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Home Groups

... meet in various people's homes around the area to study the Bible together, pray and to socialise. They meet every couple of weeks at different times and on different days to suit different people. If you would like to join a Home Groups one of the Staff will be able to advise you which one might be best for you.

The Groups aim to have between 10 and 12 members with 2 leaders and a host. 

The purpose of Home Groups is to build up, encourage and deepen people's faith, and to build relationships.

It is in small groups that many people can express and deepen their faith in a safe and secure environment.

They provide a chance for people to get to know one another in a deeper way, developing friendships with each other and God, in a relaxed and unthreatening atmosphere.

'For this reason I fall on my knees before the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth receives its true name. 

I ask God from the wealth of his glory to give you power through his Spirit to be strong in your inner selves, and I pray that Christ will make his home in your hearts through faith. 

I pray that you may have your roots and foundation in love, so that you, together with all God's people, may have the power to understand how broad and long, how high and deep, is Christ's love. 
Yes, may you come to know his love - although it can never be fully known - and so completely filled with the very nature of God.' Eph 3: 14-21

You may like to look up some more examples of this in the New Testament.'

Meeting of Believers - Acts 1:15
Spiritual gifts, developing and building the Church - 1 Cor 14:12
Built up on Christ as the Foundation Stone - Eph 2:22
Maturity, working together - Eph 4:13,16
Speaking to one another - Eph 5:19
Deep roots in Christ - Col 2:7
Building the spiritual temple - 1 Peter 2
Habit of meeting together - Heb 10:25