The Christian life is meant to be a shared life. We are called to encourage one another to love and good deeds (Heb. 10:25), to carry one another’s burdens (Gal. 6:2), and to exercise our spiritual gifts for the building up of the body of Christ, the church. We have found a smaller group context than our Sunday gatherings to be essential for our members in living out the “one anothers” of Scripture.

Grace Covenant Church calls these groups of 10 to 20 individuals “Home Groups”. These groups meet two or three times a month to ask one another about the challenges of our daily lives. Our goal is to seek and find, through prayer and Bible study, how God is working in us and through us as we face the tests of life. This involves not only prayer, counsel, and encouragement, but also helping one another with practical needs such as meals for a family with a newborn or networking to help an individual locate a job. The groups are strategically located geographically so that members can become inter knit in one another’s lives resulting in fun, informal get-togethers and the formation of long-term friendships.