Bible Study For Busy Moms Who Can’t Meet in Person
I thought it would be easier to start a Bible study.
Friends of mine seemed to do it effortlessly, posting flyers in their neighborhoods or inviting women at parties, and suddenly their living rooms were full of open Bibles and warm conversation. The formula looked simple enough: choose a time, invite people, study God’s Word together.
Surely, I could do the same.
At the time, my kids had just started attending a local public school, and I was the new mom in the pickup line. Every afternoon, I stood there clutching a small stack of invitations, waiting for the right moment. When the line slowed and a few moms lingered near the curb, I’d step forward with one of the invitations in my hand.
“Hey, I’ve really enjoyed chatting with you in the pickup line lately,” I’d say. “I’m starting a small Bible study for moms and wanted to see if you might be interested.”
I’d explain that we were planning to go through the 8-week NBS2GO Mommy study. As moms, we spend so much of our energy caring for our little ones, but our spiritual well-being matters too.
Some moms nodded politely. Others tucked the invitation into their bags. A few stayed to chat about how busy life felt.
The invitations were sent, but finding a time to meet felt like solving a puzzle. Some moms worked full-time. Others were single parents, juggling evenings filled with homework, dinners, and bedtime routines.
We finally settled on a Friday evening.
The first week, two women came. The following week, just one.
So, it became the two of us, Bibles open on the table, light refreshments nearby. It wasn’t the bustling group I had imagined, but it was good. Really good.
When we finished that study, summer was approaching, and calendars were already filling with vacations, camps, and family visits. Meeting in person again felt nearly impossible.
So, I suggested something simple.
“What if we check in by group text each week instead?”
We decided to try another study—LIGHT—and invited a few more moms to join us.
Every week, the messages would begin to pop up.
A photo of a mom with her kids at the park.
A prayer request before a doctor’s appointment.
Pictures of journal entries with reflections like, “This passage reinforced my faith…”
Sometimes it was just one sentence about what someone learned. But those messages became little reminders throughout the week that we weren’t studying alone.
Before long, six more moms joined to do our Advent Study.
It’s been nearly a year now of studying this way.
Our phones light up with encouragement, prayers, and reflections on Scripture. In a small but meaningful way, we’re living out Hebrews 10:24–25, encouraging one another and refusing to give up meeting together, even if “meeting” looks like a group text.
And like Paul writes in Romans 1:8–15, while we long to see one another in person, this text group has become something that mutually encourages our faith.
What started as a handful of invitations in a school pickup line has become a steady rhythm of encouragement for busy moms.
Turns out, Bible study doesn’t have to happen around the same table.
Sometimes it happens right in the middle of a text thread.
