Kinship Groups
We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to join one of our Fall 2012 kinships. If you have never been in a Vineyard Kinship before, you are in for a great experience this fall.
There are some great reasons to join a group:
1. Weekly bible discussion & worship will help you grow in your faith;
2. Prayer and encouragement from others is great when going through tough times;
3. It is a great way to meet some new friends and have some fun together.
4. They are simply the best way to get connected here @ the Vineyard!
Our fall kinships start up the week of September 16th and go through the mid-December. So we encourage you to sign up today!
Sign up below or on Sunday morning.
TRUMANSBURG kinship
Tuesdays at 6 pm
leaders: Josh and Shanna Swartwood
Living Lives of Gratitude The men in the group will be reading through From Prison To Praise and Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach To Life In Fullness. The women in the group will be reading through 1000 Gifts We’ll be experimenting with trying to live our lives in fullness through redirecting ourselves in gratitude. We’ll be recording things that we can be grateful for in journals and sharing in life together. This is a child-friendly kinship.
East Hill kinship
Wednesdays at 6:30 pm
leader: James Cherian
Frustration & False Gods (by Convergence) We will enter into conversation with Donald Miller as he talks with Dan Allender and Tremper Longman III (Breaking the Idols of Your Heart, Intimate Allies) and they answer questions about the frustrations and disappointments of life and how the Gospel enables us to live well in a fallen world.
Childcare Provided.
TRIPHAMMER kinship
Wednesdays at 6:30 pm
leader: Erin Smith
Trusting Jesus as God During our kinship we will be reading the book The Christian Atheist by Craig Groeschel. Each week we will talk about topics from the book: knowing God, relationships, money, sex, dealing with worry and anxiety, etc. If you don’t like reading, don’t worry, the discussions will be open enough that you don’t need to read along. We are more interested in creating a space to make friends, pray for one another, talk about some fun topics, and hang out.
CORTLAND kinship
Wednesdays at 6pm (dinner at 6, Study at 7)
leaders: John Poli
Topic TBD
GROTON kinship
Thursdays at 6pm
leader: Darin LeBlanc
Hearing From the Holy Spirit This kinship will be loosely based on The God I Never Knew and focus on hearing from the Holy Spirit. There will be extended worship time and childcare is provided.
DAYTIME kinship
Thursdays at 10:30 am
leaders: Jon & Sam Bree
Personal Growth (This will be a companion to our message series, Grow UP!) This will be a bible study based on the conversations between Donald Miller and Henry Cloud about spiritual and personal growth, discussing questions like: Why is it important to have community to help us grow? Why is it hard to be vulnerable? How do I set boundaries for myself? How do painful experiences help us grow?
LANSING kinship
Fridays at 7 pm
leaders: Mike Heisler
The Message and The Ministry 700 years before Jesus the prophet Isaiah wrote these words: “The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.” Jesus himself declares that he is the fulfillment of this prophecy. Our discussions will revolve around the message and ministry of Jesus as shown in the book of Luke. Discussing what Jesus did and how we should live in light of that.
Saturday kinship
Saturdays at 10:00 am
leaders: Ron Lau
Personal Growth (This will be a companion to our message series, Grow UP!) This will be a bible study based on the conversations between Donald Miller and Henry Cloud about spiritual and personal growth, discussing questions like: Why is it important to have community to help us grow? Why is it hard to be vulnerable? How do I set boundaries for myself? How do painful experiences help us grow?
