Groups
The new group semester will launch February 15th, 2010.
Groups are designed to help you connect with others while growing spiritually as you dig deeper into the Word and apply biblical principles to your life.
Find a Small Group- Search for the groups which best fit your schedule and needs.
- Select a group and complete the brief contact form to let the leader know you're interested.
If you are a small group leader, click here to manage your group.
Below you will find a list of our group coordinators. Should you have any questions, please feel to contact them.
| Group | Contact |
|---|---|
| Men's | David O'Rear |
| Women's | Patrice Brier |
| Married's | |
| - 20/30s | Matt and Rachel Daniell |
| - 40s and up | Terry and Debbie Turner (904-260-0212) |
| Singles | |
| - 20/30s | Andrew and Dawn Thurber |
| - 40s and up | Steve and Marlene Miller (904-579-7248) |
| Middle School through College | |
| - College | Tiffany Vail |
| - High School | Tiffany Vail |
| - Middle School | Tiffany Vail |
| Campus | Contact |
|---|---|
| Midtown | Patrice Brier (904-737-1121) |
| Orange Park | Amery Baygents (904-264-8133) |
| St. John's | Jimena Castro (904-737-1121) |
| St. Augustine | Jason McKenzie |
| Camden County | Jack Smidt |
School of Life Curriculum
Click on a curriculum below for a full description.
If you have any questions about School of Life, please contact Patrice Brier.
Life Skills
- Effective Parenting in A Defective World
How to raise kids that will stand out from the crowd. (10 weeks)
- Financial Peace University
This biblically based study teaches you how to make right decisions with your money. You’ll be empowered with practical skills to beat debt, build wealth, achieve your financial goals and experience true financial peace! (13 weeks)
Workbook available at the Resource Center.
- Five Lies that Ruin Relationships by Chip Ingram
Have you ever wondered how a circumstance or relationship in your life became so messy or difficult? By looking in the book of James, we’ll define five of the most common lies that have the potential to ruin relationships with those we love. (10 weeks)
- Have a New Kid by Friday
If you’re tired of a defiant attitude or power struggles with your children, no matter the age, this is the group for you. Help to improve your child’s attitude, behavior & character. (13 weeks)
Book is available at the Resource Center.
- Intimate Marriage
This study for couples will help you take small, real steps toward honoring the image of God in each other and living out the goal of marriage. Discover the foundation God uses in marriage to reveal Himself, transforming us from the inside out. (6 weeks)
- Life’s Healing Choices
Regain freedom from your hurts, hang-ups, and habits through eight healing choices that promise true happiness and life transformation. These choices will reveal God’s pathway to wholeness, growth, spiritual maturity, happiness, and healing. You’ll find real answers, real hope, and a real future — one healing choice at a time. (8 weeks)
- MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers)
A MOPS group is a dynamic, fun environment where women can come just as they are to build friendships, be encouraged and gain practical parenting strategies. (Year Round)
- Our Secret Paradise
Discover the healing journey of marriage that begins when two people say “I do.” Practical discussions and humorous illustrations of marital ups and downs teach the keys to a strong and beautiful marriage relationship. (7 weeks)
Participant guide is available at the Resource Center.
- Sacred Marriage
What if God designed marriage to make us holy and not just happy? Discover how respecting your partner, forgiving and accepting forgiveness, engaging in intimacy, and building a history with your spouse can release the nature of Christ in your life! (6 weeks)
- Scale It Down Live It Up
Using biblical principles and sound health and nutrition techniques, we will lose weight, once and for all, in a way that honors God. This program includes nutrition tips, body image builders, health and fitness routines, a spiritual renewal plan and more! (8 weeks)
Purchase material (purchase Package A, $35).
Recovery
- Divorce Care for Adults
Find help and healing for the hurt of separation and divorce in a friendly, caring group of people who will walk alongside you through one of life’s most difficult experiences. Don’t go through separation or divorce alone. (13 weeks)
Workbook available at the Resource Center.
- Divorce Care for Kids
This special group offers to help your children heal from the pain caused by a separation or divorce. The program will provide your children with a safe and neutral place to recognize and learn that God’s love strengthens them and helps them turn their sadness to hope and their anger to joy. (13 weeks)
Workbook available at the Resource Center.
- Door of Hope
An encouraging and supportive program for women who have survived sexual abuse. (10 weeks)
Participant guide available at the Resource Center.
- Facing the Shadow
Addiction often begins when reality becomes too much to bear, so we try to escape through drugs, alcohol, or sex. This book focuses on the addictions that begin with television, advertising and the Internet. Stop the cycle now – get connected to men and build lasting friendships that will help you walk through recovery for life! (12 weeks)
Books will be available through the night of the small group.
- James Gang
12 step recovery group. (Year round)
- Laughter from Purity
For those who struggle with same sex attraction – to educate and to shatter our cultural “born gay” mantra. We will help you to thrive in incredible freedom and victory growing in an intimate relationship with the Lord. (Year round)
- Serenity Sisters (Family & Friends of Alcoholics/Addicts Inspired to Heal)
This women’s group is designed to help women who have a loved one that has a problem with addiction or alcoholism. (Year round)
- Set Free
The healing power of truth can help free individuals from destructive patterns of behavior. This group enables participants to handle emotions, deal with conflict, and overcome addictions. Practical application of biblical truth, prayer time, and supportive relationships is combined to help individuals find freedom and wholeness. (Year round)
Leadership
- Careforce Facilitator Training
This program designed to equip individuals and prepare them to lead a group at Celebration Church. This training is a requirement for anyone interested in leadership including leading a group at Celebration. (8 weeks)
Participant Guide available at the Resource Center.
Discipleship
- 300 with Pastor Stovall Weems
Become a part of a group of men that will have a huge impact on changing our city. Study the scriptures and grow together. (Year round)
- Can We Talk? Soul-stirring Conversations with God by Priscilla Shirer
Familiar spiritual disciplines are shared in a fresh, new method of teaching. As women respond to a variety of biblical passages, prompted by thought-provoking questions, they’ll develop a Christ-focused view on important issues while experiencing a closer walk with their Creator. (7 weeks)
- Celebration Sisterhood with Pastor Kerri Weems
This group is designed to inspire, exalt, and edify women to believe in the God-given potential they have and to know they are precious in God’s sight. (Year round)
- Chase the Goose
What if God wants something more than a safe and predictable life for those who love Him? Maybe life with Christ should be a little more like a wild goose chase… mysterious, unpredictable, and even dangerous. Through this study, young adults can take hold of the passions God has put in all of our hearts, while learning about the nature of God in the process. (6 weeks)
Buy Participant Guide (young adults).
- Divine Mentor - Life Journal
This study inspires men to grow in their walk with Jesus as they challenge and encourage each other. (Year round)
- Esther: It’s Tough Being a Woman
Join an in-depth and very personal examination of this great story of threat and deliverance. It is a profile in courage and contains many modern parallels for today’s woman. Esther’s destiny can be yours as you know more deeply the God who is in your corner. (9 weeks)
- Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear by Max Lucado
Imagine your life, untouched by fear. What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats? Learn how to draw from Jesus’ encounters with people in frightening situations and find the evidence that we can trust God through these scary times. (6 weeks)
- Knowing God Better
Have you always wanted to know God better? Wanted to go deeper in your walk with God and in your understanding of His truth? This series will help you know the character, values and love of God, in a more powerful and personal way. Experience what it’s like to fall deeply in love with the Lord. (4 weeks)
- Men’s Breakfast
Join other guys for a time of fellowship, prayer, and the Word of God as you enjoy a light breakfast. (Year round)
- Never Give Up by Joyce Meyer
This study will help you keep putting one foot in front of the other when you grow weary on your life’s journey. It will strengthen your faith in God’s ability to fulfill the dreams He has put in your heart. Failure becomes the fuel for greater determination to succeed when we never give up. (10 weeks)
- One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land by Priscilla Shirer
Join an exploration of the Israelites’ journey through the wilderness. Experience the abundant life God has waiting for you when you allow Him to take the lead in daily living. One in a Million is an opportunity for you to experience your deliverance. (7 weeks)
- Precept Upon Precept
Walk with Jesus through the towns and villages of Galilee; see the miracles He performs. Listen to His teaching as He explains His Kingdom. Then evaluate your life against the high standard Jesus holds and ask yourself: Does my life show that I’m part of His Kingdom? (7 weeks)
- Stepping Up: A Journey Through the Psalms of Ascent
Just as a song or poem can express feelings of fear, doubt, hope, and joy, these 15 psalms model how study participants can voice their own petitions and praises to our God, who is always available and ready to hear us. (7 weeks)
Participant guide available at the Resource Center.
- The Jesus I Never Knew
This journey will expand and redefine your understanding of the person, teachings, and life of Jesus Christ. Prepare yourself for the refreshing, unpredictable and life-changing encounters you will have with the Jesus of the Gospels. (6 weeks)
- The Best Question Ever: Learning to Foolproof Your Life
Prepare yourself – you are about to be introduced to a single question that will revolutionize the way you make decisions. This study will take you through the process of making wise decisions. (6 weeks)
Community Groups
- School of Life Groups
These are groups that minister to areas of life experience which consist of like skills, recovery and discipleship. Some of the groups have curriculum and are geared to cultivating an atmosphere of love and acceptance along with helping you to connect with God and build relationships. (Year Round)
- Message Based Groups
These groups are people just like you getting together to discuss the weekend’s message. Gathering on a weekly basis, these groups provide a place to build friendships, encourage each other and apply God’s Word to everyday situations. This is a great place to connect into groups at any time. (Year Round)