Sam Huizenga
I work for Home Missions in supporting mission shaped discipleship through coaching and training leaders in small groups and Coffee Break. I married to Jon Huizenga. Together we have been part of two church plants and currently serve River Rock Church in Rockford, MI. We have four children, two grandchildren and a small, needy dog named "Kiddo."
Posted in: Eloise's Story
Thanks for sharing the story of Eloise. Beautiful little girl!
Posted in: What's Old Is New Again: Experiencing Community at Kitchener Community CRC
Thanks for your contribution to the conversation about mission and community. Good stuff!
Posted in: Planting Seeds of Faith in Iowa: Story Hour and Little Lambs
Thanks for great words of encouragement!
Posted in: Profile of an East Coast Leaders’ Cluster
Thanks Bonnie. That's the idea behind clusters - we are not doing our work alone. There is strength and synergy when we work together. amen!
Posted in: Covenant and Kingdom … The DNA of The Bible
Thanks for the additional resources!
Posted in: How Are Elders and Prayer Leaders Equipped to Pray for Worship and With Others After Worship?
It would be interesting and helpful to outline the differences between healing prayer after a service and a healing prayer appointment.
I understand that time is one factor. What are other differences?
Posted in: How Are Elders and Prayer Leaders Equipped to Pray for Worship and With Others After Worship?
Just ordered the book!
Posted in: Suggestions for Adult Bible Study?
Hi Colin,
The Discover Your Bible series is a great tool for small groups to discover together what the Bible says and means. The series originated for use in Coffee Break. Today, the Discover Your Bible series is going global and being translated into many languages.
Discover Your Bible is an inductive style study. The skeleton of questions in the study guide serve to help group participants observe and interpret what the text says in order to lead to good application. The leader's guide equips the leader with extra questions to build the conversation about the text and offers leadership tips. We have several tools to support leaders as they lead Bible discovery. Here's a link to Leading Bible Discovery. There are also webinars on the Coffee Break Network page.
The purpose of Bible discovery is to equip people to read and discover for themselves and to build a conversation around the text. As people dig together into God's word, the Holy Spirit speaks. This simple method works for people new ot the Bible or experienced Christians. In other words, the Word does the work of evangelism and discipleship.
Posted in: Suggestions for Adult Bible Study?
One more thing, many of the DYB studies are available in book or PDF format. We are also working on an phone and tablet apps! Stay tuned!
Posted in: Suggestions for Adult Bible Study?
This is a great series!
Posted in: Do You Do A "Warm Up" for Your Coffee Break Bible Studies?
In the past, we started each group with a great joke!
Posted in: How Are Elders and Prayer Leaders Equipped to Pray for Worship and With Others After Worship?
One set of resources that I would like to offer is the Embers to Flames Prayer videos. The videos are a recording of a 12 week prayer training that took place last year in Holland, MI at Calvary CRC. Many have found the training to be very helpful in teaching people to deepen their prayer life.
You can find them posted on Vimeo at this link here