Home Group Questions Template

As a church we’re always looking for ways to connect people in our community to our God who loves them.  
Throughout the year we have many events to help us do just that.  For Halloween we have a great Trunk or Treat event at our offices where we connect with hundreds of kids and parents.  
At Lentil Festival each year we host multiple booths where we paint faces, make balloon animals and get to interact with kids and parents.  
Often times it is these simple interactions that help folks see that we’re the kind of people they might like to get to know and suddenly coming to visit our church and hear about our God doesn’t sound so weird.

When children are taken from a home and placed in foster care it starts a process for the biological parent(s) to take the necessary actions to regain custody of their children. Once a parent has progressed to a certain point they are allowed to begin having supervised visits with their kids.  
In our community there was a severe lack of meeting space and more often than not these visits, which often last several hours, were taking place in the McDonalds play area.  Working with our area case workers, department of family and children’s services we began to discuss how we could come alongside families that are in this process of restoration.  
With generous donations from Real Life Church members, we were able to rent and furnish a 3 bedroom duplex. This provides an home environment for these families to engage with their kids and experience just a bit of normal in the midst of very trying times.
The ministry use of the duplex has expanded to provide meeting space for foster family support groups, prayer groups, training and much more.
We see no greater work at hand than being able to partner with God to restore relationships that sin broke.