If you’ve been around here much, you will have heard homegroups mentioned quite a bit. As a church family, we are deeply invested in small group discipleship. Our mission at SBCC is to be a community of believers looking upward to God, growing inward in Christ, and moving outward by the Spirit for the glory of God. There are many ways we try to … [Read more...]

Going home. I suspect this phrase brings to mind different images for each of us based on where and with whom we have lived throughout our lives. Good or not so good, set those thoughts aside. Dream for a moment, hypothesize. When you go home from a long day of work, school, parenting, trying to find a job—whatever it is that makes your day long, … [Read more...]

In the August Community News we looked at the purpose of homegroups. They are designed to build community and to develop disciples—discipleship in community. All group members are involved in both of these intertwined aspects of their homegroup. How is each and every person (not just the leaders) involved in making a homegroup thrive? How does … [Read more...]

Homegroups. What are they? Many churches have some kind of small groups: Covenant Groups, Family Groups, Core Groups, Cell Groups, Men’s Groups, Women’s Groups, Recovery Groups….They can be called many things, and have many purposes. At Santa Barbara Community Church the purpose of a Homegroup is discipleship in community. As Christians, we are … [Read more...]