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ChristCare


“Circles of Care with Christ at the Center”

ChristCare Progress Report

As many in our congregation may recall, our first class of ChristCare Group Leaders was commissioned on February 11th.  Since that time, the brand new ChristCare Ministry has been hard at work, trying to match applicants’ preferences and availabilities with the new groups being launched.

The following groups are open and up and running:

  • Tuesdays –9:15 a.m.
               ChristCare Prayer group meets in the Prayer Room
              Led by Kay Bullock
  • Thursdays - 7 p.m.
            Women’s ChristCare group meets in the Upper Room
            Led by Karen Delk

  • 1st and 3rd Tuesdays – 6:30 p.m.
            Mental Health ChristCare group meets in the Fireside Room,
            Led by Kay Bullock and Inge Greenwood.
  • 2nd and 4th Thursdays - 3 p.m.

      ChristCare group meets at The Peninsula Regent (corner of El Camino and Baldwin),
Led by Jean Fiske

We hope to launch two other groups by summer.  Though 14 leaders were trained, several were not prepared yet to take on a new group.  Additional groups will start when they are ready and as new leaders are trained.  In April, Mase Warner and Karen Delk attended ChristCare Equippers Training in Saint Louis in order to work with Equippers Jan Bower and Marie Frykberg to train more group leaders in the fall.

If you are interested in joining a ChristCare group or would like more information about Leader training, please contact Fellowship Elder Karen Delk at kjdelk@earthlink.net or Linda Dieterle at l.dieterle@worldnet.att.net.  You may also call the Church office at 650-342-0875



What are Christ Care Groups?
  • Small groups of 5-12 people
  • Led by trained lay people (40 hours)
  • Four elements that groups engage in:
  1. Prayer & Worship
  2. Community Building & Care
  3. Biblical Equipping 
  4. Missional Service
As groups mature, new members join, additional leaders are identified, and birthing (dividing) occurs.  Biblical Equipping is a disciplined way of encountering the Bible—by yourself and with your ChristCare Group—for the purpose of hearing and understanding God’s Word more clearly, knowing and loving God and others more deeply, and living for and serving God more joyfully and obediently.
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Biblical Equipping Together: These steps are done together in ChristCare Groups.
Step 1: Share
Step 2: Hear
Step 3: Explore
Step 4: Connect
Step 5: Prepare

Biblical Equipping Apart: These steps are done individually by group members between group meetings.
Step 7: Meditate
Step 8: Reflect
Step 6: Obey


ChristCare Ministry is a system that offers training for small group leaders, as well as on-going support, encouragement, and accountability for small groups.
  • vChristCare was developed by Stephens Ministries
  • Lutheran-based but multi-denominational in practice
  • vBegan in 1992
  • v900 plus congregations enrolled (53 denominations)
  • v3,200 plus equippers and 15,000 plus leaders trained
"They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being done by the apostles. All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need. Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having the goodwill of all the people. And day by day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved." Acts  2:42-47
Twelve Critical Ingredients of a ChristCare Group
  1. 1.We accept one another as we are.
  2. 2.We share as much as we like from our own struggles and successes, victories and failures, joys and pains.
  3. 3.We are honest with ourselves and others, telling it like it is.
  4. 4.We listen to one another to hear what people say and what they mean.
  5. 5.We don’t criticize or condemn what others share, but instead we affirm the positive things we see in others.
  6. 6.We don’t give advice unless others ask for it.
  7. 7.We gather to care and to be cared for – and not to cure.  If we care for one another, God will do the curing.
  8. 8.We share our own experience of faith in our words, not someone else’s experience in his or her words.
  9. 9.We grow in trust for one another, knowing that what we share will remain within the group.
  10. 10.We give ourselves and others the freedom to be silent.
  11. 11.We spend our group time discussing important personal issues in an informal, natural way.
  12. 12.We encourage one another to serve in and beyond the group.

Our small group ministry is ready to grow! We have begun training caring people to serve as ChristCare Group leaders for our new ChristCare Groups. If you think that God might be calling you to this ministry contact Marie Frykberg.
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