“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.)
Summer 2025 Offering
It's not exactly the center of the Bible, but it's close (that's Psalm 118:8 if you were wondering). And what do you find when you turn to the almost center of the Bible? A very long Psalm that in nearly all 176 verses (171 by most accounts) Scripture is mentioned. At the heart of the Bible we find in noticeable repetition that it is God's word that is holding it all together. We want to spend time reflecting on this lengthy Psalm this summer.
Why “8 verses” you ask? In each of the 22 sections of Psalm 119 (22 sections for the 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet) you have 8 verses in each section. Though it would be fun to do all 22 sections over 22 different sessions, we are just going to give you a taste of Psalm 119 by choosing 6. It's summer by the way!
We will offer both a morning and evening session where both will be virtual. The content for each group will be identical. Unlike our groups in the fall and the spring, these two summer groups will be blended with both ministry leaders and laity. You are welcome to go between the groups as your time permits. Though we would love to see you at all 6 sessions, our summer series is meant to be an easy group to pop in as you can to get a taste of what we offer at Peterson House. So tell others about it and have them join you! Summer in North Carolina is HOT so “unhurried delight” with anything sounds fitting.
8:30-9:30AM EST Group CLICK HERE to join the morning session.
7:30-8:30PM EST Group CLICK HERE to join the evening session.
The 6 sessions will meet on:
Wednesday, June 18
Wednesday, June 25
Wednesday, July 9
Wednesday, July 16
Wednesday, July 23
Wednesday, July 30
Please email John if you would like to learn more.
Winter/Spring 2025 Groups
Have you ever paused to notice that the Bible begins in a garden and ends in a garden? In the midst of God's creative forming and shaping of the earth and living creatures in Genesis, God's creative work takes on the form of a Master Gardener who plants a garden. "And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed," Genesis 2:8. If you turn to the last chapter of the last book in our Scriptures, in John's Revelation, his vision ends with a river flowing from the throne of God and the Lamb beside which the Tree of Life grows, the same that was planted in the Garden of Eden, providing crops and healing in it's leaves for the nations. Our Scriptures start in a garden and end in a garden, and in between these pages gardens and garden imagery abound throughout the rest of Scripture.
In our Peterson House Groups this Winter/Spring, we will be exploring the theme of "In the Garden" as we walk through passages that are either set in a garden, from the Garden of Eden to the Garden of Gethsemane, as well as passages that use the image of a garden to speak to us about our own lives and our life with God. Please join us as we spend some unhurried space "In the Garden."
