Brittany Harlow

When you join a community group, you join a family. The people in your group become people who you share your heart with and share your life with. They pray for you and love you and truly care about you. I would not be where I am today without these prayers.

When you’re in a community group you get to see all of the amazing things God is doing in your life and in the lives of others in your group. I have watched my family grow and be changed through these prayers. When I started my first small group (community group) it was just myself and my 3 month old. My husband did not come. Fast forward 10 years and now my husband and I have opened our home to be the host for our community group together. My husband not only became part of the group but he also got saved and was baptized 2 years ago. I have also seen broken marriages put back together and broken hearts be healed and find new love. Joyce and John literally got remarried after being divorce. We were praying for Joyce and we were pray for John but we had no idea that God would restore their marriage and put their family back together.

Being a part of a Community group means having a group you meet with regularly that you can tell about your life. Community group was the first time I really shared a lot of my testimony with a group of people. It allowed me to be vulnerable and share things I may not be proud of but not feel judged because God can use my story to help others. By sharing my story it has made me more comfortable with my story. It has shown me that I need to share so others can see God’s love and Grace.

Community group is so important because sometimes life is normal hard and sometimes life is really hard. We need others to be there during both. I lost my sister when she was 29 and I was 31. These things are not supposed to happen but they do. Not everyday is that hard but a lot of days are hard. Whether it’s a normal hard day or a really hard day, we all need people who will stop everything and pray for us or feed us or pick up a kid. Whatever it is I have no doubt that anyone in my group would be there when I ask or even if I don’t ask.