What is the Well?
-Orientation/Membership Class where you’ll get to know yourself, other people like you, h2o, and God in a way that you may have not thought was possible
-Give you a feel for what our church is about and what it looks like to be a member of our church
-Take a look inside of you and see how God has wired you and how that fits into God’s “big picture”
-Expose you to people who have similar goals that you do and are going through the same things that
you are.
At h2o, we desire to call people to a radical minimum standard. In order to best do that, we created the Well. As mentioned above, the Well is designed to be a lot of different things. But we hope that it will give you a taste of what it feels like to be a member of our church – living out a radical minimum standard.
At h2o, we don’t have a formal membership process, but we definitely have members. Members in our church are those who are living out a radical minimum standard of what it means to be a Christ follower.
In summary, we created the Well to expose you to this radical minimum standard. To do this, for 7 weeks we ask you to:
1. Be mentored
“Having a mentor was really scary for me to think about at first, but it was absolutely great! I didn’t feel obligated to meet, I actually wanted to meet each week”
“I felt that my mentor was a true blessing to me. I couldn’t have asked God for someone better.”
“My mentor and I got so close so quickly... we got along great and had amazing conversations.”
“My mentor was AWESOME! We are extremely alike and I learned many important spiritually related things.”
“It is a great opportunity to develop an awesome friendship with another Christian. A friendship that challenges you spiritually and makes you question if what you’re doing in life is what God calls you to be doing.”
“I really made an awesome friend.”
“We could talk about whatever we wanted.”
“I feel like I’ve learned how to dive deep into someone else’s life.”
2. Attend the seven 2-hour sessions
Outline for The Well (see h2o schedule for specific dates). A disciple is
·Week 1 – A Follower – Developing A Radical Minimum Standard
·Week 2 – A Student – Learning the Spiritual Disciplines
·Week 3 – A New Citizen - Pursuing Holiness
·Week 4 – A Servant Leader – Discovering your Spiritual Gifts
·Week 5 – A Missionary – Developing a Life Mission
·Week 6 – A Soldier – Engaging in the Spiritual Realm
·Week 7 - Wrap Up – Party like it’s 1999
“The classes were fun.”
“[These] classes taught me more than I ever learned in 19 years of going to church.”
“God really spoke to me during the time.”
“It is a time commitment that they must follow through with.”
“I learned a lot about my gifting and how to use it.”
3. Be involved in a Life group
“I especially enjoyed being placed in a Life group.”
4. Serve in some way on a weekly basis
“I learned how God can use what I most enjoy doing.”
“I really felt helpful. Those that I helped constantly made me feel appreciated.”
“It really makes you feel involved right away.”
“I felt like I was contributing to the church by being able to do something that helped people out.”
“I got to meet awesome new people and feel I was part of God’s community.”
“I felt involved in h2o instead of just being a [bystander].”
5. Do reading assignments which will include one chapter out of “An Unstoppable Force”
“It was a lot of work, but the experiences and the growth that occurred were well worth it.”
6. Be ready and willing to have fun and learn at the same time
“I feel that some of my strongest friendships that have developed have been through the Well.”
“I met some very cool people who I can maintain a relationship with even after the Well is over.”
Other testimonies:
“The Well has been an experience I’ll never forget. God is truly moving through it and using it.”
“God actually spoke to me during the time.”
“It is a great way to meet people and at the same time grow with God, with yourself, and with others.”
“You make a lot of friends and you really come out knowing what being in the church is all about.”
“You get the chance to meet more people than in any other h2o group [or activity].”
“It was neat to hear about how h2o starts new churches and how they’re planted.”
“This is definitely something anyone interested in (or passionate about) h2o should be involved with (even if you’re older like me – I didn’t feel weird being a junior in the Well)”