Grand Rapids Evangelical Free Church

Grand Rapids, MN

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Community Groups

 

 

Life is better in community.

While Sunday morning church services are an important gathering time, it’s hard to know how someone is really doing if you only see them for a few minutes in passing once a week.

We want people to experience real life-on-life discipleship – with all the laughter and mess, joy and pain, extraordinary and mundane that goes with it. Which is why we encourage everyone to be in a community group.

In a community group you can expect:

  • To share a meal together – conversation shared over a meal helps people relax and share more of their life.
  • To enjoy each other – through conversation, prayer and having fun. Save the studying for a separate time.
  • To leave an open seat – these groups are intended to be a place where those who don’t know Jesus or don’t go to church would feel welcome. Invite people.  Expect to grow.
  • To be a blessing – as Christians, we’re called to bless others. Each group finds a way to love and bless those around them.

 

DNA Groups:  Discipleship—Nurturing— Accountability

This is where the studying comes in.  DNA groups form within each community group, men with the men and women with the women. DNA groups:

  • Meet regularly and separately from the main group
  • Disciple one another through bible studies, mentoring, and book studies
  • Encourage each other
  • Help one another grow in the Word
  • Hold one another accountable
  • Train each other to serve in tangible ways
  • Pray for one another
  • Point everyone to Jesus

Get a “Taste of Community Groups”

We regularly offer a Taste of Community Groups event.  The best way to learn about a community group is to experience one in a home setting while being able to ask all the questions you may have.   Once you’ve experienced a Taste of Community Group, you’ll know more what to expect and we will know better how to get you into a current group or incorporate you into a new group.  Or maybe you’ll want to start one of your own.

If you are interested in joining a community group or attending the next Taste of Community Groups, you can sign up online or call/email Michelle Schwake, Community Groups Administrator.

Contact:  Michelle Schwake | 952-240-0903

 

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Welcome to GREFC

Welcome. We’re so glad you’re here. We are a Christian church in Grand Rapids, MN.   Everyone here is like you. We have joy, we have fears that keep us up at night, we experience pain, we face challenges, and we’re all searching for love. We don’t have all the answers. But we do know someone who has the answers we’re all seeking and we do know how our story ends. If you would like that for yourself, then walk through this site and learn more about us.  Thanks for visiting and we hope you come back often.

Living On Mission

1 Peter 2:9 through 3:16 talks about living in a hostile world and living your daily lives as though you are missionaries in a foreign land. That is the basis for our community groups.

Sermons

Watch the video
December 1, 2019 Bulletin
Explore the Entire Sermon Library

Location

Church Office: 218-327-9343

34384 County Road 63
Grand Rapids, MN 55744

GREFC Blog

  • The Season is Here December 4, 2019
  • The Challenges of Church – Part 2 November 8, 2019
  • The Challenges of Church November 8, 2019
  • Will You Pray? September 10, 2019
  • A Conversation About Conversations August 7, 2019

Service Schedule

Sunday Worship Services
9:00 am & 10:30 am
Nursery available both hours
for ages 1-36 months.

Pathfinders 1.0  
9:00 am (Ages 3 to Grade 1)

Pathfinders 2.0  
10:30 am (Ages 3 to Grade 5)

BRICK Bible Foundations
10:30 am (Grades 6 & 7)

Office Hours
Mon: Office Closed
Tues: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Wed: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Thurs: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Fri: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Sat – Sun: Office Closed

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