The Seekers adult class meets Sunday mornings from 9 to 10 AM throughout the academic year. A variety of Christ-centered topics, often serialized and inspired by contemporary authors and Scriptural texts,
provide the basis for learning. Faith-in-life themes, the meanings of Advent and Christmas, Lent and Easter are typical focal points of engagement for twenty or so participants led by a group of five or six class member volunteers who take turns presenting and facilitating informal discussion.
2026 Fall semester topics include:
Fear of the Other, based on the book by William H. Willimon
How do we respond when people who are different from us make us uncomfortable or challenge our assumptions? In Fear of the Other, William Willimon explores the Christian call to welcome the stranger and consider how faith can help us move beyond fear, suspicion, and division toward greater understanding and hospitality.
Issues of Aging
Aging brings opportunities, challenges, questions, and transitions that affect all of us—whether we are experiencing them ourselves or walking alongside family and friends. This study will explore the spiritual, emotional, relational, and practical dimensions of aging and consider how our faith can help us navigate this important stage of life with grace, purpose, and hope.
When Helping Hurts, based on the book by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
Our desire to help others is at the heart of Christian faith, but good intentions do not always produce good results. When Helping Hurts challenges us to reconsider how we understand poverty, generosity, and service and invites us to explore ways of helping that promote dignity, lasting change, and genuine partnership rather than dependency.
An Unlikely Advent, based on the book by Rachel Billups
Advent is a season of waiting, preparation, and hope—but it rarely unfolds exactly as we expect. In An Unlikely Advent, Rachel Billups invites us to discover God at work in unexpected people, places, and circumstances and to consider how the surprises of the Christmas story can reshape the way we experience Advent today.