"I highly recommend the Seek course. The DVDs are very well done and the talks are a great spring board for faith conversations in small groups. Seek has been a helpful format in which to have faith conversations with people new(er) to faith, new(er) to our church, and with those who want to discuss big questions of faith that they’ve wondered about. Our attendees have described Seek as practical, thoughtful, and spiritually renewing."
-- Kimberly Hayman, Minneapolis
What is Seek?:
Seek is a 10-week class about faith and Jesus.
The class is designed to help you if you are:
- Wondering how faith might play a greater role in your life, or how faith could be more directly relevant to the important issues in your life
- Curious about Jesus and how Jesus might fit into a faith journey
- Definitely interested in a life of faith, but consider yourself brand new to it
- Interested in the idea of prayer or communication with God, but unsure how to pursue it
Background:
Seek actually evolved out of the Alpha course (over 13 years ago) when the Greater Boston Vineyard found that Alpha was failing to meet the questions and needs of the participants. What they discovered in the shadow of places like Harvard and MIT is that these smart people weren't looking for abstract truths about faith, they were looking for real experiential faith. If they couldn't experience God, then why would they want God?
Seek, rather than being a reason-and argument-based course, has developed into a suggestion-and experience-based course. And we've found it to be highly successful in the Cambridge/Boston area. So much so that we've also given it out to 200+ churches and individuals around the country to run and help us develop it. We recently filmed Seek as a DVD series at WGBH studios and are currently working on revising and updating the manual. Hopefully in the near future we will make the DVDs widely available, have an extended manual, and other additional resources that will make it incredibly accessible and easy for anyone to run. In the meantime, what we have right now is the original manual without all the bells and whistles which you can download here: