Current Groups and Classes
See what others are saying about groups:
Winter 2010
(starts the end of January)
- Have questions? Learn more here about how groups and classes work.
Volleyball Group
- Coordinators: Michael Hampton and Susan Dehm
- Schedule: Friday evenings
- Location: Columbus Elementary School Gym, 1600 SW Fellows Street (map)
- Ages: Adults & high school youth
- Cost: Free
Church league volleyball is back! No experience required - we can teach you the basics of playing volleyball in this fun, "casually competitive" environment. Sign up to join the mailing list and get the schedule of games this winter.
Moms Activity Group
- Coordinator: Hanna DeMaster
- Schedule: Friday mornings from 10:00 AM-noon
- Length of group: Ongoing (starts January 15th)
- Location: Hanna's house
- Ages: Adults and their young children
- Cost: Free
Please note: you only need to sign up if this is your first time participating in this particular group.
Be a part of a support group for moms that also provides an opportunity for activities for your children. Drop in anytime and make those connections with other young moms that you've been looking for!
One In The Spirit - Women's Book Study
- Coordinator: Susan Dehm
- Schedule: Mondays from 7:00-8:30 PM
- Length of group: Starts January 11 - join anytime
- Location: Room 202
- Ages: Adults
- Cost: Free
Please note: you only need to sign up if this is your first time participating in this particular group.
The One in the Spirit Group is a group of energetic women that gather each Monday evening to read and discuss a contemporary theological book about the Christian life. Read books by authors like Brian McLaren, Stanley Hauerwas, and Marcus Borg in a community that cares about figuring out how to put these ideas into practice in our daily lives!
Men's Study Group
- Coordinator: John Hutt
- Schedule: Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30 PM
- Location: Meets in a home
- Ages: Adults
- Cost: $10
A men's study group will be reading the book "Wild At Heart" by John Eldredge. There are 12 chapters, and the plan is to read do 1 per week. The group starts Tuesday, January 26th, meeting from 6:30-7:30 PM. For more information and for directions to the meeting location, contact John Hutt.
Living the Questions: Session 2
(Reclaiming the World)
- Coordinator: Sandi DeMaster
- Schedule: TBA
- Length of commitment: Seven weeks, starting the week of February 1st
- Location: At the church (room TBA)
- Cost: $10 for singles, $15 for couples
- Ages: Adults
- Number of participants: 6 minimum, 12 maximum
Signing up requires completion of Session 1.
Living the Questions is an open-minded alternative to studies that attempt to give participants all the answers and instead strives to create an environment where participants can interact with one another in exploring what's next for Christianity.
Watch video segments with conversations of leading voices of faith such as Marcus Borg and Walter Brueggemann, and engage with one another as you live out the questions of faith that matter in our 21st century world.
Living the Questions: Session 3
(Call to Covenant)
- Coordinator: Sandi DeMaster
- Schedule: Tuesday afternoons from 1:30-3:00 PM
- Length of commitment: Seven weeks, starting February 2nd
- Location: At the church (room TBA)
- Cost: $10 for singles, $15 for couples
- Ages: Adults
- Number of participants: 6 minimum, 12 maximum
Signing up requires completion of Session 1 and 2.
Living the Questions is an open-minded alternative to studies that attempt to give participants all the answers and instead strives to create an environment where participants can interact with one another in exploring what's next for Christianity.
Watch video segments with conversations of leading voices of faith such as Marcus Borg and Walter Brueggemann, and engage with one another as you live out the questions of faith that matter in our 21st century world.
Take This Bread:
Starting a Food Pantry at Your Church
- Coordinators: Mark Pederson and Efrain Arredondo
- Schedule: Saturday afternoons from 1:00-3:00 PM
- Length of commitment: Seven weeks from January 30 to March 13
- Location: Mark's house
- Cost: $10 for a copy of the book
- Ages: All ages
- Number of participants: 6 minimum, 12 maximum
This group will read the book Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion by Sara Miles as a group, eat bread together, and then at the end DO the book! Each week would include a lunch prepared by those who would be interested in cooking. We would then get to know each other and discuss the chapters for the week.
One group that has already studied this book would like to get together with this current group after we have studied it, to see if we might join together in starting a food based ministry at the Coop. What the group discovered is that there is a need for a weekend food pantry in McMinnville, and especially needed for the working poor.
Take This Bread tells Sara's story: "Converted at age 46 when she impulsively walked into a church and received communion for the first time, the former war correspondent suddenly understood her life's mission: to feed the hungry. What her parish needed, she decided, was a food pantry..."
Photography Group
- Coordinator: Michelle Adams
- Schedule: Sunday afternoons from 1:30-3:00 PM
- Length of commitment: Eight weeks from February 7th to March 28th
- Location: Great Room; some community locations TBA
- Cost: Free
- Ages: Everyone
- Number of participants: 6 minimum, 20 maximum
Take pictures in fun locations around McMinnville and share the best of them with the group.
Over eight weeks, this group will include four days of shooting and four days of picture sharing and group discussion.
Open to people of all ages, this is the community you've been looking for where you can develop your photo skills and be inspired by the creativity of others!
Theology of Jazz
(Rescheduled for April 2010)
- Coordinator: Paul Adams
- Schedule: Tuesday evenings from 7:00-8:30 PM
- Length of commitment: Eight weeks from February 2nd to March 23rd
- Location: Wednesday Wines (250 NE Second Street, McMinnville)
- Cost: $10 for a copy of the text
- Ages: Adults
- Number of participants: 6 minimum, 12 maximum
The dynamic kind of music we call jazz is made up of many different sounds and many diverse cultures - yet, there are things that all kinds of jazz have in common. As a diverse and dynamic people of God, how can we use jazz music to help us understand our own faith has in common with those that are different from us?
In this class, you'll get to watch, listen, and experience the full range of jazz - past and present - as you explore these questions in a music-loving community.You'll also get to read Paul's new Theology of Jazz text, written specifically for this class. Rescheduled for April 2010.
Invitation to the New Testatment:
A Short-Term Disciple Bible Study
- Coordinator: Paul Adams
- Schedule: Sundays from 11:30 AM-12:30 PM
- Length of commitment: Eight weeks from February 14th to April 4th
- Location: Room 103/105 (next to the Great Room)
- Cost: $10 for a copy of the study text
- Ages: Adults
- Number of participants: 6 minimum, 12 maximum
Who is Jesus and what is his significance for our lives? Participants are invited to join this conversation, to study afresh this story of Jesus, and to learn more about their calling to discipleship and to community.
Using Matthew's Gospel as a starting point, this study explores how the new Testament writers and the early Christian community wrestled with the coming of Jesus--his life, actions, mission, death, and resurrection--and the implications of his arrival for their lives and their communities of faith.
A ministry of 
McMinnville United Methodist Church and
Trinity Lutheran Church.