in group discussion, and practicing spiritual disciplines.
Frequently Asked Questions
Hope Groups (previously known as Life Groups) are small groups of 8-12 people who meet regularly off-site to pray together, connect in Christ-centered relationships, grow in their faith and serve the world around them.
We were made to be in community with one another. The Christian life isn’t an individual journey. Instead, we need each other for spiritual growth and together we form the body of Christ. Hope Groups give us a place where these needs can be met.
Every group is different. Some decide to meet indefinitely, others for a year, still others for less (like the length of one study). You’ll have an opportunity to discuss this with a new Hope Group at a Group Study meeting. If you’re already in a Hope Group, we’d encourage you to have that conversation with your group members so everyone is on the same page.
If you’re already in a small group, whether you call it a life group, care group, small group, home group or whatever group, it can be a Hope Group! Hope Groups is the name we’re using to refer to all small groups of people at Hope who meet for connection, growth and service.
Ask your friends, neighbors and those you are already in community with to join you in becoming an official Hope Group that meets regularly to pray, connect, grow and serve!
Register and attend a Group Study.
If you have an existing Hope Group and want to add someone new, feel free to invite them. There’s no need for them to register through Hope in order to join your Hope Group.
Each Hope Group can decide what they study on their own. We have a library of resources available for groups to borrow from (email [email protected] for the list) and from time to time, we do all-church group studies that your group can join.
Hope Groups typically start by meeting on-site at a Group Study, but once the class is over, groups are encouraged to continue meeting together on their own in homes, coffee shops, libraries, restaurants … wherever they want!
Each group can choose a day/time that works best for them!
Absolutely. Each existing Hope Group gets to decide when and where they meet. The resources to take the studies are flexible and can be used at any time.
Contact Us
Eric Peyton
- Groups Minister
- [email protected]