“I can’t imagine someone really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
– C.S. Lewis
Ministry Leaders Groups
Sure. You read it every week. Maybe? Hopefully every day? But how might reading the Bible together with other colleagues who are in ministry settings help enrich your lens, and maybe, how you teach and preach about this text? Like most things at Peterson House, this is simple and all you need to do is sign up and show up. We will gather together in a group of no more than 12 people and see how the Bible can inspire us and the ministry we do committed to the kingdom work in different places.
We want to create space to help tend to the ministry leaders soul care where they can be served/have the text washed over them in order to care for those they have been called to love. We are committed to creating contemplative space for these ministry leaders where alongside others, in unhurried delight, the Sprit of Truth empowers them to serve faithfully.
(Our in person ministry leaders group will include a simple meal.)
Fall 2026 Groups
Our groups will start on Tuesday, September 29. There will be a total of 6 sessions.
Available Groups:
Tuesday Midday In Person Ministry Leader Group meets from 11:30-1:30 at Journey Community Church at 114 Weaver Dairy Rd in Chapel Hill. Lunch is included.
Tuesday Afternoon In Person Square One Group meets from 4:30-6 at Journey Community Church.
Thursday Virtual Ministry Leader Group meets from 9-10AM EST. (Thursday groups will start on October 1)
Thursday Virtual Square One Group from 7-8PM EST.
Our aim is to provide unhurried delight in Scripture which is never contingent on your perfect attendance. We will be here offering it however you are able to participate. You are welcome to try a session or two if that is what you need to see if it is a good fit for you. Your signing up does not suggest every session is compulsory, but to be clear what we have noticed in 6+ years offering these small groups is the more you show up the deeper you go. If you have any questions about this series or the groups please reach out to us in response to this email or clicking the sign up button below. Our groups are all free of cost.
As I read the part of Acts that recounts Paul's time in Corinth during his second missionary journey, where he spent 18 months, I don't know if that was ever his plan. I would imagine not given how he nurtured other churches around this area of the Mediterranean. Paul would drop in and check on things, might get arrested, check in on some young leaders and converts, and then be on his way to the next town. However, Paul's relationship with the church in Corinth was different. 18 months is a long time. A lot can happen in 18 months. People get to know each other in 18 months. And if Paul was going to convey the gospel in a town like Corinth he must have learned a lot about the Corinthians and this rebuilt Roman outpost with all its quirks and idiosyncrasies to do so. So if he spent all of this time there in the mid part of the first century and soon thereafter heard that the theological wheels had gotten knocked off the rails, well it might have hit a little harder than hearing a new unknown god was being worshipped in Athens.
As much as the casual reader thinks of Corinthians (who may only be familiar with 1 Corinthians 13 and has a poor understanding of whose love is even being discussed there) the Corinthian correspondence is the response of a deeply invested leader doing his best to draw this church back to its center. Not him. Not Apollos. Not Peter. To Jesus. Crystal clear. In matters of faith and living. Yes, Corinth in the first century had its own particular issues that may sound foreign to us, but what we can observe is that our current church is no less influenced to assimilate into its own culture than it was in 52 AD in Corinth. Can Paul speak into this?
An appearance of foolishness does not suggest an inability to understand. I don't think so at least. Rather, I think it speaks loud and clear to a stubbornness to welcome what will truly set us free. Where does the Lord want to offer you clarity in the life you are living or ministry you have been called to lead? We would love to have you join us as we sit with these texts and experience the transformative power of what comes when we linger over the text together.
Winter/Spring 2026 Groups
So who is David? Not the one we have dreamed up or narrowed to one particular text or even a good movie clip, but who is the young boy shepherd to bewildered king of Israel who lived a real life attempting to be faithful to the God who called him? Given the amount of material we have from and about David in Scripture we have the chance to sit with a large scope of his life. Though we are not being called to lead God’s people in the same context as David, we are attempting to respond to God’s call upon our own lives.
