Good morning Bridge Church,

As you know, many of you who attend Bridge Church have decided to become members of this great work that God is doing in Perry.  Through this process it has been awesome to hear your stories as we have interviewed many of you for membership and how God has worked in your life. I was looking through my journal from last year and came up on the entry for November 19, 2006 which was our first preview service at Manchester.  I wanted to share that entry with you.

November 19, 2006

Woke up with anticipation. Our first preview service is today. We have been able to get all of the equipment we ned to do the preview service. We are in need of more workers for our services. Lord, send some people who can help us out. I pray that people will be at our preview service who will sign up to help. Lord, I don’t know who will be at our preview, but you do. I don’t know how many will be there, but you do. I don’t know what to say, but you do. May I be wise. May I be open to the leading of your Spirit. I know that you have a plan and I am thankful to be a part of your plan and vision.
All of this is in God’s hands. I am relying on him. This is his church and we are his workmanship, which he created to do good works.

(later in the day I wrote)
Things went well for our preview service. Some technical glitches with sound, but otherwise set up and tear down went beautiful. We had 33 people for our service. I thank you Lord for those who came to be part of our service and I pray they will share with people what you are doing. This area is hard. Building a church will take longer than I had anticipated, but God will lead us and we trust in his power not ours .

By the way, there were 157 at our service yesterday (11/18/2007).

Jeff