Fall 2019
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Connect in a Group: PEACE Groups<br />
While I was teaching the Discover<br />
class, a few PEACE Group leaders<br />
came and talked about their<br />
experiences with PEACE Groups.<br />
WOW! I was blown away by their<br />
stories. Each person talked about how they<br />
developed deep relationships within their groups.<br />
They shared how they would spend time together<br />
outside of study, talk about difficult situations in<br />
their lives, support each other, and even vacation<br />
together.<br />
Jim and Cathy McCabe shared how one couple<br />
in their group moved to Indiana and still attends<br />
their PEACE Group meetings via a phone call or<br />
Skype. WOW! Great connections and friendships!<br />
Kris Reiner shared that her PEACE Group<br />
supported and helped her several years ago<br />
after her husband passed away. In fact, at the<br />
funeral as Kris sat in the front pew with her<br />
PEACE Group sat right behind her, she said that<br />
she could feel their prayers and love. Even those<br />
attending the funeral asked her if they were part<br />
of her family, and she told them, “No, that's my<br />
PEACE Group.”<br />
This is what a PEACE Group at Prince of Peace<br />
is all about. It is about loving and caring for<br />
each other while being in the word of God. It is<br />
about being a family who does life together. As<br />
I sit back and look at PEACE Groups at POP, I<br />
imagine the human body, a representation of the<br />
body of Christ. Worshiping together is the head.<br />
The head makes everything in the body go, as it<br />
is with worship and the church. Worship is where<br />
we learn about, pray to, connect to, and praise<br />
our Lord. It is the center of what we do as the<br />
body of Christ. I see serving others as the hands<br />
and feet of a person. It is doing what is needed<br />
to help others and to be the body of Christ for<br />
others around us. Finally, I see groups at POP as<br />
the heart of POP, the life blood of the body of<br />
Christ.<br />
If you are in a group, please know I am<br />
praying for you daily. If you would like to join<br />
a group, please reach out by texting “Get<br />
Connected” to 97000 or email Pastor Matt<br />
Koenig, Discipleship Pastor.<br />
FALL <strong>2019</strong> | PRINCE OF PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 7
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