Adult Education (Sunday School)
Expand your understanding; deepen your walk with Christ. Join with other disciples for an upcoming Adult Education course!
Adult Education courses are offered every Sunday morning from mid-September through May. Normally two courses are offered during the 9:30am block; one or two during the 11:00 am block. A course dedicated to Young Adults meets during the 9:30am block.
Your questions or suggestions for future topics are always welcome! Contact Adult Ministries Pastor Dave Dickey.
The Adult Education department offers a balanced study sequence that includes courses in: Bible book / Theology, Christian Living, Marriage & Family, Current Issues.
Our spiritual formation here at Emmanuel is enriched through having a number of teachers gifted and experienced in the unique challenges and approaches of instructing adults.
NEW Courses ~ Jan 8 – Mar 25, 2012
Block 1 9:30 – 10:30 am
The Epistles of Peter and Jude
facilitator Dave Johnson in the Gym
The course will discuss the meaning and contemporary relevance of these three epistles addressed to the subtly and not-so-subtly persecuted church in a non-Christian world. How should we handle suffering? How should we handle heresies? Where is the truth to be found? Above all, how should the church witness to the wonderful grace of God in the grace-less world of today?
Impromptu Prayer Group
facilitator Myra Gerbrandt in Room 304
For some of you that sounds about as exciting as watching paint dry. Some of your experiences with prayer have often been routine and disappointing, and, if you’re honest, a little boring. Yet somehow you know that there must be more to this prayer thing……..
What if God wants to revolutionize our experience? What if He has something new to show us about prayer and praying together? What if He wants us to regularly experience the purpose, presence and power of Jesus Christ in our midst –starting right now?!
We’ll discuss, we’ll try out different types of prayer, we’ll learn from each other, we’ll learn from the Holy Spirit, and we’ll simply pray together.
Young Adults
facilitator Dave Dickey & Curtis Krahn Board Room
Faith Intersects Cultural Challenges Living in our society brings significant challenges to our pursuit of God’s plans for our lives. But with these challenges we also find great opportunities to honour God. We’ll address five specific challenges: excess, impurity, social injustice, prejudice, and poverty. How do we live out our faith in everyday life?
Discover Emmanuel
facilitator David Rafeedie Room 301
(NOTE this is a 6 session series Feb 6 through Mar 11)
If you are fairly new to Emmanuel and would like to know what makes us “tick” then Discover Emmanuel is for you. Our class will be an informal and fun time together where you will have the opportunity to learn details about us and our ministries, ask any questions you might have, and connect with others who are new to Emmanuel too.
Block 2 11:00am – noon
Going Right in a
Culture Gone Wrong
facilitator Joyce Goertzen Room 302
Where do you get your bearings in a culture gone awry? Do your thoughts and lifestyle endorse the popular culture, or exhibit the biblical counterpart? Many people around us simultaneously abuse and worship the body. Much of our culture is obsessed with sex and sensuality. Some persons are treated as expendable, or inconvenient, others are shunned because they’re ‘different from us’, or less well off. This study of selected Old and New Testament passages points the way to a life trasnformed by God’s Spirit.
