A Gospel Community Group (GCG) is a small group of people whose community is centered around the Gospel. There is one designated day per week that each community meets as a whole at a leader's house, but GCG is much more than a once a week meeting. The GCG is the primary context in which the purpose of our church can be lived out "To Worship God with our Head, Heart and Hands." We believe this can be accomplished by living intentionally and participating in normal christian rhythms of life - eating, worshiping, learning, praying, repenting, resting and serving - together. We ask all our church attendants to participate in a GCG and follow Jesus with an obedient heart.
Gospel Community Groups (GCGs) are the lifeblood of our church. These are sermon based small groups that are intentional about being gospel centered.
Having GCGs allows a balance between the structure of the local church for efficiency and unification as well as an organic nature that allows individual gifts to be nurtured and put in to use. Our groups have a basic plan and structure, but they each end up taking on a different “flavor” as they live out that structure.
We are not designed to have intimate relationships with hundreds of people, and therefore a person cannot be in true community with everyone at our weekly gatherings. Small groups operating properly from a Gospel center will cultivate a life that is in genuine community. In turn, Gospel centered community will cultivate a culture and a church that is working and reaching the world in an appropriate and effective manner.
How to Choose a Group?
•Look for a group with unity and diversity.
Unity - look for a commonality you may have with the group - this may be location , stage in life, interests, passions, etc.
Diversity - look for a group that has both older and younger people with various levels of Christian maturity - where you want to be one day as well as people who have been where you once were.
•Contact the group leader to set up a visit.
•You are free to visit multiple groups, but please don’t date groups forever. Once you decide the available group that you’d like to be intentional about building community with, then let that leader know.
Here are the leaders, general location, day and time info that available FCC Gospel Communities (GC) will be meeting
IMPORTANT: The City If you are already a on The City, simply click on the group leaders names. If you are not on The City, you can sign up on Sunday mornings at The City kiosk or go to http://www.fourcorners.onthecity.org and click "need account."
We are using this system for the safety of our group leaders and their families.
Kyle & Holly Arrendale,
Sundays, 1pm, near Arbor Springs School
Our group just got started this past year. We love gathering together and challenging one another with God's Word. Right now our group consists of singles and young married couples. Some of us have kids. We would really like to incorporate some couples further along in life as well. We are quickly becoming a family and want to incorporate others into our new group. We are also growing in our service to one another and we are beginning to see that naturally develop into some various areas of mission outside of our group. We are praying that those opportunities will increase. Jon & Nicole Snell,
4-7pm,
Lake Redwine
Our group is currently made up of one engaged couple, and 4 families each with children from ages 9 down to babies. We love playing, cooking, and just being together. We are thankful for way God has used our community to draw us closer together and open our hearts evermore to Jesus. We have a heart for the poor and are intentional about serving together in Newnan and the Atlanta area.
Bowlby / Minshew, 4-7
Avery Park
We are all young adults around ages 25 to 35 with children age 7 and under, we enjoy diverse cultures and cooking and eating ethnic foods, spending time together throughout the week, and we have also recently started brewing beer together (a very controversial topic as of late).
We are looking at getting involved in the foster care community through possibly becoming foster parents or providing respit care, we also have a passion for foreign missions.
Jason & Jennifer Burns,
5:30-7:30pm,
Downtown at FCC Loft
We are a group currently made up of late 30s & 40 somethings as well as a couple of teens. We will be focused on utilizing worship and the development of young musicians. We have also been known to eat copious amounts of strange foods.
We hope to impact downtown with acts of service as we will already be meeting in the area.
Tim & Taryn Harris,
6-8pm,
Close to Newnan HIgh School
We are a new group that has just launched this year. Taryn and I have been married one year and are in our early to mid 20’s. Both of us grew up on the mission field and have a passion and desire to serve in foreign missions in the future. Our group has a wide age range from singles to families with children. Our desire is to grow together with others encouraging one another (as iron sharpens iron) to live lives that preach the Gospel through our attitudes, speech, and actions.
Kid Friendly: Yes
LEADERS
AVAILABLE GROUPS
SUNDAYS
WEDNESDAYS
Student GCG 7:00 - 8:00pm, Downtown Newnan
The Student Gospel Community, led by Tripp Almon and Joanna Thompson is composed of middle and high school students from around the Newnan area. We gather each Wednesday evening at the church building, to spend time studying God's word, asking and answering tough questions about Christianity, and spending time together to eat and hang out.
We understand that our greatest opportunities for missional living is where we already are present: our schools, teams, and clubs. We also will occasionally get together outside of our regular meeting for a project or for recreation.
Gregg & Gina Katz 6:30 - 8:30pm, Downtown Newnan
We are a mixed group of married couples with kids from newborn to ten years old. We are a new group so our current service interest is in development, although single moms are close to our hearts. We enjoy a meal together every time we meet and try to do an activity once in a while in lieu of a formal meeting.
Thursdays
John & Kathryn Simon, Sundays 1:30pm, Whitesburg area.
We are a group with different, distinct age groups. Half of us are young adult newly weds with no children, that are able to learn and gain the wisdom and knowledge from the other half who are a bit more experienced in marriage and parenting. We are looking forward to learning much from each other in our different stages in life while also serving and loving each other and our community.
