Life Groups

Life Groups

We’re excited to announce that LifeGroups will be restarting soon! To kick things off, we’re hosting a Life group Launch Evening on 17th September 2024. This is a chance to learn more about what LifeGroups are and what they offer . This coming season we will be using Tim Keller’s book on Romans and Grant will cover a little more about it on the launch night.

We will gather at Willem van Mechelen straat at 19:45 for coffee, tea, and cake, with the session starting at 20:00 and finishing by 21:45.

The Life Groups themselves will begin the coming weeks after this evening, each group hosting on a different evening and a different home. They provide opportunities to deepen your Bible knowledge, enjoy great fellowship, and connect with others at All Saints. Personally I’ve found Life groups have given me a truly supportive group of friends that I have bonded with deeper during each life group season. It’s become a safe space to be able to talk about the highs and lows of every day life, have good talks over the bible study, have moments of self reflection and to pray for each other. No matter how busy my week, I come back feeling refreshed and encouraged.

If you’re unsure whether or not to join, please come along on this first launch evening and see if it’s for you. We can see if there is a group that fits you and your weekly diary.

If you already know you would like to join a group, you can whatsapp message me (Hannah Koolstra).

See you there!!

At All Saints, we encourage our members to be part of a Life Group.

Our Life Groups are small communities – of about 6-8 people – with a facilitator.

They are a place of community, a space to share, to support, to learn from each other. They are a place of discipleship where we focus on a topic for each season – which roughly follows the calendar year (autumn, spring til Easter; post Easter til summer). We want to live increasingly Jesus shaped lives. And Life Groups are place where we pray with and for each other. We will always include time at the end where we can pray.

Would you like to join a Life Group?

We encourage all members to be part of a Life Group. Life Groups currently meet mostly in the evenings at someone’s home. One Life Group meets online on an evening, and there is one ‘morning groups’. It is possible to join a Life Group at anytime in the year.

Our Life Group coordinator is

Hannah Koolstra at info@allsaintsamersfoort.nl

Please contact her to know more or to join a Life Group.

What have we covered recently?

2022, we considered mission in a holistic sense.

At the start of 2022, we considered what is mission in a holistic sense. In particular we considered what is our responsibility to God’s Creation. We used a series of study materials and sessions provided by New Wine Netherlands called ‘Heel Het Leven’.

https://heelhetleven.new-wine.nl

We explored the difficult topic of ‘Unanswered Prayer’ using resources from the 24-7 Prayer movement.

https://unanswered.prayercourse.org/

2023 we studied Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, using materials from Tim Keller.

Then we followed an Anglican resource called ‘Beautiful Lives’ which talks practically about how to share our Christian faith with non-believers.

2024. So far we have been studying the letter of 1 Corinthians (https://www.thegoodbook.co.uk/1-corinthians-the-grace-changed-church).

We encourage you to join a Life Group if you can!