6/18/2010
Special Announcement
Brittany Ouchida-Walsh

On the 18th Brittany Ouchida-Walsh, a long-time staff member and pastoral intern, shared with the church her plans for her the future and her sense of God's direction for her life.

Tags: Testimonies

1/2/2009
Reflections on Worship

Periodically Bridge City takes an entire worship service for a special worship focus with extended music and other creative and participatory ways to connect with God. At the most recent worship experience, Chelsea Cafferky led a group of people to talk about what worship means to them personally, and what God has been doing in their lives through our times or worship.

Chelsea Cafferky leads a great discussion with Ivan Hernandez, Don Loveridge, Julie Steuer, and Makenzie Loveridge.

Tags: Worship, Testimonies

10/17/2009
Cell Summity 2009
"The Second Reformation"
Marc Schelske

Looking at the Biblical basis for small intentional communities of Christians, and how these communities help the church live out it's Biblical mandate. This message is a strong philosophical basis for why Bridge City has committed to cell groups as a core element of ministry.

Tags: Cell Groups, Community, Cell Summit, The Church

9/26/2009
Annual Ministry Launch Event

The video below represents two sections of our annual Ministry Launch event. Clip #1 is the promo section for our core ministries, talking about what's going to happen this year. Clip #2 is our lead pastor laying out our mission for the year and how we can help make it happen.

Ministry Promo (45 min.)

Mission For The Year (19 min.)

Tags: Ministry Launch

The current series through the Gospel of Mark is not yet available in video form. We're hoping to be able to provide it, since these messages, by Brittany Ouchida-Walsh, have been great. For now, you can find them via the audio podcast. Thanks for your patience as we get our video system up and going.

Last week, on Saturday 3/28, we ended our series in Genesis with the movie clip entitled "A Thousand Questions." This video clip - found here - challenged us about our role in God's promise to bless the world. It ended with the words of Isaiah the prophet: "Here am I; send me." The response to this service and video has been very strong. Many of you asked where you could see the video again, and others asked about what steps to take next. Because of the response, we wanted to continue the conversation. So, please take a moment to watch this 6 minute video about what might come next for us. If you didn't get to see the video "A Thousand Questions," we suggest you watch it before watching this response.



So, what is the next step for you? We are going to provide a number of "next step" opportunities and experiences in the upcoming weeks. Watch the weekly email and weekend update for more information.

The first opportunity is to join us as we participate in a Night Strike. This is an activity of Bridge Town Ministries. On Friday, April 10th we'll be taking a group of 15 on this experience. We'll be serving some of Portland's homeless by delivering food and socks, washing feet and giving haircuts, as well as praying for people and listening to their stories. This is not a good event choice for small children; we are recommending 12 and up. Because of the limited space, this activity requires signing up ahead of time. If you want to join us call the office at 503-794-1696 or email wheelhouse@bridgecity.org.

In the coming weeks we'll be announcing other opportunities with different flavors and levels of engagement. Be watching for those, and if you have service ideas, ways that we as a church family can bless & serve, then let us know. It's time for us to expand beyond Circle 1 and Circle 2, and begin making a mark in Circle 3.

I look forward to seeing where this part of the journey takes us!

- Marc

We’re trying a new thing, starting this past weekend. Joe Christensen is helping us take a stab at producing a simple video podcast of our weekly message. We’ll be doing it for the entire 6-week “Encouraging Word” teaching series that starts on January 10th. It's just a proof-of-concept experiment meant to help us find out what kind of impact this has, and how much work is involved. Check back here to see how things turn out.