We’re here to help you walk with Christ 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

Intensive, focused discipleship in gospel community

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 the 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 tjaspers@christaz.org.

Spring 2024 Soul Care groups are listed below.

  • Healing and Wholeness After Betrayal

    For women who have experienced a devastating marriage betrayal, there is hope in Jesus Christ. Joining a Soul Care Group with other Christian women who are on the same healing path can be a significant step towards integrating hope and wholeness back into your story after the discovery of your husband’s affair, pornography addiction, or other form of sexual betrayal. Betrayal and Beyond is a 12-week small 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. This 12-week season is the first of two seasons. Following registration, you will receive a confidential phone call to receive more information and to discuss questions you may have.

    Registration fee includes the Betrayal and Beyond workbook for both seasons, journal, and video lessons.

    Tuesdays, 6:30–8:30 pm • Ray & Higley • Jan 16–Apr 9 • Cost: $70 • Home address will be provided after registration

    Registration for this group is closed.

  • Learning God's Purposes for Finances and Stewardship

    Let God’s word transform your journey from debt and discontent, to true financial freedom. Rather than attack symptoms alone, this 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.

    Approximately two hours of preparation are required each week. Participants complete a homework assignment, memorize Scripture, and pray for one another daily.

    The curriculum for this group is from Crown Financial Ministries. Registration fee includes The Worst Financial Mistakes in the Bible and How You Can Avoid Them by Chuck Bentley, a Do Well workbook, and a Crown Money Map.

    Thursday Group

    10 weeks • Thursdays, 6:30–8:30 pm • Germann & Arizona • Feb 1–Apr 18 • Cost: $45 • Home address will be provided after registration

    Register for Thursdays →

  • Finding Hope While Entrusting Loved Ones to God’s Purposes

    One of life’s great burdens is to have a loved one reject Jesus and decide to live life in their own way. How does a Christian deal with this heartbreak? This soul care group is designed to sink faith-filled pillars of hope into the hearts of women as they pray for and love their wandering prodigal.

    Registration fee includes From Heartbroken to Hopeful by Shirley Elliott.

    Thursdays, 6:30–8:30 pm • Jan 25–Apr 11 • Cost: $20 • Please enter in the main lobby

    Registration for this group is closed.

  • Every marriage that is thriving, is because it is a marriage that is being intentionally invested in. Re|engage is a marriage enrichment Soul Care Group. Regardless of where your marriage is, Re|engage helps couples reconnect, reignite, and resurrect their marriages. Whether you would rate your marriage as a 9 out of 10 or a 1 out of 10, Re|engage will provide both husbands and wives the needed structure and content to invest in the growth of their marriage.

    Re|engage is for married couples only. Childcare will be provided during each Re|engage meeting.

    Registration fee per couple includes a Re|engage workbook for both husband and wife.

    There are two steps to being a part of Re|engage:

    1. Each spouse submits their own application to participate in this Soul Care Group. Please apply using the button below.

    2. After both spouses have submitted their own application, a registration link will be sent to the couple.

    Thursdays, 6:30–8:30 pm • Jan 18–May 2 • Cost: $95 per couple • Please enter in the main lobby

    NOTE: There is limited capacity for this spring season. Once capacity has been reached, a waitlist for future seasons will be created.

    Application for this group is closed.

  • If you are a woman who has struggled with lust and pornography, there is hope. Though you may feel trapped in a destructive cycle that is keeping you distant from God, you are not alone. It is time to break down the wall of shame between yourself and your God in order to drink from the well of grace, forgiveness, and freedom God has for you. Through the cross and empty tomb, Christ has provided for us real victory that brings real hope for a very real battle. This group will directly address this struggle and equip women with gospel truths for victory.

    Registration fee includes Quenched by Jessica Harris along with a study guide, and A Gospel Primer by Milton Vincent.

    Thursdays, 6:30–8:30 pm • Jan 18–Apr 18 • Cost: $35 • Please enter in the main lobby

    Registration for this group is closed.

 

Soul Care Mentoring

Intentional, informal conversations with a trusted discipler

Mentoring gives you the opportunity to meet individually with someone further along in their faith. Our Soul Care 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 2–3 months with meetings on a regular basis.

Questions about Soul Care mentoring? Email esees@christaz.org.

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.

 

Soul Care Staff