Hope Groups

Alpha is an opportunity to explore life and the Christian faith in a friendly. open and informal environment. It’s a ten-week course that meets casually around a meal. Essentially, Alpha is a safe place to explore life’s biggest questions with friendly hosts and others searching for answers, too. You are welcome to explore faith at a pace that is comfortable for you. Invite a seeking friend to join you.

This series deals with fleshly strongholds or “root issues.” These strongholds are destructive habit structures of thinking. They produce anger, lust, poverty, sickness, manipulation, insecurity, and emotional pain These resulting behaviors can all be exposed at their root source and cut off.

Strongholds are habit structures of thought that exist in the area of our souls.  They are so hidden within our souls that they have the ability to influence the thought patterns of our lives.  Our childhood wounds and experiences create these ungodly beliefs in us, which lead to the strongholds and incorrect views of God in our lives.

Strongholds have a sick core, or center, like a boil, that sends forth poison in a person twisting thoughts and feelings throughout the soul. This series will help you discover true freedom as you break free from the strongholds that have held you bound.

The ten sessions include:

1. Sea of Fear: Freedom From Entanglements
2. Characteristics of Strongholds
3. House of Pain: Foundations of How A Stronghold is Built Pt 1
4. Foundations of How a Stronghold is Built Pt 2
5. Principles of Laws of Relationship Pt 1
6. Principles of Laws of Relationships Pt 2
7. Breaking Free of Bitter Root Expectancies
8. Renewing the Mind for Supernatural Breakthroughs
9. Principles of Freedom
10. Principles of Freedom: Dying to the Process

Registration Fee: $27 // Scholarships available.

Try smarter, not harder.

Let’s face it. You’ve been trying harder and it hasn’t worked. What starts out as a moral problem quickly becomes a brain problem. Often, men who’ve tried to quit have failed because they don’t understand the brain. Understanding the brain is so important in this battle. Men in sexual bondage go through a cycle of triggering, ritual, and acting out. Discover how to renew your mind and break destructive patterns.

Registration Fee: $30 // Scholarships available.

DivorceCare is a special weekly support group and seminar conducted by people who understand what you are experiencing. You will learn how to deal with the pain of the past and look forward to rebuilding your life.

Support Groups

• Become part of a small support group of people who are also experiencing separation and divorce.
• Meet others who understand what you are feeling and who will be able to offer you encouragement.
• Talk about the information presented during the DivorceCare seminar.

DivorceCare Seminar

• DivorceCare features 13 dynamic video seminars featuring 32 renowned experts on divorce and recovery.
• Begin attending DivorceCare on any week.
• Each session is “self-contained,” and you can continue through the next cycle to view any of the topics you have not seen.

Registration Fee: $22 // Scholarships available.

DIVORCECARE “Surviving the Holidays” SEMINAR

TUESDAY, NOV. 12 // 7:00PM // ROOM 212

Are you recently divorced or separated? Do you know someone who is? Join us for this encouraging seminar. When a marriage ends, the holiday season can be especially painful. This seminar helps participants face challenges, and you’ll learn:

• How to deal with emotions
• Helpful tips for surviving social events
• Ways to help children through the holidays
• How to see hope for the future

There is no need to do a register separately for these seminars if you already regularly attend these groups. If you have not previously attended, please register below.

The cost to attend either seminar is $10.

Worry. Fear. Pain. You think something might be wrong with your loved one—your son or daughter, your husband or wife, your mom or dad—but you can’t be sure. Can it just be a phase they’re going through, or can it be something worse? Can it even be addiction? Are you looking for a place to find education, inspiration and a community of others that are dealing with the same issues? If so, Hope is Alive Ministries wants to invite you to attend our family support groups, called “Finding Hope.” Each week you will have the opportunity to learn more about addiction, find tools to the help those you love and find hope to help you as you journey down this treacherous road. Don’t miss this opportunity to find the HOPE you’ve been searching for.

Registration: no fees.

Facing Tomorrow
GriefShare is a special seminar and support group for people grieving the loss of someone close. This group is sponsored by people who understand what you are experiencing and want to offer you comfort and encouragement during this difficult time.

Each GriefShare session includes a video seminar and group discussion. The videos feature top experts on grief recovery, dramatic reenactments about living with grief and real-life stories of people who have experienced losses like yours. During the small group discussion time, you’ll have the opportunity to interact with others who have experienced a recent loss, learn about their experiences and share your own. A GriefShare workbook assists you with note taking, journaling and grief study.

When to Begin
You are welcome to begin attending the GriefShare group at any session. Each is “self-contained,” so you do not have to attend in sequence. You will find encouragement and help whenever you begin. You will be able to continue with GriefShare through the next cycle and view any of the videos you have not seen.

Registration Fee: $20 // Scholarships available.

GRIEFSHARE “Surviving the Holidays” SEMINAR

TUESDAY, NOV. 12 // 10:00AM // ROOM 216
TUESDAY, NOV. 12 // 7:00PM // ROOM 219

Are you wondering how you will survive the weeks surrounding Thanksgiving and Christmas? Are you dreading these holidays, knowing that everything has changed and that happy memories from past years can’t be recreated? This seminar is especially for people who are grieving a loved one’s death. You’ll learn:

• How to deal with the many emotions you’ll face during the holidays
• What to do about traditions and other coming changes
• Helpful tips for surviving social events
• How to discover hope for your future

There is no need to do a register separately for these seminars if you already regularly attend these groups. If you have not previously attended, please register below.

The cost to attend either seminar is $10.

We believe everyone can benefit from a Life Recovery experience. We all have struggles in life, struggles with addictions, food, depression, anxiety and relationships to name a few. This twelve step support group uses the Life Recovery Bible and Workbook to provide a biblical guide through the 12 steps. Take the first steps to transformation: from death to life, from addiction to recovery in the supportive environment of a caring group of like minded companions.

“Although the path of recovery involves hard and sometimes painful work, it is worth the effort. God will meet us on this path as we become willing to take each step toward new life. As we apply ourselves, we lose our old coping mechanism of excessive consumption and experience spiritual growth. Honesty, humility, and courage are components of the vital faith that can allow us to face any circumstance, difficulty, or feeling with grace and strength.” (The Life Recovery Workbook)

Registration Fee: $20 // Scholarships available.

Have you ever looked back on a comment, response, or action you took and asked yourself, ‘Why did I do that?’ Do you feel as if you are losing the battle to control your thoughts? Most likely you’ve tried to change in the past, but your struggles still persist.  Pastor Levi Lusko will help you to come to terms with the reality of the battle and show you the weapons that God has given you to engage in the fight. He will guide you through what is an often confusing and disorienting battlefield so you can rise up and accomplish all that God has for you. In the end, you will find it is not enough to just participate in the war—you have to be an active combatant and know the tactics of your enemy. Get back to the life God wants you to have, change your thinking so you can change your living, and become the difference maker God sees when He sees you

Registration Fee: $22 // Participant guide and 40-day interactive journey book with daily readings and journal questions are included with registration.

Overwhelmed by the responsibilities and emotions of caring for a loved one with exceptional needs? Caregiving can be very difficult and consuming work. It can leave you feeling overwhelmed, isolated and stressed. The Heart of the Caregiver™ will connect you to the life-giving comfort and support found in scripture. This 10-week study includes a book and weekly video that includes meaningful scripture,  journal prompting, and probing questions for you and other caregivers to share in discussion with one another, along with beautiful, heart-felt prayers. You will come to see yourself, your situation and the person you care for in a whole new way – through the light of God’s amazing love!

Registration Fee: $20

Transformed Season Three

You will see with your own eyes, that the Bible is sufficient for all life, godliness, and emotional challenges.

Registration Fee: $15 // Includes study guide.