Adult Education

St. John offers different adult study options throughout the year. If you are interested in any of our programs, please email Pastor Maggie pastor.maggie.westaby@gmail.com

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Pastor Maggie’s Book Club

On Monday, September 29 at 6:30 p.m. the Book Club will discuss The Busybody Book Club by Freya Sampson

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Adult Bible Study

Tuesday, September 30 at 6:30 p.m. we will discuss Chapters 1 & 2 of the Gospel of Luke.

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What our Book Club has read

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Women by Kristin Hannah
Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
What In The World?! by LeAnne Morgan
The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni
The Water Keeper by Charles Martin.
You’re Doing Great! … And Other Reasons To Stay Alive by Tom Papa.
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni.
Strangers Tend To Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home by Amy Dickinson.
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott
The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them by Amy Dickinson
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
He Should have Told the Bees by Amanda Cox
The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper
Heaven Is For Real by Todd Burpo
All The Light We Cannot See by  Anthony Doerr
The Secret To Happiness by Jessica Redland
Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
Forgiving What You Can’t Forget by Lysa Terkeurst
If God Is Love, Don’t Be A Jerk: Finding A Faith That Makes Us Better Humans by John Pavlovitz
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again by Rachel Held Evans
No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need To Hear) by Kate Bowler
Everything Happens For A Reason, And Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler
Learning To Walk In The Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor

What our adult study has read & studied

The Book of James (properly translated: The Book of Jacob)
The Gospel of Matthew
A is for Alabaster: 52 Reflections on the Stories of Scripture By Anna Carter Florence	
The Gospel of Mark	
What Is the Bible? How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything By Rob Bell
Roots of Our Faith: A Six-Session Course on Lutheran Teaching By James A. Nestingen