Clemmons UMC offers many rich and diverse small group study offerings on a weekly basis. For information regarding our Sunday morning small groups that are available, please visit the Sunday School page.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT CONNECTION
Wednesday Night Connection returns September 15th - Nov. 17th! (NO WED. NIGHT CONNECTION OCT. 13 & NOV. 3) REGISTER TODAY
- CHILDCARE - Childcare is available. Please indicate that you need childcare when you register.
- Course Cost: $10 per person for book and/or participant's guides. Scholarships available. Pay your teacher the evening of your first meeting. Books will be purchased for you.
- DINNER - If you are having dinner at 6pm, please download this form and return it to the church office in order to RSVP for your meal(s).
Courses offered:
MARRIAGE - The Five Love Languages
Meeting in A-205 (fellowship class) -- Teacher: Otis Chilton
Marriage should be based on love, right? But does it seem as though you and your spouse are speaking two different languages? New York Times bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman guides couples in identifying, understanding, and speaking their spouse’s primary love language—quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch.
By learning the five love languages, you and your spouse will discover your unique love languages and learn practical steps in truly loving each other. Chapters are categorized by love language for easy reference, and each one ends with specific, simple steps to express a specific language to your spouse and guide your marriage in the right direction. A newly designed love languages assessment will help you understand and strengthen your relationship. You can build a lasting, loving marriage together.
PERSONAL DISCIPLESHIP - Irresistible Revolution: living as an ordinary radical
location: TBA -- Teacher: Clark Chilton
If there is such a thing as a disarming radical, 30-year-old Claiborne is it. A former Tennessee Methodist and born-again, high school prom king, Claiborne is now a founding member of one of a growing number of radical faith communities. His is called the Simple Way, located in a destitute neighborhood of Philadelphia. It is a house of young believers, some single, some married, who live among the poor and homeless. They call themselves "ordinary radicals" because they attempt to live like Christ and the earliest converts to Christianity, ignoring social status and unencumbered by material comforts.
Claiborne's chatty and compelling narrative is magnetic—his stories (from galvanizing a student movement that saved a group of homeless families from eviction to reaching Mother Teresa herself from a dorm phone at 2 a.m.) draw the reader in with humor and intimacy, only to turn the most common ways of practicing religion upside down. He somehow skewers the insulation of suburban living and the hypocrisy of wealthy churches without any self-righteous finger pointing. "The world," he says, "cannot afford the American dream." Claiborne's conviction, personal experience and description of others like him are a clarion call to rethink the meaning of church, conversion and Christianity; no reader will go away unshaken.
PARENTING - Parenting: The Early Years
Location: A-207 Conference Room -- Teacher: Pete & Cheryl Nehnevajsa
from the publisher:
"Six part Video Series for small group Bible studies:
- Session One - Time (19 Minutes)
- Session Two - Affirming (16 Minutes)
- Session Three - Defiance (24 Minutes)
- Session Four - Authenticity(21 Minutes)
- Session Five - Worry (15 Minutes)
- Session Six - Legacy (17 Minutes)
Recently we’ve been working with Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott regarding topics specifically for the parents of young children. They are best selling authors, who have sold over one million copies of their books. They are a very solid Christian couple that has been featured on Christianity Today, ABC’s Good Morning America, Focus on the Family, The New York Times and they’ve even made their way on to Oprah.
What we’ve been finding is that so many parents out there are wondering, “Do I have what it takes to be a good parent?” A lot of times parents need help, but nobody likes to ask for help.
That’s why we’ve teamed up with Les and Leslie Parrott to create a new video-driven Bible study called Parenting: The Early Years. Now, this goes deeper than any technique of just getting kids to eat their broccoli and clean their room. It takes a Biblical approach into the traits parents want their children to have and what traits they want their children to see modeled in them.
On this six part video series, our team took their cameras into the homes of 20 families and captured real-life parenting moments. Some of these are funny moments and some are just completely honest moments that every parent can relate to.
The study looks at what it’s like for married, single and blended families. It works well in a Sunday morning class or small group Bible study, a parenting seminar or even to send home with expecting parents or even grandparents who are finding themselves raising their grandkids (because we all know children don’t come with instructions)."
GRIEF - Griefshare: from mourning into morning
Location: Parlor -- Teacher: Rev. Mark Portis
Griefshare is a twelve week, small group experience. Because of it's longer length, it will last until December 8th.
WOMEN'S BIBLE STUDY -
Location: -- Teacher: Marlee Beckom
All women invited for an evening of Bible study and women's fellowship.
Clemmons UMC offers many rich and diverse small group study offerings on a weekly basis. For information regarding our Sunday morning small groups that are available, please visit the Sunday School page.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT CONNECTION
Wednesday Night Connection returns September 15th - Nov. 17th! (NO WED. NIGHT CONNECTION OCT. 13 & NOV. 3) REGISTER TODAY
- CHILDCARE - Childcare is available. Please indicate that you need childcare when you register.
- Course Cost: $10 per person for book and/or participant's guides. Scholarships available. Pay your teacher the evening of your first meeting. Books will be purchased for you.
- DINNER - If you are having dinner at 6pm, please download this form and return it to the church office in order to RSVP for your meal(s).
Courses offered:
MARRIAGE - The Five Love Languages
Meeting in A-205 (fellowship class) -- Teacher: Otis Chilton
Marriage should be based on love, right? But does it seem as though you and your spouse are speaking two different languages? New York Times bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman guides couples in identifying, understanding, and speaking their spouse’s primary love language—quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch.
By learning the five love languages, you and your spouse will discover your unique love languages and learn practical steps in truly loving each other. Chapters are categorized by love language for easy reference, and each one ends with specific, simple steps to express a specific language to your spouse and guide your marriage in the right direction. A newly designed love languages assessment will help you understand and strengthen your relationship. You can build a lasting, loving marriage together.
PERSONAL DISCIPLESHIP - Irresistible Revolution: living as an ordinary radical
location: TBA -- Teacher: Clark Chilton
If there is such a thing as a disarming radical, 30-year-old Claiborne is it. A former Tennessee Methodist and born-again, high school prom king, Claiborne is now a founding member of one of a growing number of radical faith communities. His is called the Simple Way, located in a destitute neighborhood of Philadelphia. It is a house of young believers, some single, some married, who live among the poor and homeless. They call themselves "ordinary radicals" because they attempt to live like Christ and the earliest converts to Christianity, ignoring social status and unencumbered by material comforts.
Claiborne's chatty and compelling narrative is magnetic—his stories (from galvanizing a student movement that saved a group of homeless families from eviction to reaching Mother Teresa herself from a dorm phone at 2 a.m.) draw the reader in with humor and intimacy, only to turn the most common ways of practicing religion upside down. He somehow skewers the insulation of suburban living and the hypocrisy of wealthy churches without any self-righteous finger pointing. "The world," he says, "cannot afford the American dream." Claiborne's conviction, personal experience and description of others like him are a clarion call to rethink the meaning of church, conversion and Christianity; no reader will go away unshaken.
PARENTING - Parenting: The Early Years
Location: A-207 Conference Room -- Teacher: Pete & Cheryl Nehnevajsa
from the publisher:
"Six part Video Series for small group Bible studies:
- Session One - Time (19 Minutes)
- Session Two - Affirming (16 Minutes)
- Session Three - Defiance (24 Minutes)
- Session Four - Authenticity(21 Minutes)
- Session Five - Worry (15 Minutes)
- Session Six - Legacy (17 Minutes)
Recently we’ve been working with Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott regarding topics specifically for the parents of young children. They are best selling authors, who have sold over one million copies of their books. They are a very solid Christian couple that has been featured on Christianity Today, ABC’s Good Morning America, Focus on the Family, The New York Times and they’ve even made their way on to Oprah.
What we’ve been finding is that so many parents out there are wondering, “Do I have what it takes to be a good parent?” A lot of times parents need help, but nobody likes to ask for help.
That’s why we’ve teamed up with Les and Leslie Parrott to create a new video-driven Bible study called Parenting: The Early Years. Now, this goes deeper than any technique of just getting kids to eat their broccoli and clean their room. It takes a Biblical approach into the traits parents want their children to have and what traits they want their children to see modeled in them.
On this six part video series, our team took their cameras into the homes of 20 families and captured real-life parenting moments. Some of these are funny moments and some are just completely honest moments that every parent can relate to.
The study looks at what it’s like for married, single and blended families. It works well in a Sunday morning class or small group Bible study, a parenting seminar or even to send home with expecting parents or even grandparents who are finding themselves raising their grandkids (because we all know children don’t come with instructions)."
GRIEF - Griefshare: from mourning into morning
Location: Parlor -- Teacher: Rev. Mark Portis
Griefshare is a twelve week, small group experience. Because of it's longer length, it will last until December 8th.
WOMEN'S BIBLE STUDY -
Location: -- Teacher: Marlee Beckom
All women invited for an evening of Bible study and women's fellowship.