What is g4?
G4 is a lay-led, group-based counseling ministry built around two nine-step models of change. G4 provides a context for participants to invest a season of their life overcoming a life-dominating struggle of sin or suffering. With the support of their fellow group members, G4 participants work through a biblically based curriculum focused on their primary life struggle.
All groups meet on Thursdays at 6:30pm at the Reclamation Community Center. Fall sessions begin on Thursday, September 24th.
Reclamation Community Center
2456 Tilbrook Rd, Monroeville, PA 15146
journey through grief (co-ed)
Facilitator(s): deb bingham
Description
Have you lost a loved one? Are you trying to navigate through the maze of hurt, sorrow, and heartache caused by grief? Participation in this group experience will enable you to find support, hope, and encouragement through God after the death of a spouse, child, family member, or friend. Gather information, engage in discussions, share your story, as you, in turn, learn to be an encouragement to others. (Please note this group is not for those who are grieving from divorce, job loss, or financial debt.)
Length
8 weeks
Material/Cost
No cost, bring your Bible and a journal
soul of desire (co-ed)
Facilitator(S): ruth harper
Description
Do you notice longings in your heart and wonder what they mean? Do you find them out of control inside, spilling out into behaviors that you don’t want?
In The Soul of Desire, psychiatrist Curt Thompson suggests that underneath all our longings is the desire to be known, and that this manifests itself in our deep need to make things of beauty, revealing who we are to others. Desire and beauty go hand in hand.
But both our craving to be known and our ability to create beauty have been marred by trauma and shame, collapsing our imagination for what God has for us and blinding us to the possibility that beauty could ever emerge from our ashes.
Join us as we discuss the content of this book in light of the scriptures, learning together what it means that God created us with longing to make beauty. We will put the concepts into practice within a community where we seek to authentically know and be known by God and each other.
This group is appropriate for anyone who seeks to Biblically understand and move away from negative behaviors that stem from unmet longings and is safe for those who have issues with eating and body image.
Learn more about this group by watching this short video.
Length
10 weeks
Material/Cost
Pickup the book wherever you buy books
fearless series for women
Facilitator(S): ginny keteles
Description
The Fearless Series for Women is designed to be a tool for Christian women to get the conversation started about sexual abuse. It consists of a five-session video rental, study guide, and a follow up workbook intended for individuals wanting to dive deeper into healing. The Video Series features Christian women who are survivors and also professionals helping other survivors of sexual trauma. It also features a professional who works with children and helps us understand the scale of this issue. Learn more about this group by watching this short video.
What the Series Covers:
• The prevalence of sexual abuse in America
• The problems that often present themselves out of the trauma a woman has experienced in childhood or adulthood
• The priority for the Church to be involved in this kind of ministry helping women experience help, hope and healing from the trauma
• The prevention of abuse in the home, neighborhood and the church
• The pathway to healing – what healing from sexual trauma looks like
Length
13 weeks
Material/Cost
Study guide provided
False Love: Pursuing Purity after Pornography or Adultery (men only)
Facilitator(S): paul scott
Description
A G4-series Curriculum that outlines a nine-step framework for recovery from sexual sin and invite you to experience freedom and true intimacy with God and those you love. Nothing feels worse than being in bondage and not knowing how to get free. Many people enslaved to pornography or in an adulterous relationship know this feel all too well. Perhaps you’ve been justifying pornography use or infidelity for months or years, but now you are seeing the destruction it has caused in your life and your family’s life. If you are willing to admit that a lack of sexual integrity is disrupting your life, False Love will help you to reclaim your life and guide you toward healing and healthy relationships.
Length
9 weeks
Material/Cost
$20 material cost for the book, paid in person