G4 Care Groups

Find Support and Recovery.

What are G4 Groups? 

G4 is a lay-led, group-based counseling ministry built around two nine-step models of change. G4 provides a context for participants to invest a season of their life overcoming a life-dominating struggle of sin or suffering. With the support of their fellow group members, G4 participants work through a biblically based curriculum focused on their primary life struggle.

G4 Group Topics

The topics listed are the ones we currently offer.

GriefShare
Have you or someone you know lost a loved one? Please consider extending a personal invitation to GriefShare, where each individual will find comfort while grieving. We welcome our church family as well as friends, family, and neighbors from the community.

Often, others want to help those who are grieving, but they don't know how. That's where GriefShare comes in. Our trained facilitators have been there, and they have successfully rebuilt their lives after loss. They want it for you as well and will walk with you on the journey toward hope and healing. If you or someone you know is suffering, we'd love for you to join us.
REGISTER FOR GRIEFSHARE
Divorce Care
*Not currently offered
Divorce is one of the most painful experiences you can face. So many emotions. So many challenges. You don't have to go through it alone. DivorceCare offers support, answers, and practical tools to help you manage the many stresses of separation and divorce and find healing. DivorceCare is a 13-week support group that helps you heal from the pain of separation or divorce. The experience involves three main components designed to help in that healing: video, group discussion, and participant workbook.
REGISTER FOR DIVORCE CARE
Depression and Anxiety
Begin to feel freedom from the burden of anxiety or depression. This group is designed to help individuals learn how the scripture can provide rest and reassurance that Christ is in control.
Navigating
Destructive Relationships
Do you struggle with allowing others decisions to dictate how you live your life? This group is meant to help individuals find freedom from living a life that is controlled by others through learning how Christ has created us to live healthily in community. We hope to help participants to understand and establish healthy boundaries.
Overcoming Substance Abuse
For individuals who have struggled to overcome an addiction to a particular substance such as drug or alcohol. This group is meant to provide a new understanding, strategies, and accountability for those who participate.
Men's Sexual Integrity
Whether you struggle with habitual pornography or have walked through an affair, this group is designed with the help of community to point individuals away from sin and towards Christ. Learn truth, strategies, and experience grace as you pursue purity.
Women's Sexual Integrity
*Not currently offered
Whether you struggle with habitual pornography or have walked through an affair, this care group is designed to help individuals turn away from sin and towards Christ. Women’s Purity invites women to pursue purity from the struggle with sexual sin. Learn biblical insights and life skills to give you the tools to more fully engage in biblical community. 
Women's Post-Abortive
This powerful group offers help and healing for each hurting woman on her personal journey towards redemption and freedom. The weekly discussions will help reveal God’s redeeming love, forgiveness and peace, while uncovering the truths of who you are in Christ.
Chronic Pain
and Illness
In this group, we seek to balance sharing our grief in authentic and honest ways, while also engaging in gratitude and hopefulness. We provide a place where people can share both their trials and their successes, and in response, receive encouragement, comfort, edification, and help.
Women’s Trauma
This group is for women who have found themselves suffering after a traumatic event in their life. No matter the nature of the trauma we desire to show you the comfort and healing that can be offered through the power of the Gospel. We seek to care through experience, understanding, and wisdom.
REGISTER FOR G4 GROUPS



What does G4 Stand For?


G - is for gospel-centered groups. Rather than making an issue, struggle, or sin the centerpiece of our groups, we strive to make the gospel of Christ the core of all our groups. Our identity is not found in an issue but in an individual — the person of Christ.
4 - designates the four categories of groups offered:
Recovery - Groups for those struggling with a life-dominating sin, addiction, or traumatic life event.
Support - Groups for those needing encouragement and support during a period of suffering or hardship.
Therapeutic educational - Groups for those needing information and/or resources about a specific life issue.
Process - Groups for those needing help processing problematic emotions or multiple life stressors.

Seven Core Values

1. Bible-based and gospel-centered.
2. Recognize the difference between sin and suffering.
3. Built on honesty and transparency.
4. Uphold confidentiality.
5. Avoid struggle-based identity.
6. Blend discipleship, accountability, and a guided process.
7. Transition into the churches discipleship ministries.




For more information please contact Kim Ruda at kimr@springlakechurch.org