Summer Equipping Classes

We want to engage with organizations in our city and worldwide in a way that's helpful to the organization and the people they serve.

When Helping Hurts offers a different framework for thinking about poverty and its alleviation. Rather than simply defining it as a lack of material things, we'll look at the root of the issue: broken relationships with God, self, others, and the rest of creation.

Teachers: Rosa Torres & Kyle Guerrero

This class aims to take the fear and mystery out of understanding your Bible by equipping the believer with the skills to interpret the Scriptures with confidence and joy. The class is taught in a fun, practical and interactive way to help followers of Jesus become good at connecting with the Word of God and the God of the Word.

Teacher: Jack Shiflett

One of our Foundational Practices at The Well is "embracing the Gospel at a point in time and over time." By digging into the book of Romans and other Scriptures, we'll explore what it looks like to apply more of God's Word to our lives, depend more on the Holy Spirit to change us, and to grow more in victory over sin.

The heart of Embracing the Gospel is to embrace becoming who God envisions us to be: Christlike.

Teacher: Josh Hawley

The Sabbath is a twenty-four-hour period set aside to stop, rest, delight, and worship. It is the best day of the week. In our era of exhaustion, emotional unhealth, and spiritual stagnation, few things are more necessary than the recovery of this practice. Through this class, we will learn the heart behind the practice of the Sabbath and how we can begin implementing it into our weekly rhythms of life.

Teachers: Matt Berg & Peter McMullen

Grief is a natural human reaction to the emotional pain caused by significant loss. This class will provide a Christ-based curriculum that fosters a safe environment to process loss stories and offer tools to make healthy choices that lead to healing. Losing someone creates a void in our hearts. God can fill that void. However, he expects us to also work through it. Just as we pray to God for healing from an illness, we also go to the doctor. Similarly, there are steps we can take to help us overcome our emotional pain.

Teacher: Dr. Tamar Sevajian, LMFT

Required Resources: Participants should purchase a copy of "Grief & Restoration: A Guide for the Christian Griever after a Significant Loss." Copies will be available in person. 

We are the image bearers of Christ on the earth. Therefore, reconciliation is not an effort to be made—it is our calling to be lived out. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 confirms our calling, as the apostle Paul declares, “Everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed the message of reconciliation to us.”

Teacher: Joe Buitrago

This course is designed to look at Jesus’ example of how to practically implement a neighboring ministry where you live, work, go to school or play. We will focus on providing examples, strategies, and opportunities to live into Jesus’ command given to all his followers: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:39.)

Teacher: Jim Lloyd

A course designed to equip you and fortify your faith, plus learn how to engage friends, family, and strangers in natural conversations about their faith. We will address objections, questions, and criticisms that may arise in this age of deconstruction, skepticism, and spiritual rebellion. We will also learn tactics to help us get into and navigate gospel conversations.

Teacher: Jared Ramirez & Mark Snee