These are the Education/Fellowship updates. This is the slideshow of pending or current classes, small groups, and fellowship opportunities.

1. Education News and Information

2. Monday Night Bible Study
This group has turned its attention to the Gospel of Mark
facilitated by Pastor Kevin.
The Gospel of Mark is not just good news about
Jesus. It reveals, sometimes in surprising and
scandalous ways, how Jesus is God's good news to
us. This study takes 8 big questions based in the
text and challenges participants to explore them
thoughtfully together:
•What Kind of Beginning is This?
•Who's In? Who's Out?
•Who Do You Say Jesus Is?
•What Does the Glory of God Look Like?
•Who is the Greatest?
•When Is the Ending Beginning?
•Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
•Can the End Be Just a Beginning
Monday Night Bible study begins at 6:30pm with a potluck meal,
followed at 7:00 by study. We meet in Alan & Loretta Leicht’s
home (see the Member Directory for address)
Sign up at the Information Table, or Contact Pastor Kevin at 623-215-8139.

3. New Adult Education Study
Sunday 9:35 - 10:20 (during the Education hour between services)
Christianity and Islam:
So Much in Common, So Far Apart.
A thirteen week course that compares the
two largest faiths in the world.

4. A FAITH WALK FOR NEW MEMBERS
Faith Walk is a process of faith formation and discipling for
adults who desire baptism, to renew their baptism, to become
a member of Desert Streams, or simply to know more about
God and life in Christ.
Faith Walk is a time to explore and ask questions, a time to
grow in faith, a time to find new life in Christ, and a time to
discover faith in daily living.
This faith formation group seeking membership with the Desert
Streams family meets on Saturday evenings at 7:00 in Pastor
Kevin’s home (15676 N 164th Ln, Surprise 85388) .
You may sign up for the Introduction Class and Faith Walk on the
Information Table, or talk with Pastor Kevin.

5. Experience The Holy Land
Join a group from our Grand
Canyon Synod that will be touring
the regular Biblical sites, as well as
visiting Lutheran hospitals and
schools and having conversation
with both Palestinians and Israelis
who are working for peace.
The pilgrimage is scheduled for June 8-19, 2012. It will be led by
our own Rev. Rick Rouse, his wife, Beth Lewis, and son, Rev. Ryan
Rouse.
See the full brochure at our church Information Table. You can
view the brochure as well as register online at Group Tour
Directors (checking for Holy Land tours scheduled for June 2012.)
You can also call Pastor Rick at 612-710-7959 or email him at
wrouse@comcast.net for more information.

6. Current Session began August 25th.
This thirteen week course gives solid
advice to paying down debt,
eliminating credit cards, saving
towards significant purchases and
instituting sound investment
practices.
Sessions will take place from 6:30 - 8:30 at Pastor Kevin and Faye Ruffcorn's home.
People who register early are able to receive substantial savings on
curriculum costs! Prices for an FPU Lifetime Membership when people
register for the class online:
- Signups in August and September: $93*
*Plus shipping and handling charges.
Sign up for the class on the signup sheets on the Information Table. You may
also call the church office at 623-215-8139.
Our next session will begin in early 2012.
See our Small Groups page for information regarding what Financial Peace University is about

7. Looking for spiritual refreshment?
God Pause e-mail devotions are short, meaningful reflections on the
following Sunday's lessons and gospel delivered directly to your e-mail box.
By Sunday, you'll be ready for an extra meaningful worship experience.
Our devotion writers are Luther Seminary alumni/ae. Their reflections are a
gift to you and to the church.
Sign up today and invite others to do the same at
www.luthersem.edu/email or via our websites Education page

8. Pass on the Faith!
Check out:
Ready, click, grow
Via our Home Grown Faith tab on
our Education page.