Leader: Karen Toves
Name: Balance At The Speed Of Life
Phone: 209-239-1345
Email: karen@calvarymanteca.org
Location: Calvary, Room 202
Day: Sundays
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Children: Childcare available
Emphasis: Engaging in scripture
Req: Purchase book
Description:
Are you balancing so many responsibilities that you're sometimes concerned one slip might bring everything crashing down? Are you so busy you think you just can't handle anything else? Managing the demands of family, career, and church can be a daily challenge. It is easy to get so caught up in a hectic schedule that you forget what is most important – your relationship with God & others. Join us as we seek God and His wisdom in balancing our lives to better honor Him.
Leaders: Brandi Nussbaumer & Shannon DiPietro
Name: MOMS
Phone: 209-823-3513
Email: brandinussbaumer@yahoo.com
Location: Calvary, Rm. 206
Day: Wednesdays, (1st & 3rd)
Time: 9:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Children: Childcare available
Emphasis: Caring for one another
Req: $5.00 fee per meeting to cover childcare and activity cost.
(Scholarships are avail)
Description:
MOMS is an opportunity for encouragement and for discussion and/or instruction, in a fun atmosphere, where friendships can be cultivated. Focus is on parenting, marriage, friendship, womanhood, and homemaking from Christian principles.
Leader: Raelyn Clark
Name: God’s Glory
Phone: 209-599-8462
Email: riponspalady@yahoo.com
Location: Group will rotate between homes
Day: Sundays (every other week)
Time: 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Children: No
Emphasis: Bible Study
Req: Rotate hosting group, optional purchase book.
Description:
Join us as we continue discovering God’s glory through the book of Luke. We will trace Luke’s story from Jesus’ birth, through his ministry in Galilee, His training of the disciples on the way to Jerusalem, His submission to the crucifixion and His ultimate triumph in the resurrection.
Leaders: Cheryl Dodge-Milligan & Pam Tornquist
Name: Single Moms
Phone: 209-234-4937
Email: cbmilligan@comcast.net
Location: 813 Kilarney Court, Lathrop
Area: Lathrop
Day: Fridays
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Children: Welcome
Emphasis: Caring for One Another / Bible Study
Req: Purchase book, share snacks
Description:
Our desire is to bring hope and help to single moms struggling to raise happy, healthy, well adjusted children in a loving, caring and Biblically grounded way.
Leader: Krislyn Hunter
Phone: 209-825-8681
Email: bhkh1@comcast.net
Location: 622 Catmint St., Manteca
Area: Woodward
Day: Thursdays
Time: 6:00 a.m. - 7 a.m.
Children: No
Emphasis: Bible Study
Req: Bring a Bible
Description:
Join us as we get our days started together. Our desire is to study and discuss Scripture so that we may continue to grow in our faith and commitment to Jesus Christ.
Leader: Kristin Mills & Terri Taylor
Name: Trading Our Sorrows for Joy
Phone: 209-239-6990
Email: millrk@verizon.net
Location: Calvary Rm. 205
Day: Saturdays (every other week)
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Children: Children Welcome
Emphasis: Caring for one another
Req: Potluck brunch, possible cost for materials. Extreme confidentiality.
Description:
When depression strikes Christians, they tend to deny that it exists. Why? Because they think that they are not allowed to be depressed or it makes them less of a Christian. This group will provide a confidential, safe atmosphere where women can discover the peace and compassion that comes from Jesus Christ.
Leader: Brandy Tolman
Name: The Power of a Praying Parent
Phone: 209-825-4969
Email: brandylt4@aol.com
Location: 1583 Wild Rose Place
Area: Veritas
Day: Friday (2nd & 4th)
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Children: Welcome
Emphasis: Prayer
Req: Purchase a book
Description:
We will read “The Power of a Praying Parent” by Stormie Omartian. Stormie shares from personal experience as to how parents can pray for their children's safety, character, adolescence, peer pressure, school experiences, friends, and relationship with God. Using this example we will gather together and cover our families in prayer.
Leaders: Jackie Bowers & Nancy Dietrich
Phone: 209-239-8177
Email: jackie_bowers57@yahoo.com
Location: 150 Raylow Ave., Manteca
Day: Thursdays
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Children: No
Emphasis:Caring
Req: Purchase Material
Description:
This group is for women looking for direction at a new stage of life. We will study “Barbara and Susan’s Guide to the Empty Nest”, by Barbara Rainey and Susan Yates. The focus of the book is “discovering new purpose, passion and your next great adventure.”