The Hearthside Gatherings
Original stories. Scripture. Meaningful conversation. A place at the table.
The Hearthside Gatherings are ready-to-use printable Bible study experiences for women, created from the stories of The Hearthside Papers and designed to help us notice where the truth of Scripture meets the lives we are actually living.
Each Gathering begins with something ordinary—a worn Bible, an old gate, a rocking chair, a stone wall, a piece of sea glass—and uses it as an invitation to look more closely at something deeper.
Faithfulness when the row seems endless.
Trust when the pieces do not fit.
Grace when healing comes slowly.
Peace when boundaries remain.
Stillness in a life that does not stop moving.
Hope when something has been lost.
The quiet formation taking place through years of returning to God and His Word.
These are not traditional Bible-study workbooks built around filling in blanks or finding a single correct response. They are thoughtfully prepared gatherings centered on Scripture, story, honest reflection, and meaningful conversation.
Each one includes an original essay, primary and secondary Scripture readings, Around the Table discussion questions, personal reflection pages, a complete Host Guide, and coordinating materials to help make gathering simple—from invitations and table cards to Scripture cards and other small touches for the table.
You do not need to be a Bible teacher.
You do not need to write a lesson.
And you do not need to have a perfectly prepared home or a large group.
Gather a few women around your kitchen table. Use one with a church group, women's ministry, Sunday school class, or book-club-style gathering. Or simply print a packet and work through it quietly on your own.
The Hearthside Gatherings were created to make meaningful time in Scripture feel both substantial and approachable—deep enough to invite honest thought, but welcoming enough to begin with an ordinary story and a place at the table.
Some Gatherings explore questions of memory and inheritance. Others consider uncertainty, loss, changing seasons, boundaries, patience, spiritual formation, or the unexpected ways grace meets us in the middle of an unfinished life.
Choose the story that meets you—or your table—where you are.
Bring the packets.
Set the table.
Maybe make something good to eat.
And gather around the ordinary things that can help us notice the eternal ones.