Adult Bible Fellowships and Electives
Adult Bible Fellowships are more than Sunday School. Adult: Each class is open to all ages, but they are age sensitive in order to meet their special needs. Bible: They major on the teaching and application of the word of God in their lives. Fellowship: They also focus on relationships and caring love for one another. From time to time we offer electives as well which are open to all ages.
Starting in the Fall of 2009
Old Testament Characters
Meets Sunday mornings downstairs at 9:30 a.m.
Leadership for the class: Matthew Harger, Elise Harshbarger, Mary Lovett, Sean McKibben, Meggan Payne, Jason Padvorac and Doug Ranney
This fall marked the beginning of a new Sunday School class focused on college age and young adults. It meets downstairs at 9:30 am on Sunday morning. We began the year looking at Old Testament characters, some familiar and some not often studied. Samson, Abigail, Absalom, Rehoboam, Naaman, Gehazi, Jabez, Uzziah, Ester and Jonah each had stories to tell and lessons for us to learn.
The class is built on lively discussion where each participant is encouraged to share their thoughts and how the class lesson challenges them. As we move into the new year we will be looking at Questions Christians Ask. Throughout life there are questions that emerge in everyone’s mind. Children are known for asking lots of questions but the questions don’t stop as we grow older. They may change and focus on deeper issues but we continue to ask questions. We will be looking at twelve questions and see what insights Scripture gives us in answering them.
All ages welcome
2 Samuel
Meets Sunday mornings at 9:30 a.m. in the Social Hall Overflow
Boomers Sunday School Class
Leader: Andy Padvorac & Members of the Class
The purpose of the Boomers class is to “grow adults God’s way.” It is a place to grow adult friendships, study the Bible, plan outside activities and care for each other (and eat snacks!).
A typical Sunday morning meeting begins with “chat time” to catch up on news with each other, then we pray for each other, and have a lesson. The job of teaching the lesson is shared by class members. The study guides are on books of the Bible or topics of Christian life. The teaching session is participatory and works best when everyone shares their thoughts.
According to Wikipedia, a Baby Boomer is a person born during the Post-World War II baby boom. Well, describe us last year, when our group included Christians of college age, retired folks, and everything in between. We were visited by spouses, out-of-town family and first time visitors to Rose Hill. Pastor Bill provided a short series on key doctrines of the Presbyterian Church. We spent the rest of the year studying 1 Samuel and half of 2 Samuel. Class members who have traveled to the Holy Land educated us about the geography and current politics. In our discussions we met men and women of faith, discipline and integrity. We saw the results of people submitting their daily activities to God’s higher plans and on the other hand the results of people being blindly driven by selfish ambition or fear. Various members of the Boomers class took turns leading our discussions, which added richness to the content that one single teacher could not hope to provide. Outside of Sunday mornings, we volunteered at Food Life Line, saw a play in Bellevue, and did other fun and rewarding activities together. Our prayer times lifted up praises to Jesus for answered prayers, and intercession for aging parents and illnesses, co-workers and neighbors, those who govern us and for our beloved Rose Hill Congregation as we transition toward a new Senior Pastor. It was a very good year in Boomers!
Andy Padvorac
All ages welcome
3:16, The Numbers of Hope
Meets Sunday mornings at 9:30 a.m. in the Library
Berean Sunday School Class
Leader: Steve Smith
Who would think a child of God could spend an entire year studying a single verse from the Bible? Yet, take a group of people, young and old, who daily seek the Lord and desire to have a closer walk with Him and that describes our 2009/2010 Bereans’ Sunday School class. Max Lucado’s 3:16, The Numbers of Hope is opening our hearts and eyes to what Jesus was trying to tell Nicodemus in the most significant conversation in the Bible. It proclaims a message of love, a source of hope and a promise of life. One sentence, softly spoken nearly 2000 years ago is just as relevant today as it was when Jesus first shared it in a dimly lit room in Jerusalem. Max says, “If you know nothing of the Bible, start here. If you know everything in the Bible, return here.” If you desire to know more of God’s love, desire to have a closer walk with the Lord, enjoy lively and heated conversation in an atmosphere of acceptance, come and join us. Experience what Paul was encouraging us to do when he commanded us to have “fellowship with the saints.” God has a prescription for the medicine our hearts need: “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Come and take a dose of medicine with us as we seek to grow in grace and knowledge. Sundays, 9:30am.
All ages welcome