Growth Groups

A Growth Group is a small group of adults that meets in someone’s home for fellowship, prayer and Bible study. Grace Church has several Growth Groups. If you are currently attending worship services with us on Sundays, we encourage you to contact one of these groups about attending:

Penfield Growth Group meets Sunday evenings from 6:30-8:30pm: Charlie and Marcia Gault (377-9265 or )

Rochester Southeast Growth Group meets Sunday evenings at 7pm: Keziah Lain Collier (820-0439 or )

Rochester Northeast Growth Group meets Monday evenings at 7pm: Robin & Joan Lambert (216-9773 or ) and Peter & Chris Mason (872-6432 or )

Rochester Southwest Growth Group meets Tuesday evenings from 7:15-9pm: Dan & Catherine Helm and Marilyn Elliott (410-7266 or )

Rochester North Growth Group meets Thursday evenings at 7pm: Leon & Cheri France and Jerry & Roberta Smith

Rochester Central Growth Group meets Thursday evenings from 7:15-9pm: Alex & Katy Trygstad ()

Why are Growth Groups important?

Quite simply, because they allow you to experience what Christian community can be like at a level that often isn’t possible on Sunday mornings.

In a Growth Group, you can develop close bonds with other Christians. You can wrestle with scripture passages, talking about parts that might be puzzling to you. And you can join with others in prayer for those things that are especially important to you.  

In the first letter of Peter, the apostle says, “You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house.” Our Growth Groups are where the Holy Spirit does much of that building.  We encourage you to get involved in a Growth Group, where brick by brick—and relationship by relationship—we are being built up into a beautiful temple, a place where we can worship God and enjoy being part of his family.