Life Groups

Life Groups are gatherings made up of around 10–16 people who meet weekly to foster friendship through the regular rhythms of sharing, studying, serving, and supporting.

Sign up during our fall, winter, and spring sessions using our Groups Catalog.

Life Group leader biographies and online sorting filters are designed to help you find the best group for you. Once you find a group, request to join and the leader will be notified of your interest and will reach out directly.

Groups meet on various nights of the week in homes throughout the greater Des Moines area. To get a better feel of where groups meet, use our neighborhood sorting filter or mapping feature when searching our Groups Catalog.

When you join, you are committing to your group through the next session. Active attendance and participation are key to a strong Life Group. If you sign up for a group and decide it is not a good fit for you, let us know in the first two weeks and we will happily help you find another.

Most groups are sermon-based and discuss the previous weekend’s message. There may also be times when Valley encourages all groups to go through a different study material or your group desires to try something different for a season before returning to sermon-based discussions. 

All of our leaders must have experience being a member of a group for at least a session and go through Leader Essentials Training before being considered as a potential leader.