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Life Groups for Winter 2010 You are invited to accept the Life Group Challenge and join with a small group of folks from the congregation to share in fellowship, Bible study, sermon discussion, and prayer. Sign-ups for Winter 2010, will start December 27, and the groups will begin meeting the week of January 10, and continue for six weeks. There are groups meeting in the early morning, at noon, in the late afternoon, and in the evening. Check out the schedule below and find a group that will work for you. WINTER LIFE GROUP SCHEDULE Tuesday Morning men’s group, 7:30-8:30 am starts Jan. 12 Leaders: Gordon Hess and Peter Buehler Location: Church, Anderson Lounge Morning women’s group. 7:00-8 am starts Jan. 12 Leader: Kati Buehler Location: Church, CFC Wednesday Open to all. Noon - 1 pm -- starts Jan. 13 Group Leader: Pastor Peter Buehler Location: American Riviera Bank, 1033 Anacapa Hosted by Michelle Martinich Open to all. 7-8:30 pm -- starts Jan. 13 Leaders: Gordon and Sandy Hess Location: Hess home Thursday Women’s Group, 4-5:30 pm -- starts Jan. 14 Leader: Esther Bennett Location: Church, Anderson Lounge Open to all, 7-8:30 pm – starts Jan. 14 Leader: Meryle Gaston Location: Maravilla, Hosted by the DuCharmes For additional information, contact Don or Esther Bennett. 569-2728 or don.bennett@cox.net	Questions for Sermons: Life Group Questions for Week of February 14, 2010 Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:12 – 4:2 (Exodus 34:29-35 and Luke 9:28-36 provide a helpful context for Paul’s argument in 2 Corinthians) Sermon: "With Unveiled Faces” Which family member – parent, sibling, grandparent, or other – do you most resemble? Whose face do you have? If there’s time, read the Exodus and Luke passages, then read the 2 Corinthians text. What thoughts or questions come to mind? Paul argues that “keeping the law” is “the end of the glory that was being set aside,” while following the Spirit “is freedom.” What freedom do you find in Christian faith? Is “law” – such as the Ten Commandments (found in Exodus 20) – important? Paul claims that Christians “are being transformed into the same image (the Lord’s) from one degree of glory to another” (2 Cor. 2:18). How do you understand this transformation? Does a transformed person look different? How are you being transformed? How have you changed in recent months or years? What role should the church play in transforming people’s lives? What is First Presbyterian Church’s greatest challenge today? What part do you feel called to play?

Life Groups

Life Groups for Winter 2010

You are invited to accept the Life Group Challenge and join with a small group of folks from the congregation to share in fellowship, Bible study, sermon discussion, and prayer. Sign-ups for Winter 2010, will start December 27, and the groups will begin meeting the week of January 10, and continue for six weeks.
There are groups meeting in the early morning, at noon, in the late afternoon, and in the evening. Check out the schedule below and find a group that will work for you.
WINTER LIFE GROUP SCHEDULE
Tuesday
Morning men’s group, 7:30-8:30 am starts Jan. 12
Leaders: Gordon Hess and Peter Buehler
Location: Church, Anderson Lounge
Morning women’s group. 7:00-8 am starts Jan. 12
Leader: Kati Buehler
Location: Church, CFC
Wednesday
Open to all. Noon - 1 pm -- starts Jan. 13
Group Leader: Pastor Peter Buehler
Location: American Riviera Bank, 1033 Anacapa
Hosted by Michelle Martinich
Open to all. 7-8:30 pm -- starts Jan. 13
Leaders: Gordon and Sandy Hess
Location: Hess home
Thursday
Women’s Group, 4-5:30 pm -- starts Jan. 14
Leader: Esther Bennett
Location: Church, Anderson Lounge

Open to all, 7-8:30 pm – starts Jan. 14
Leader: Meryle Gaston
Location: Maravilla, Hosted by the DuCharmes
For additional information, contact Don or Esther Bennett. 569-2728 or don.bennett@cox.net

Questions for Sermons:

Life Group Questions for Week of February 14, 2010
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:12 – 4:2 (Exodus 34:29-35 and Luke 9:28-36 provide a helpful context for Paul’s argument in 2 Corinthians)
Sermon: "With Unveiled Faces”

Which family member – parent, sibling, grandparent, or other – do you most resemble? Whose face do you have?
If there’s time, read the Exodus and Luke passages, then read the 2 Corinthians text. What thoughts or questions come to mind?
Paul argues that “keeping the law” is “the end of the glory that was being set aside,” while following the Spirit “is freedom.” What freedom do you find in Christian faith? Is “law” – such as the Ten Commandments (found in Exodus 20) – important?
Paul claims that Christians “are being transformed into the same image (the Lord’s) from one degree of glory to another” (2 Cor. 2:18). How do you understand this transformation? Does a transformed person look different?
How are you being transformed? How have you changed in recent months or years?
What role should the church play in transforming people’s lives?
What is First Presbyterian Church’s greatest challenge today? What part do you feel called to play?

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