We’re here to help you know and experience the power of the gospel in whatever situation you find yourself. Whether it’s bad choices, bondage to sin, or just trying to make it through another day, Jesus is the answer. We want to help you know him, trust him, and be transformed by him.

If you need immediate help, please reach out to a crisis line.


Soul Care Groups at Gilbert

Soul Care Groups give you a safe place to deepen your faith, tackle spiritual challenges, and find strength to persevere. Join an intentional, grace-filled community centered on God’s word and the gospel—a community where you can discover hope and wisdom to navigate whatever you’re facing. You won’t regret taking a season to focus on the power of the gospel and God's wisdom for the Christian life.

Questions about Soul Care Groups? Email Kylie Fletcher at kfletcher@christaz.org.

Freedom Groups • Spring 2025

Experience hope in suffering and victory over sin

True and lasting freedom is found in Jesus. Whether you’re facing a painful season of suffering or a difficult battle with sin, Freedom Groups offer help, hope, and healing in the gospel. As you journey through Scripture, you’ll find that freedom means more than coping. In Christ, there is freedom for sufferers to be comforted, there is freedom for sinners to be restored, and there is freedom for wanderers to be brought back to Christ.

Tuesdays, 6:30–8:30 pm • January 14–April 22 (Except for Feb 25 and Apr 15) • Cost: $45 per person • Room: Gymnasium • Childcare unavailable

Re|engage • Fall 2025

Reconnect and enrich your marriage

A better marriage starts here. Whether your marriage needs to be reignited or completely resurrected, Re|engage is a safe place for you and your spouse to reconnect. This marriage enrichment Soul Care Group will help you work on your relationship together, whether your marriage needs saving or you just want to take it from good to great. You’ll gain practical tools and biblical guidance on how to navigate life together and invest in your marriage.

Married couples only. Childcare provided.

Applications will open late summer 2025.

 

Other Spring 2025 Groups

  • If abortion is part of your story, we want you to know you are not alone. If you are suffering from an internal ache and sadness that you can’t name, if you don’t feel like anyone will understand the conflict you’ve felt between relief and regret, we understand because we’ve been there too. This group will meet you with compassion and hope, led by someone who’s made that same choice and now walks in freedom through Christ. This group is confidential and we will protect your privacy.

    Tuesdays, 6:30–8:30 pm • January 14–March 25 (Except for Feb 25) • Cost: $15 per person • Location: TBD • Childcare unavailable

    Apply

  • Hope for women who have experienced a devastating sexual betrayal is found in Jesus Christ. Joining a group with Christian women who are on the same healing path can be a first step towards integrating hope and wholeness back into your story. Betrayal and Beyond is an 8-month group experience that provides a confidential and safe place to process your experience, learn practical tools to navigate the confusion, and meditate on what the Bible says to the broken-hearted. This support and learning takes place in a grace-filled and confidential small group of women. There is healing to be had after the discovery of your husband’s affair, pornography addiction, or other forms of sexual betrayal.

    Betrayal & Beyond is a home-based group meeting near Ray Rd. & Higley Rd.

    Tuesdays, 6:30–8:30 pm • November 5–May 13

    After applying, you will receive a confidential phone call to learn more and discuss if this group is right for you.

    Application is closed

  • No one willingly enters into the world of disability. Every disability requires a caregiver. Caregivers live with the arduous task of providing care to loved ones with disability, chronic illness, suffering, and terminal and debilitating illnesses. The purpose of this group is to offer support and gospel hope to the caregivers.

    Caregivers is a home-based group meeting near Queen Creek Rd. & Gilbert Rd.

    Thursdays, 6:30–8:30 pm • September 19–April 17

    Apply

  • Let God’s word transform your journey from debt and discontent, to true financial freedom. Rather than attack symptoms alone, this Soul Care group will help you apply biblical teaching to the heart of the problem. You will learn God’s purposes for finances so that you might experience lasting change and true hope. Each week’s lesson has two components—an in-depth Bible study and hands-on financial exercises that will help you apply newly-gained wisdom to your life and finances.

    This is a home-based Soul Care group. Approximately two hours of preparation are required each week. Participants complete a homework assignment, memorize Scripture, and pray for one another daily.

    Tuesdays, 6:30–8:30 pm • January 14–March 25 • Cost: $45 per person • Location: TBD • Childcare unavailable

    Register

  • DivorceCare is a Soul Care group where caring people come alongside you as you find healing from the pain of separation or divorce. During this 13-week, video-based support group program, you’ll find helpful counsel to manage the emotional turmoil and practical tools for decision-making. Throughout this Soul Care group you will become more deeply rooted in the grace of Christ.

    Each meeting will include three segments:

    • Video with experts

    • Discussion with purpose

    • Personal reflection

    Tuesdays, 6:30–8:30 pm • January 14–April 22 (Except for Feb 25 and Apr 15) • Cost: $25 per person • Room: TBD • Childcare unavailable

    Apply

  • GriefShare is a Soul Care group designed to provide the grieving with a safe and welcoming place where people who understand the difficult emotions of grief are equipped to journey the path that is ahead of them. Through this 13-week group, you’ll discover what to expect in the days ahead and what’s “normal” in grief. Since there are no neat, orderly stages of grief, you’ll learn helpful ways of coping with grief, in all its unpredictability— while gaining solid support that is rooted in the hope that we have in Christ.

    Tuesdays, 6:30–8:30 pm • January 14–April 22 (Except for Feb 25 and Apr 15) • Cost: $25 per person • Room: TBD • Childcare unavailable

    Apply


Soul Care Mentoring

Mentoring gives you the opportunity to meet individually with someone further along in their faith. Our Mentors are eager to help you follow Jesus and apply God’s word to your particular life situation. Mentoring is goal-focused and typically lasts 3–4 months with meetings on a regular basis.

Premarital Mentoring

Premarital mentoring offers soon-to-be-married couples a practical vision of Christ-centered marriage that is realistic, hopeful, and actionable. Over the course of eight sessions, couples are guided through issues like conflict, expectations, communication, finances, and intimacy, showing how each can be successfully resolved with Christ at the center of the marriage.

Mentoring FAQs

  • Mentoring is biblical, gospel-centered discipleship focused on heart transformation through ongoing repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. It’s not life coaching, talk therapy, or crisis intervention (in the common understanding of those terms).

  • Soul Care mentors are mature, vetted members of Christ Church who have a passion for discipling. We train mentors on a regular basis and we oversee all mentoring relationships, but mentors are not certified or professional counselors.

  • Mentoring is a ministry of the church and is offered free of charge. The cost of mentoring is the cost of commitment.

  • Sometimes counseling is in fact the better choice. In the initial stage of assessing your situation, if we determine that counseling is the best option, we will refer you to a trusted counselor outside the church. We don’t see this as a hand-off, but as an invitation to someone with training, skill, and experience to join in our effort to care for you.

  • If you have an existing relationship with a mature, respected Christian who can help (for example, someone in your community group), we encourage you to consider seeking help from that person first. We want what's best for you, and often it’s best to seek help from someone you know and see regularly. The value of the relational equity you already have and the long-term community you already share should not be overlooked. Having said that, we do understand that there are times when seeking help from someone outside your closest circles is best.

    Additionally, mentoring is not the best fit for someone:

    • Needing immediate crisis care or counseling

    • Actively abusing drugs, alcohol, or prescription medicine

    • Unwilling to submit to biblical authority

    • At risk of harming themselves or others

    • Needing professional supervision or care

  • In the initial phase, our Soul Care staff will work with you to understand the situation you’re facing. If we determine mentoring is the right path forward, we’ll begin looking for a mentor that fits you well. Once we find one, we’ll pair you and let your mentor take it from there. We’ll check in with both parties throughout the mentoring relationship to make sure everything is going well.

Still have questions about Soul Care Mentoring? Email Erin Sees at esees@christaz.org

 

Soul Care Staff