Adult Sunday School

We have a number of adult Sunday School classes to help you connect with others and deepen your spiritual journey.

EXPLORATIONS CLASS

Visitors and new members

Our pastor personally leads a 5-week class, twice a year in the Spring and Fall. There’s no commitment just by coming. It’s a great chance to get to know our pastor, each other, and our church.

Topics include:

Our faith stories, our pastor’s story, and the church’s story
The story of John and Charles Wesley and Methodism
The essentials on Wesleyan beliefs
Methodist spirituality and practice
Ways to be involved at Jax First UMC

Our pastor will announce the start of each upcoming class and invite people who have been recently joining us for worship. Never fear … you are welcome to come if you have already been active in our church for a while!

Teacher and Class Leader: Steve West

Meeting Room: Church Parlor (to the right of the sanctuary)

NEW LIFE CLASS

30 & up

This small group tackles challenging topics that face us as Christians. All group members are involved in selecting books and leading discussion. Many of our books include video that assists us with discussion. in the past, we hve discussed books such as Mere Christianity; When Christians Get It Wrong;LOVE God, Love People, Don’t Do Dumb Crap; The Language of God; When God Winks and currently involved with Reading the Bible from the Margins.

New Life is open to Christians of all ages, but due to the complexity of much of the material discussed, the recommended age range of participants is 30 years and up. Feel free to join us to explore Christians’ challenges and how we continue to grow our beliefs and practices.

Teacher: Class members rotate

Class Leaders: Andrea MacTaggart and Nancy Bishop

Meeting Room: Room 216 (2nd Floor)

YOUNG ADULTS CLASS

18+

Our Young Adult class is a small group of believers who want to further study God’s Word and share what we have learned in our daily life. We hope to help each other grow in our walk of faith.

The class is for college students, recent graduates, and young professionals. Everyone is welcome.

Our weekly study format consists of a variety of books, videos and study of the books of the Bible.

Teachers and Class Leaders: Heather and Matt Watkins

Meeting Room: Room 101 (at the base of the stairwell under the sanctuary)

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Are you interested in something different?

We are always ready to start a new Sunday School class for adults!

What would you like to study? How would you like to be organized? Who would you like to hang out with?

Just call the church office or have a conversation with one of our staff.

We’d love to start a new class for you!

MULTIPLE REALITIES CLASS

30+

This class began as a young marrieds class and has evolved into an all-inclusive class. The thrusts of the class are:

letting our relationship with Jesus aid us in relationships with others
letting our faith to guide us in life’s ups and downs

We enjoy sharing videos that come with discussion manuals. Examples include a couple of Andy Stanley’s video series, Guardrails and Christian, It’s Not What You Think.

The Multiple Realities class sponsors the annual church wide rummage sale.

Teachers and Class Leaders : Evonne and Bruce Cunningham

Meeting Room: Room 211 (on the 2nd Floor near Children’s Church)

JESUS OTHERS, AND YOURSELF (JOY) CLASS

40’s-80+

JOY is diverse in age ranges, backgrounds, marital status, education, and humor. Their commitment, becoming stronger Disciples of Christ, is grounded in Bible based, theological study with intercessory prayer.

Their covenant includes class time for prayer, Bible study with handouts, and discussion. Included is a brief coffee/fellowship time. Weekly, prayer requests, praises, and a short devotion are sent to all members and any non-members wanting to be included.

Teachers: Class members rotate

Meeting Room: Room 104 (1st Floor)

PAIRS AND SPARES CLASS

50 & up

Pairs and spares is a vibrant group of active adults who have a passion for studying the scriptures and putting into practice what we have learned from our studies. We have several exceptional teachers who lead first rate study books on living the life that Christ wants for us.

Our members support the missions of the church to include involvement in various outreach projects.

We invite anyone - couples, singles, etc. - to join us for a spirited discussion every Sunday. We celebrate our togetherness on First Friday by meeting at a local restaurant to have dinner. We consider our class to be family.

Teachers: Evin Thompson

Class Leader: Pat Borstorff

Meeting Room: Room 214 (2nd floor)

COVENANT CLASS

60 & up

The Covenant Class is a newer class, created in 2021 after a recent Explorations Class by some of our new members for folks who were not yet connected with a Sunday School class.

Everyone is welcome and it would be easy to fit in, since we’re all new! We love our Lord Jesus Christ and enjoy companionship with each other.

As our study material, we use the Cokesbury Adult Bible curriculum.