SLOW Groups are specifically designed to create and hold space to practice the spiritual disciplines of repentance. We engage repentance as the posture of softening our defensives and turning our eyes to see the heart of the other. We engage confession as the practice of talking honestly about the heavy things we carry and the impact of that heaviness on ourselves and others.

Each SLOW Group meeting orients around Church Well Co’s 4 SLOW practices: Survey, Lament, Own, and Welcome.

• Survey allows us to find ourselves in our own story and acknowledge that place.

• Lament opens space for hope in ways that unspoken pain cannot hold. We lament and grieve the weight that is carried, the wounds that have been picked up along the way, and the loss we have encountered.

• Ownership is a healing balm for our souls, given to us by God.

• Welcome invites a sacred healing in moments when our pain, our failures, our struggles are seen by both God and others, and we are not rejected or less than because of them.

Through these practices we engage the spiritual disciplines of repentance and confession.

We believe that the Bible is true: Confession to Jesus brings forgiveness and salvation. Confession to one another leads to healing and reconciliation.