Small Group Studies for Adults
We offer a variety of small group studies throughout the year. Study groups for women meet on Tuesday evenings and Thursday mornings. There are groups on Wednesday evenings (seasonal; April - August) with a variety of topics. For additional information, please contact Rev. Beth Brown Shugart, Associate Pastor, by e-mail at bshugart@duluthumc.org.
“Simply Psalms” Classes Will Resume on January 7 and 8, 2025
Simply Psalms classes will take a break for the remainder of 2024. After the Christmas and New Years holiday, Simply Psalms classes will resume on January 7th and 8th, 2025.
For additional information, please contact Rev. Beth Brown Shugart by e-mail at
bshugart@duluthumc.org, or call 770-476-3776, ext. 128.
Women Studying Together “Odds and Ends” Study
You are invited to join the Women Studying Together study group for their current study titled “Odds and Ends” which continues through November 21st. Led by Jenny Masterson, “Odds and Ends” is made up of lesson ideas and books Jenny has collected over the years and has not got around to using them, kind of like the odds and ends that you have collected over the years but are just not sure what to do with.
Join us on Thursday mornings from 10 to 11:30 in room F145, located on the 1st floor of the Sheldon Family Life Center. The “Odds and Ends” study series is very flexible, and Bible references and topics will be given out each week at class for the next week’s study, not all at once. “Odds and Ends” will focus on familiar stories and topics so everyone can join in.
Class topics will be e-mailed out weekly or you can contact Jenny Masterson by e-mail at
jennybobm@comcast.net or call 678-591-0800 for more information.
Men Studying Together Meets on Thursday Mornings
The Men Studying Together group meets for Bible/book studies on Thursday mornings from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in room F207, located on the 2nd floor of the Sheldon Family Life Center. This study is led by Rev. Terry Tippens.
All are invited to join us, and every class time will allow for individual input and group discussion. Please contact Tracy Brinker by e-mail at tbrinker@duluthumc.org or at 770-476-3776 for more information.
The Screwtape Letters Study
Rev. Dr. C. Kay Fuino will lead a study of the book The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis beginning on Wednesday, September 4th. The Screwtape Letters, one of the author’s most celebrated writings, is a satire on letters written from the demon “Screwtape” to his nephew “Wormwood” about how to tempt someone into the world of the demon. The book has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the unique vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to “Our Father Below.”
At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation—and triumph over it—ever written.
The Screwtape Letters study will meet on Wednesday afternoons, September 4th through November 20th, from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. in room F145, located on the 1st first floor of the Sheldon Family Life Center. There are thirty-one letters in The Screwtape Letters and we will study three each week. The book ends with an additional chapter called Screwtape's Toast.
We will use the book by C. S. Lewis and a study guide by Alan Vermilye. The book and study guide may be ordered from Amazon:
Any version of the book is fine, but you want to make sure it has Screwtape's Toast as an extra chapter. Please do not get a used study guide that already has writing in it.
If you have any questions, please contact Rev. Dr. C. Kay Fuino by e-mail at ckfuino@duluthumc.org, or call 770-476-3776, ext. 117.
Understanding God, How Our Perception of God Has Grown throughout History:
Tuesday Mornings and Wednesday Evenings
Pete Fleming is leading a class entitled Understanding God, How Our Perception of God Has Grown throughout History. This class will be offered twice each week for 10 weeks, from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays in room F154, located on the 1st floor of the Sheldon Family Life Center, and again from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesdays, in room F151, located on the 1st floor of the Sheldon Family Life Center. Choose the one that best suits your schedule.
Participants will be encouraged, but not required, to purchase the book God: A Human History by Reza Aslan. It can be purchased on Thrift Books for under $10.00. Pete will present excerpts from this and other books each week. Please let Pete know if you are interested in attending this class by contacting him by e-mail at lfleming3832@att.net or calling 678-575-3761.
Book Club to Discuss The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson: Monday, December 2nd
Rev. Beth Brown Shugart invites you to read The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson, and then join her on Monday, December 2nd, for a discussion of the book. The Book Woman’s Daughter’s main character Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good.
Picking up her mother’s old packhorse library route in the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey begins to deliver books to the remote hollers of Appalachia. Honey is looking to prove that she doesn’t need anyone telling her how to survive. But the route can be treacherous, and some folks aren’t as keen to let a woman pave her own way.
If Honey wants to bring the freedom that books provide to the families who need it most, she’s going to have to fight for her place, and along the way, learn that the extraordinary women who run the hills and hollers can make all the difference in the world.
We will meet from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in room F145, located on the 1st floor of
the Sheldon Family Life Center to discuss the book. Please contact Beth by
e-mail at bshugart@duluthumc.org,
or call 770-476-3776, ext. 128, if you have any questions.
