Plan Your Year
Around the Bible

Need Direction? Don’t Miss Out!
Choose the Course Right for You!

Disciple Bible Study is an excellent tool for establishing a daily devotional, clearer understanding of the scriptures, and developing community in a small group. 
Disciple classes begin late August or early September and run through the school year.  There is a $40 fee for the purchase for materials. You can sign up in Upper Fellowship Hall in late July or early August. Participants read portions of Scripture for 20 to 30 minutes six days a week. During the course of 30+ weeks, groups will move through the portions of the bible. The study uses biblical language and images and draws upon the work of scholars to aid understanding of the Bible. Classes are held on various days and times.

Alpha is 10-week experience, where people come together to explore what relevance Jesus has for their lives today.  Through video and small group experience, people learn the basics of the Christian faith and experience Christ in a real way. Alpha begins on Wednesday nights in September. Class is $5.00 per person. 

Financial Peace University is a 13-week, life-changing program that empowers and teaches you how to make the right money decisions to achieve your financial goals and experience a total money makeover. FPU begins in September. It is $105 per person/couple.  Financial Peace will be held either on Sunday or Monday evening starting in September.

Companions in Christ is 28 weeks and provides a setting for learning spiritual disciplines in prayer, scripture, study, worship, ministry, and Christian conversation. It has a similar structure to Disciple Bible Study. Group members partake in personal daily readings and reflections five days a week for 20 to 30 minutes.  Companions in Christ is less academic than Disciple Bible Study but more reflective and experiential. Materials are $20.00 per person. Date and time of class has not been set.

  

Are you seeking God, but find that your search is not producing the results you desire?

God is and always will be a mystery, but He is a loving and awesome mystery. Join us, as you continue in your spiritual journey, but with friends and partners in faith.

As we each learn and grow, we help one another embrace and grow in our relationship with God. And this mysterious God starts to become very real and leads to a total transformation in Christ.

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St. Mark's Adult Ministry is rich and plentiful in ways you, too, can increase your spiritual and scriptural awareness.

Contact Dan Todd at 489-8884 or dtodd@stmarks.org for more information on any of these programs. Limited Scholarships are available for all of these programs. There are also specific opportunities or groups designed for couples, parents, men, and women at St. Marks United Methodist Church.