Adult Educational Opportunities
Sunday Mornings: 10:20 a.m. to 11:10 a.m. throughout the program year

LEARNING DISCIPLES (Room 111): Join our Learning Disciples discussion group to learn more about our bible and understand its meaning in our lives. The group uses biblically-oriented resource materials that generate questions motivating discussion and interaction. The discussions increase our understanding and help us grow in faith. This group welcomes new participants regardless of their knowledge level.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES BOOK GROUP (Room 112): This group discusses books that deal with modern scholarship regarding Christianity, theology and scripture. You will enjoy this class if you have a symbolic (rather than a literal/factual) understanding of religious traditions and the Bible, and if you want to gain knowledge and insight. We engage in unstructured discussions of the reading material in an accepting and open atmosphere, and the responsibility for leading the discussion rotates among members

FAITH MATTERS (Room 113): This is a new Sunday morning offering, exploring a faith response to many of today’s current events and life experiences. Each week will have its own focus, using Scripture, book or news resources, and personal stories. This is a “drop-in” friendly forum for those seeking to grow personally as well as within the WPC community.                                                                                          

FAITH IN THE HEADLINES (Library): This diverse group meets weekly and discusses various newsworthy events in our city and around the world. Come chat about events important to you and how they relate to our lives as Christians. 

Tuesday, March 23 at 7:15 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall
"Laughing at Evil: Reflections on Hope,
Faith and Humor in the 21st Century"
Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Jacqueline Bussie,
Associate Professor of Religion at Capital University

Dr. Jacqueline Bussie's first book, The Laughter of the Oppressed (2007), on which she will lecture on March 23, won the national Trinity Prize for promising new writers of religion. Her research and teaching interests include Problem of Evil studies, Christian Ethics, religion and literature, faith and popular culture, and service-learning. In the last two years, she has taken students to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and South Africa on service-learning trips. Dr. Bussie will have copies of her award winning book "Laughter of the Oppressed" available for purchase and signing.

     An excerpt from "Laughter of the Oppressed": “My work began with a simple question prompted by Dietrich Bonhoeffer's reflections on standing in solidarity with the oppressed: Where is the theological consideration of laughter 'from below,' 'from the perspective of the outcast, the mistreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled – in short, from the perspective of those who suffer'?"

     Dessert and coffee is provided. Admission is free and open to the public. All are welcome!

  OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

LENTEN STUDY: Pastor DeYoe will be teaching our Lenten Study entitled Job and the Life of Faith. The class begins Sunday, February 14 to Sunday, March 28 at 4:00-6:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. The study book is $18.00. Sign up in the Fellowship Hall on Sundays or in the church office before February 7.