Looking for information on being in an ongoing small group for sharing life and faith with a few friends?
Quick Links
- Young Adult Group
- Seekers Sunday morning group
- Quilting/Sewing Groups
- Open Basketball
- How to form a new small group
- Resource Library for small group study
Young Adult Group
HUMC Playground
2nd Sundays, 10am
Looking to connect with some other young adults (20s, 30s)? This group gathers for a monthly second Sundays coffee meetup on the HUMC playground outside the Sanctuary building at 10am. All young adults & young families welcome!
Family friendly while still completely welcoming young adults without kids! Parents can connect with other adults while their kids (if they have kids) can have a blast on the playground!
Reach out to Meredith Osborn & Jon Esala to get on the email list, or just show up on Sundays!
Seekers
This ongoing Sunday morning group for adults discusses a wide range of books and topics.
Class pace is relaxed, and the only real requirement is that participants are seekers who want to deepen their relationship with God.
- Sundays, 10-11am.
- Sanctuary building, room 206 (parlor, accessible). (Zoom participation is available if you want.)
- Facilitators: Ginny Blasingame & others.
Seams That Bind,
Threads of Faith
Sewing & Quilting Ministry
Mondays 9am-12pm
Wednesdays 9am-12pm
Location: Missions Room, Warehouse 839 building.
Monday is mission day. Come help create homemade quilts for:
- Moms2B, an “innovative, community-based program” of Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center that aims to support low-income women through pregnancy and motherhood.
- Stepp Clinic Program (OSU)
- My Very Own Blanket, fleece blankets for foster children
- UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief), large unlined quilts that go internationally as well as stateside
- Henderson Settlement in Frakes, Kentucky
- Toledo Maternal Health
We also make quilts for children getting baptized at Hilliard UMC.
We continue to accept fabric and pass on what we cannot use to St. Paul’s Lutheran (New Rome) and the Golden Hobby Shop (Columbus), which assists seniors in their arts and crafts projects.
Wednesday is open for your own projects. Linda is also available some afternoons for special projects.
Don’t know how to quilt yet? Beginners welcome! You can cut fabric, sew, do finishing work, and more, while you learn.
To get involved, reach out to Lori Lee, church Office Manager, to be connected to ministry leader Linda Overman.
Open Basketball
Wednesdays 7:45-9:15pm in the Warehouse 839 gym. Exercise and have fun with a great group of people. Not a league; it’s open gym basketball for individuals of all skill levels. Contact: Dave Bowman or just show up!
A Different Kind of Small Group:
The Wesley Class Meeting
Do you want to connect on a personal, spiritual level with friends? Do you want to go a little (or a lot) deeper in your faith?
These groups have no homework and minimal leader prep (once the group gets started), just a commitment to meet regularly for an hour or two to do life together by answering a couple of key questions: “How have you experienced God this week?” and “How is it with your soul?” It’s transformational in the best possible sense!
It’s about watching over one another in love and learning to pay attention to what God is doing in your life.
If you don’t feel like you know enough people at church yet to start your own group, start by signing up for some stuff, so you can get to know more people: take a class, help serve dinner at the community meal, offer to greet people arriving for worship on Sunday mornings, join the choir…
Small Group Resources
Looking for your next study? If your small group does book studies, stop by the church office to check out all the small group study resources Hilliard UMC owns.