WHAT ARE LIFEGROUPS?

LifeGroups are a 3 to 6 week study on Sunday nights that help to equip your student to know Christ and make Him known. Each semester our team puts together a different lesson series that is tailored to 5th-12th graders. On Sunday nights, your student will hangout LifeGroups begin with a hangout time, including free food and games. Then, we watch our video which is made by our NHS LifeGroups team. Next, the students split into small groups (around 8-10 students), that are separated by grade and gender, where they will dive deeper into the topic.

At LifeGroups, we go over age-appropriate topics that are relevant in your students lives. All of our studies are based on the bible and its teachings. Since each group is split into grade and gender, the leaders are trained to gear the conversation towards that specific group. We try to make everything relatable and applicable to every student's life so they can continue to grow in their relationship with Jesus. For our current fall semester, we are focusing on community and what it looks like to have friendships rooted in faith.

Every small group has someone leading the discussion and making sure it’s focused on Jesus. Every coach (Adult Leader) is background checked and has been officially trained by our LifeGroups team. We also have student leaders for our high school groups leading their peers in conversation.

We believe parents are the primary disciple makers of every single one of these students, so we have a few resources for you to get involved. We send out a car ride home text after every LifeGroup session with a couple conversation starters to help you dive deeper into the topic with your student. On the Mondays after LifeGroups, we also send out a family devotional for you to walk through. We would love for you to get involved on our LifeGroup serving team. You could help students check in, serve pizza, lead a group, or join our chairs team. We are always looking for willing volunteers in every category so if you want to get involved just contact one of the student pastors at your campus!

At NHS we believe that parents are the primary disciple makers in a students life. We believe that it extends to LifeGroups as well.

After each LifeGroup, we send out a variety of parent resources for you to extend the conversation with your student. Right after LifeGroups, we send a text to parents with car ride questions that further build off the content they just went over. We also send a family devotional on Monday mornings that you can talk through with not just your student, but the entire family. These devotionals can also be found below in our Family Resources section.