CONNECT

There are many ways to get involved at Emmaus Way. We hope you'll find ways to commune outside of Sunday that are life-giving for you. Have an idea for another group? Please share! We strive to work together to explore the passions of our community.

Community Small Groups & 

Home Groups

Emmaus Way's community life thrives in smaller, intentional gatherings generated and hosted by our co-ministers. 


We have three community small groups that you can come into and out of as you are able. They are described below. 


We also have multiple home groups which take on a variety of forms but generally meet in co-minister homes on a regular basis and focus on spiritual formation and the doing of life together. 


If you'd like to learn more about the multiple home groups that are happening, in addition to these three community small groups listed below, and how you might plug into a home group, please reach out to our Home Groups coordinator, Becca Lamb. 

  • Bible Study

    When: We meet the 2nd and 4th Sundays from 3-4 pm

    (rotating Sundays with Contemplative Prayer)

    Where:  2nd floor of Trinity Ave. Presbyterian Church

    What to Expect: We gather twice a month to discuss readings from the Bible. Readings are selected based on group consensus with an emphasis on shorter passages that facilitate participation from regular attendees as well as people who can only attend sporadically.

    Contact: Jesse Troy | jesse.troy@gmail.com

  • Contemplative Prayer

    When: We meet the 1st and 3rd Sundays from 3-4 pm

    (rotating Sundays with Bible Study)

    Where: 2nd floor of Trinity Ave. Presbyterian Church

    What to Expect: We gather twice a month for a time of meditation and prayer. We practice different types of prayer when we're together, and are open to regular attendees as well as people who can attend sporadically. 

    Contact: Bryce Rowland | bryce.rowland15@gmail.com

  • Pub Group

    When: We meet the 3rd Tuesday each month at 8pm

    Where: Different Pubs/Bars in Durham

    What To Expect: We gather around a curated reading, podcast, album, or film that has been sent out ahead of time on a common listserv to discuss. together. In addition to talking about the curated selection for the month, we also spend time catching up and sharing life together. 

    (Below, find a curated list of all we've discussed these last few years)

    Contact: Molly Brummett Wudel I mollybrummettwudel@gmail.com

pub group Recent Reads

Spring 2025: The Book of Longings (Sue Monk Kidd)

Fall 2024: Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (Annelise Orlick)

Spring 2024: A Wrinkle In Time (Madeleine L'Engle)

Winter 2024: Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer)

Fall 2023: Poverty By America (Matthew Desmond)

Winter 2023: Book of Delights (Ross Gay)

Fall 2022: They Can't Kill Us Till They Kill Us (Hanif Abdurraqib)

Winter 2022: The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (Willie James Jennings)

Fall 2021: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy 

(Jenny Odell)

Spring 2021: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Kristin Kobez Du Mez)

Winter 2021: World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and other Astonishments (Aimee Nezhukumatathil) 

Fall 2020: Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and its Urgent Lessons for our Own (Eddie Glaude, Jr.)

Winter 2020: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Jia Tolentino)