Ministries
At Walnut Creek United Methodist Church we offer many opportunities for your spiritual growth. The journey you travel on can go in many directions. One minute you may can be knitting a prayer shawl for someone suffering a loss or celebrating a new birth and the next week you may be attending a forum on the death penalty. The following are some of the spiritual formation classes we have offered:
Christian Believer
The goal of CHRISTIAN BELIEVER is to make available to people the substance of the Christian faith that the church has confessed as a way of connecting to God and living faithfully. This thirty-week study of the classical doctrines of the Christian faith aims at presenting, explaining, and interpreting Christian doctrine as the basic teaching of the church to the end that informed believing leads to committed discipleship. We did this study in 2008-2009 and will not be offering it this year.
Disciple Bible Study
During the course of thirty-four weeks, groups will move through the biblical stories of Creation to the New Jerusalem. The titles of the sessions along with theme words; theme verses; and major persons, events, and topics will set the sequence of the biblical story in the minds of the participants. The principal Scripture for each session follows the chronological movement of the biblical story.
We try and offer this study once a year.
Stephen Ministry
Are you going through a Difficult Time?
Stephen Ministers are members of our congregation who listen, care, encourage, and provide emotional and spiritual support to people who are facing a crisis or going through difficult times. The care you'll receive is confidential, free, and very helpful.
Stephen Ministers Care!
Stephen Ministers are members of our congregation who receive special training to provide one-to-one Christian care to people in our congregation and community who are experiencing grief, loneliness, divorce, hospitalization, disability, job loss, and many other life difficulities.
To learn how to become-or receive care from-a Stephen Minister please talk to Pastor Eileen Lindsay or call the church office.
Stephen Ministry
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Healing Touch
What is Healing Touch?
Healing Touch is a compassionate therapy in which practitioners use their hands in a heart-centered and intentional way to support and facilitate your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health and self-healing.
The goal of Healing Touch is to restore harmony and balance by creating an optimal environment for the body's enate tendency for healing to occur.
Healing Touch Pracitioners complete a rigorous training program and abide by a professional Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics.
One hour sessions are offered Thursday mornings and Sunday afternoons.