Cultivating What Matters Most
The goal for each group is to foster what matters most in life: entering into life with God together with others by engaging Scripture, prayer, accountability, support, spiritual growth, encouragement, and friendship.
All discipleship groups span throughout the course of a year. However, we encourage students who enter or transfer into Wheaton mid-year or return from being away to stop by the Discipleship Ministries office in Lower Beamer or email us to inquire about small groups they can join.
Types of Discipleship Ministries Small Groups
Discipleship Small Groups (DSG)
DSGs strive to cultivate lifelong followers of Jesus Christ through the prayer-filled reading of God’s Word in life-giving community. The main priorities of DSGs are to engage with Scripture, apply the Gospel, pray with one another, listen in love, confess sin, celebrate kingdom diversity, and meet consistently. These dorm-based small groups (in either Fischer or Smith-Traber) are mostly first years and sophomores that meet weekly.
Strongholds
God created all humans as sexual beings and every person has experiences with sexuality, but many never feel the safety to voice and address these experiences in community. Strongholds is a joyful, safe, and gospel-rooted community that pursues freedom from sexual sin and restoration from sexual brokenness by engaging sexuality with Christ at the center. Groups meet weekly to practice vulnerability, celebrate overcoming temptation, discuss gospel-centered sexuality, and lift one another up in prayer. Groups are gender-specific and welcome students from their first year through their final year.
Upper Class DSG (UCDSG)
UCDSGs seek to foster rest and delight in the Lord through Spirit-driven upperclass community where students reflect on God's present work and practice forming lifelong spiritual disciplines. UCDSG groups are typically co-ed and Sophomores through Seniors are welcome to join. Members can request being in a group with other friends who join UCDSG.
