Introduction
Are you looking for a place on a Monday evening to experience enjoyable, uplifting, Christ-centered fellowship with other believers in Christ? If that is your desire, that’s great because that is the purpose of the bible study fellowship at Calvary Chapel called “The Single Life”.
Goal
The ongoing goal of our bible studies is to develop and nurture an atmosphere in which everyone feels comfortable and safe to hear, learn, and discuss God's Word the bible! This atmosphere lends itself to creating opportunities to display caring compassion and encouragement as we make and foster Christian friendships growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
History
Calvary Chapel Church in Lebanon has a passion for people. The church reaches out to people in the city and the county to show them the love of Christ. Our church is blessed with many ministries that touch people's lives. One area that was a desire of the leadership at Calvary Chapel of Lebanon was to minister to adult singles. Adults singles are folks who are divorced, widowed, never married, or separated. Often times after a single person is out of the "college and career age" category entering their mid-twenties or later, the opportunities to connect with others in various ways in church diminish. We felt led by the Lord to address this matter.
In late winter of 2013 after careful planning with creating a structure and composing a document for the group about how the ministry would function, the church leadership gave its blessing to the creation of The Single Life ministry. We started with a leadership team of 5 people with a passion for singles! We had the first of many meetings together starting in April of 2013.
We decided to focus on social fellowship events for believers to enjoy with other believers in a Christ honoring fashion. We had an event once a month for about two years. I smiled as I watched the passion of the singles leadership taking the time to connect with singles who attended events. The leadership team is such a blessing to be working with for me as their leader.
In 2014, we decided to periodically have a bible study "event" in the church library mixed in as one of our monthly events. Our first bible study was Snack on the Word and some Food too! We had pizza or other food along with snacks. Our first few bible studies were topics geared towards single adults.
As time passed we decided to focus on the Bible Study aspect of the ministry. We chose to move the bible study from Saturday night at the church library to the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month at Dairy Queen East in Lebanon, PA. We shifted the focus of our bible study from being topical to going verse by verse through an entire book of the bible to have a fuller, deeper, more complete study of the bible.
We start at 6:30 having a time of fellowship chatting with the option to pick up a sweet treat at DQ! We normally start the bible study by 6:40 pm and finish slightly after 8 pm.
In late winter of 2013 after careful planning with creating a structure and composing a document for the group about how the ministry would function, the church leadership gave its blessing to the creation of The Single Life ministry. We started with a leadership team of 5 people with a passion for singles! We had the first of many meetings together starting in April of 2013.
We decided to focus on social fellowship events for believers to enjoy with other believers in a Christ honoring fashion. We had an event once a month for about two years. I smiled as I watched the passion of the singles leadership taking the time to connect with singles who attended events. The leadership team is such a blessing to be working with for me as their leader.
In 2014, we decided to periodically have a bible study "event" in the church library mixed in as one of our monthly events. Our first bible study was Snack on the Word and some Food too! We had pizza or other food along with snacks. Our first few bible studies were topics geared towards single adults.
As time passed we decided to focus on the Bible Study aspect of the ministry. We chose to move the bible study from Saturday night at the church library to the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month at Dairy Queen East in Lebanon, PA. We shifted the focus of our bible study from being topical to going verse by verse through an entire book of the bible to have a fuller, deeper, more complete study of the bible.
We start at 6:30 having a time of fellowship chatting with the option to pick up a sweet treat at DQ! We normally start the bible study by 6:40 pm and finish slightly after 8 pm.
Ongoing
We plan to keep our focus on bible study, but would like to do more social events for those who attend the bible study. If you are a person who has a "gift" for planning and organizing events like picnics, concerts, etc for all of us to enjoy, feel free to exercise your gift in our bible study! If this interests you, please email me at [email protected] or call me, Mike, at 717-471-5241.