Ministry
Community Groups
Forty groups meeting in homes across Maplewood. Dinner tables, honest conversation, and people who notice when you are gone.
Sundays are where Fernbrook gathers. Groups are where Fernbrook lives. More than forty Community Groups meet in homes across Maplewood, sharing dinner, studying Sunday's passage, and carrying each other's weeks.
Groups are the first place meals get organized, moves get helped, and hospital waiting rooms get company. If you want to know whether this church is real, join a group for a month.
Groups of 8 to 14, most meet every other week
Dinner first, always
A discussion built on Sunday's teaching, no homework
Nobody is made to read aloud or pray out loud
Childcare is figured out group by group, and it works
Fill out the Plan Your Visit form and check Community Groups.
Ruth Calloway will match you to a group near you within a week.
Try it for a month before you decide anything.
Switch groups freely. The right fit matters more than the first fit.
Check Community Groups on the Plan Your Visit form and Ruth will match you with a group near you within a week, usually one that shares your season of life. Try it for a month. If the fit is wrong, switching groups is normal and nobody is offended.
No. Plenty of people spend their first months in a group mostly listening, and that is completely fine. Nobody will call on you to read, share, or pray out loud. Come for the dinner and stay at whatever pace works.