This study has 8 sessions, incorporating an introductory session and 7 lessons.  The Study Set includes the Study Guide by Catherine Upchurch and a commentary, Women in the New Testament, by Mary Ann Getty-Sullivan (Liturgical Press).  In addition, the community will be purchasing the DVD for the 'live' lecture.  Mary Ann Getty-Sullivan holds an S.T.D. from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.  She has been teaching New Testament courses in colleges and seminaries for more than thirty years and has recently retired to devote more time to writing and lecturing. 
 
This study of New Testament women engages with women across a variety of connections to Jesus and the apostles and studies them accordingly.  Participants will encounter the strengths and needs of these women, but also how being a woman in the holy land during the time of Jesus and the apostles shaped many of the challenges they faced in responding to Jesus.  Participants will enter into discussion and prayer about expectant faith, what it means to be touched by Jesus, and the meaning of discipleship through the lives of the women who lived in the first generation of Christianity.

Please join us Wednesday evening from 7-8:30 pm in Sacred Heart Academy Room 7; or, on Thursday morning from 9-11 am in Olive Ave Hall. 
 

2018 Fall Sessions     WEDNESDAY PM        THURSDAY AM

The Book of Judges
Join us on October 2 as we begin our study into The Book of Judges.  The Book of Judges is a fascinating historical book of the old testament that tells the story of the various minor and major Judges during the period of conquest in Canaan.  Learn how ancient Israel established a system of appointing judges to govern over the 12 tribes and how these judges were confronted with issues of faith and fidelity to God.
 
The study of Judges begins October 2 and concludes on November 20; and, is a precursor to our future studies into other historical books of the bible, I & II Samuel and I & II Kings, which begin in January 2019 after Christmas break.

Bring your New American Bible, or borrow one of ours.