Beginning Monday, August 2, Deacon John Laffoon will offer a Church History / Theology reading group. You can join the group in our Library (Room 7) from 12:00-1:00 p.m. or 7:00-8:00 p.m. Our first book will be The Global Church: The First Eight Centuries by Donald Fairbairn. Please purchase the book and read the first two chapters before our first meeting. We will read and discuss two chapters each week. If you have any questions, please contact John at jlaffoon@christchurchphoenix.org.

Beginning Tuesday, August 3, Deacon John Laffoon will offer a group study of the Intertestamental period (the time between the Old Testament and the New Testament). We will read from the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books. You can find these books online for free or you can purchase a physical ESV Bible with the Apocrypha from Anglican House Publishers. You can join the group in the Parish Hall from 12:00-1:30 p.m. or 7:00-8:30 p.m. Three recommended, not required, books for this class are Introducing the Apocrypha by David A. deSilva, Reading the New Testament as Christian Scripture by Campbell and Pennington, and CASKET EMPTY by David Palmer (New Testament). If you have any questions, please contact John at jlaffoon@christchurchphoenix.org.