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 Jolliff
United Methodist Church
- "Growing with the Spirit! Look
what we can do with God's help!"
- 1900
Jolliff Road
Chesapeake,
Virginia 23321
Ph. (757) 488-2784 Fax. (757) 488-1377
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Shared Prayer Time – 9:45 a.m. – 10:00
a.m. in the sanctuary
Individual Class Meetings – 10:00 a.m. –
10:45 a.m.
L.I.F˛.E.
Living in
Fellowship for Eternity
Nikki Robbins,
teacher
- A
new vibrant Sunday School class full
of love and acceptance.
Currently, the class is studying the
Purpose Driven Life. Please
come and join in our lively
discussions. The purpose-drive life
helps readers understand God’s
incredible plan for their
lives. This book will enable you to
see the big picture of what life is
all about and begin to live the life
God created for you to live. We are
planned for God’s pleasure, so your
first purpose is to offer real
worship. We were formed for God’s
family, so your second purpose is to
enjoy real fellowship. We were
created to become like Christ, so
your third purpose is to learn real
discipleship. We were shaped for
serving God, so your fourth purpose
is to practice real ministry. We
were made for mission, so your fifth
purpose is to live out real
evangelism.
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John
Wyant Bible Class
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Bob Moss,
teacher
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Joan Blair, co-teacher
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The class name
was adopted about 55 years ago. John
Wyant was Jolliff’s first full time
minister. Our class membership contains
adults that are mature with a youthful
spirit. Our Christian faith and
fellowship is shared through bible
study, social gatherings and through
missions in the community. This Sunday
School class takes a very active role
working with the church’s annual fish
fry – which is now twenty years in the
making. We also always remember our
shut-ins with visits, flowers and gift
baskets. We are avid supporters of
Jolliff’s scholarship fund and we also
provide food baskets to families in
need. Our monthly meetings are to plan
our goals and have social community time
with one another. The spiritual
strength we gain by our friendship and
Christian love makes our class worthy to
belong. We welcome all
who want to be a part of our class.
Faith
Journey Class
Mike
Gordon,
teacher
Carrie & Jeff Houck,
teachers
The
Faith Journey class was founded
while Jolliff was going through a
little “growth spurt” as a number of
new families joined the congregation
in the early 1990’s. The name was
given by our pastor at the time,
Rev. Ben Hadley-Goggin, to describe
the course of study we were
undertaking at the time and, after
that, the name just stuck!
This is
an eclectic Sunday School class, open to
adults of all ages. Our study
themes vary from examinations of
specific books in the Bible, Biblical
themes, and Biblical history, but at the
core of our conversations is the issue
of “Christian living in the real world.”
Intermingled with that, we discuss the
concerns of stresses of the workplace,
raising children (and grandchildren),
dealing with aging parents,
relationships as couples, relations as
singles; you name it. We share a
lot of laughter in our group and we
laugh most heartily when we are laughing
at ourselves. We share the leadership
role between our members; practically
all of us have led the study discussions
at one time or another as we are called
the Spirit (or each other)! Our
current study examines the similarities
and differences of our Christian faith
from that of others. We expect
this topic to last to the end of the
calendar year. Don’t be a stranger to
the Faith Journey Class! We
welcome everyone as we meet in the
“Upper Room,” just to the right at the
top of the stairs in the sanctuary
building, at 10:00 a.m. every Sunday.
Jim
Karnes Sunday School Class
We are the
Jim Karnes Sunday School class. We
meet each Sunday from 10:00 a.m. – 11:45
a.m. Our class is open to all
church attendees, whether you attend on
a weekly basis or intermittently (we
welcome all guests). We study the
word of God from the bible and books on
faith. Our journey as a class is
to come to understand how our faith can
sustain us, how our faith can enlighten
others, and how our faith can enable us
to fulfill God’s purpose for our lives.
- Our
class is names for the late Jim
Karnes, a man who modeled to us the
faith of God’s promise. Jim
was a retired Methodist minister, a
retired airborne ranger, and a
tireless student/teacher of the
martial arts. Many were
touched locally by Jim’s martial
arts teachings at the YMCA and
Karate for Christ events. In
all of his teachings, Jim combined
the strength and concentration of
the martial arts styles with a
fervent testimony of God’s love and
promise.
- Jim
battled Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
(CLL) for eight years with a
determination that left everyone
astonished. He taught martial
arts classes while taking
chemotherapy. He taught our
Sunday School class right up to the
very week he passed. He was a
determined warrior on the
battlefield, he was determined
warrior in life, and he was a
determined warrior in service to
God. Come and join us as we
strive to model Jim’s faith.
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