The Bridge Family Fun Day

The Bridge Family Fun Day was a huge success!!

Check out more about the event here.

The Well

Hi Everyone!

Today we will be walking the neighborhoods with bottles of cold water and pop to once again invite people to the preview service.

Sept. 1st we will be walking the neighborhoods again to give out water and pop and continue to make contact with people in the community. Sept. 15th we will be hitting the local laundromats to give quarters out and talk with people.

Doug and I will also be coaching another soccer team this fall. We have a soccer meeting on Tuesday. Pray for the parents/children and the people of the association that we would be able to be Christ to.

Thanks for your support. This is vital to the ministry that God has for us. We are in this together. We so much appreciate you all!

Love,

Karen and Doug

New District Website

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July 18th Preview service @ The Well

Hi Everyone!

I hope you are able to stay cool. It sure is hot out there. :-) We are sponsoring a concert with the band "A Day Awaits" on Friday July 16th at 6:00 p.m. Pray that God will bring people out to hear the message that the band will be sharing.

Our first preview service is July 18th at 11:00 a.m. We are working hard to get everything together so that the service will be a good representation of The Well but most importantly that we will represent our Lord and Savior well.

Pray that God would raise up people to help us with junior church and nursery. We don't want our team to get burned out. We are also trying to plan our next preview service. With our team involved in mission trips to Haiti, York Mission and The Bridge we are scrambling for a date in August. If any of you would be willing to help us we would greatly appreciate it. We need help in a lot of areas - even if you would volunteer for 1 Sunday it would help. We are looking at August 22nd or the 29th for our next preview service. We are hoping to begin weekly services the end of Sept. Pray that God would raise up workers in the community to help us.

Thanks for your continued prayer. We can't thank you enough for your faithfulness.

Love, Karen and Doug

Live The Adventure

Church planting really is an incredible adventure, and there are a variety of ways you can join in this hard but exciting work:

...by praying

• for the multiplication of believers, leaders & churches;

• for current plants, planters, and mother churches;

• for God to raise up new planters and mother churches...

...by affirming publicly the need, value, and mission of church planting...

...by raising corporate awareness by promoting current church plants and planters...

...by providing various resources to current and future church plants...

...by giving/using permission to take part as a church planter, launch team member or other participant.

How will you take part in the adventure?

Gomez Journey/PrayerNote

The cat is out of the bag.

While I’m not sure just where that expression came from (or why we take it to mean a secret is not-so-secret anymore), we have some news to share.

At our District Conference last monday, our District Superintendent shared The Bridge’s plan to daughter a new church in June of next year. Sarah and I will be the lead planters in what we’re affectionately, for now, calling ‘Bridge 2.0’ and are excited about that next move. This is definitely a big step, but it’s part of an even bigger dream of developing an urban church planting and training center from which church planting teams are prepared and sent throughout the region, nation, and globe. It’s an impossible vision that will take the activity of God’s own Spirit to accomplish--and that excites us to no end!

For now, we ask you to pray for us as we identify the people and place where the next church will be. We have some ideas, but we need to be doubly sure we are focused on where God is already moving rather than just choosing something based on selfish desire.

In the meantime, we’re fully engaged with The Bridge and are ramping up to a busy summer ministry season. Please keep the following dates/events in mind as you pray for us and the ministry of The Bridge:

• Sunday, June 27: Sharing at First Wesleyan in Shippensburg, PA
• July 7-July 11: Youth volleyball clinic with the women’s volleyball team from Oklahoma Wesleyan University

Our largest event of the summer will be a free Family Fun Day at a local park on Saturday, August 28th; already churches and groups are signing up to take part in helping us offer a meaningful, engaging and totally free event that allows us to serve our community and get to know our neighbors as well as (hopefully) building momentum for our first preview service in September.

Thank you for taking this journey with us and praying for us.

We’re honored to have you in our corner.

Jeremiah, Sarah, and Jubilee

From the Well

Greetings Everyone!

We had a great block party! Thank you for your prayer coverage. God provided a wonderful sunny day! We didn't have a huge crowd - about 45 people attended. However, we made some good contacts and had about 8 people that expressed real interest in coming to The Well.

We are hosting a picnic on July 27th and asking some of the people we've become friends with to come. Pray that we as a launch team will be able to connect with them even more.

"A Day Awaits" is coming to play at Cold Stream Dam on July 16th at 6:00 p.m. for us. We are hoping to reach the teens and young adults. Pray for good weather and that people will come to hear the band. They are all college students and do a great job. They played for the district lock-in several months ago and the teens from the district really enjoyed them.

We will be having a preview service on July 18th at 11:00 a.m. at 1 North Front St. Cafe Books Events. The coffee shop owner once again was an answer to our prayers. We are able to rent an office space 24/7 with use of a larger room once a week for our Sunday morning service for $550.00 a month. We were excited about this as we won't have to load and unload sound equipment and nursery/junior church supplies every Sunday. We will store them in the office space during the week. Plus we will be able to have small groups in the office space.

We also have some people that may be interested in being in a worship band for us. Pray that God would continue to bring that all together. We are so thankful for our launch team. They have been doing a great job. Pray a hedge of protection around them. As we near launch, Satan is throwing more problems our way. We know that God has the victory we just need to keep our focus on Him and the mission we are on with Him.

Pray for Doug and I as it sometimes feels like you're in the trenches all alone. We know we're not but the work load is enormous and the to do list is big. You find yourself thinking and living the church plant 24 hours a day. We realize that we need to pull back and remember who we are as a couple and as individuals. We've gotten so busy being church planters we've forgotten to be husband and wife. We just won tickets to Creation Festival for next week so that will be a nice getaway for us. We are planning short day trips just to catch our breath too.

We praise Hyde Wesleyan for having a "baby" shower for us. We were showered with many wonderful gifts which will be a great help. Two of the churches in our district are preparing backpacks for us to give away in the fall. We are so thankful for them. We are thankful to all of you who are supporting us in some way -financially, prayerfully or actually physically helping us. Keep praying ! God is moving and working!! Lives are being touched and it's because of your obedience to the part God would have you to play in The Well and it's ministry.

If there is any thing we can pray for you about please let us know. We love and appreciate you all!

Karen and Doug