Student All-Night New Years Party

New Year's Party

Students (Grade 6th-12th) are welcome.  We will be hanging at the Kersker's.  Students are asked to bring munchies and 2-liters to share.  Friends are welcome.

Video Games, Board games, and movies are welcome but subject to Traci.

Any questions message Traci@ImagineLifeDifferently.com

Celebrating Our Lord and King!

Celebrating Christmas in Many Ways!

Merry Christmas!  Praying that Christ is at the center of you holiday celebrations!  Thanks for celebrating with us in these ways:

New Creation Men's Gift Bags

Thanks for all the contributions of items to our homeless men.  Twenty-five bags have been package with hats, gloves, personal care items, munchies, and more.  These were dropped off at New Creation early this week.  Continue to pray that the men will know God's love through these packages as well as the care they receive from the body of Christ in the many churches that make up the shelter.

Family Christmas Program 2014

We do a Family Christmas program because it is an opportunity to use the talents that God has given to give back and to share His love with friends and family.  Over 50 people participated in using their gifts this season - some on stage and others behind the scenes.  Little children all the way through adults use this opportunity not only to put a smile on God's face and as a result offers something for all ages.

If you missed the opportunity to attend, you can view it online here.

Christmas Eve Service

Together we welcomed in Christmas Day as we remember God coming to earth in human form in song and Word.  As many spend time with family, we joined together as God's family to remember the birth of our Lord and King.

Pete and the worship team led us back over 2000 years to a different time and place; A time under the rule of a powerful, self-proclaimed son of god (Augustus Cesar son of Julius Cesar) where in contrast the real Son of God is born in a stable and laid in a manger, the Creator of all that was and is.  Together we worshiped our Creator God come to earth in human form.

Love and joy was shared as people lingered after the service enjoying having Christ in common.

Looking for a Ministry Opportunity in 2015? Check Out Toolbox Ministries!

Toolbox Ministries
Saturday, January 3rd 9am

We have good boxes, bad boxes, shoe boxes, and turkey boxes.  Now we have Toolboxes as well!  Toolbox Ministries is a new building remodeling and maintenance team.  With a recommitment to being a good steward of the facilities that God has blessed us with, we will care for them and create welcoming environments for our guests.

Free Pizza with $5 Donation to St. Jude's This Saturday Only!

LB Faith Based Cancer Support Group invites you to support St. Jude and children with cancer.

In an effort to continue to raise money for children fighting cancer, Dominoes is offering a free pizza with a $5 donation to St. Jude Research Hospital on December 20th.  Simply stop by any of their stores throughout the day and make your donation to receive your pizza!.

Participating Dominoes Stores:  Crown Point, Hammond, Merrillville, Michigan City, Valparaiso

Why support St. Jude?

Christmas Happenings at Life Bridge!

What is happening at Life Bridge this Christmas Season?

Join us for one or all of these events.  Family and friends are always welcome.  It's a wonderful time
of year to invite those you love!

• Saturday 12/20 - Family Christmas 2014 6pm - TOMORROW!
• Wednesday 12/24 - Christmas Eve Service 11pm 

Family Christmas Program This Saturday!

Artwork by Caden Muir age 10

Family Christmas Program
Saturday December 20th 6pm

Performers, stage, and tech people are needed at 5:30

Dress Rehearsal Friday, December 19th (TODAY!)

• Preschool 5:30pm (30 Minutes)
• Elementary 6:00pm (1 hour)
• Adults  - as scheduled with Frank
• Tech People are appreciated throughout these practices.

Mark your calendars!  Invite family & friends!  

Join us for an evening of laughter, music, and fun!  This is a variety-style program that offers something for all ages.  

New! Toolbox Ministries!

Toolbox Ministries
Saturday, January 3rd 9am

We have good boxes, bad boxes, shoe boxes, and turkey boxes.  Now we have Toolboxes as well!  Toolbox Ministries is a new building remodeling and maintenance team.  With a recommitment to being a good steward of the facilities that God has blessed us with, we will care for them and create welcoming environments for our guests.

Tim Qualkenbusch

As school and work vie for our time, God is at work meeting the need for leadership in this area.  Meet Tim Qualkenbusch. Tim is experienced at maintenance and working with people.  More than anything, though, Tim has a heart for God and a desire to use his gifts and experience to make a difference for each person that walks through Life Bridge's doors.  His desire is to remove distractions, so that people can see God and connect to His heart.  We join him in that desire.

You are invited to be a part of Toolbox Ministries!  Join us on Saturday, January 3rd 9am at Life Bridge to hear how you can be a part of this ministry in 2015!  There is something for everyone!

Christmas Blessing Bags for the Homeless

New Creation Christmas Blessing Bags

Remember to bring in your items for the care packages for our homeless men this Sunday!  If you want to participate and not sure how protein bars and individually wrapped snack foods are great.  Another idea could be writing notes/cards to be included.  All items donated will go to the men.

The goal is to have all items returned by December 21st.  Then we will package them up, wrap them up, and take to New Creation by Christmas! 

God is showing His love through these packages.  Thanks for participating.

What a Luncheon!

Celebrating our Christmas Luncheon

What better way to enjoy the season than to share a meal together!  And the meal was absolutely awesome!

First of all, thanks to all who contributed to the meal.  The variety of  made seconds and thirds a must because it all simply would fit on your plate!

How about those ladies who are doing an awesome job of having everything prepared as soon as service ends?  I'm sure to mess things up if I try to name them, but it is a work of art how they pull it all together.

Last, but not least, is all who participated. The cafe and tables throughout the worship area were occupied by family and friends as we came together in celebration.  Introductions were made of guests, support and encouragement offered to college students on upcoming finals and for others a congratulations of finals completed.

All of this took place as we simultaneously prepared for our last children's Christmas practice.

God is at work in this place... building community, building relationships with others and with Him, and using all of us to make eternal impacts on family and friends throughout NWI.  Enjoy celebrating Christ, our Savior this season!

Christmas Schedule

What is happening at Life Bridge this Christmas Season?

Join us for one or all of these events.  Family and friends are always welcome.  It's a wonderful time

of year to invite those you love!

• Sunday 12/14 - Christmas Luncheon following 2nd Service -THIS SUNDAY!
• Saturday 12/20 - Family Christmas 2014 6pm
• Wednesday 12/24 - Christmas Eve Service 11pm 

Christmas Luncheon This Sunday!

Christmas Luncheon
Sunday, December 14th following 2nd Service

What better way to enjoy the season than to share a meal together!  As you run off to do shopping or other activities, take time to join us for lunch immediately following second service this Sunday as we enjoy one another's company and Life Bridge friends - invited friends, family, students and New Creation men.

Someone shared this week that she did what Pete suggested and invited someone she has been getting to know the last few weeks.  She almost didn't know what to say when her invitation was accepted for both church and lunch!  Who can you invite?

Life Bridge is providing ham for the occasion.  If you would like to participate in the meal, then sign up for the Christmas Luncheon with this link: (http://vols.pt/V1afRW ) on VolunteerSpot today or simply bring something along!

Christmas Blessing Bags are Off to a Great Start!

New Creation Christmas Blessing Bags

We want to show the men that we serve 6 months out of the year that they are still in our hearts... and in God's.  As I looked at the sign up sheet Monday night, I was in total awe of your generous response!

We have asked to collect 25 of each of the following items.  Only a few things remain after only one week!

Family Christmas 2014 is Coming!!

Family Christmas Program
Saturday December 20th 6pm

Performers, stage, and tech people are needed at 5:30

Dress Rehearsal Friday, December 19th

• Preschool 5:30pm (30 Minutes)
• Elementary 6:00pm (1 hour)
• Adults  - as scheduled with Frank
• Tech People are appreciated throughout these practices.

Mark your calendars!  Invite family & friends!  

Join us for an evening of laughter, music, and fun!  This is a variety-style program that offers something for all ages.  

Children and Student practices continue this week - Sunday and Tuesday!  

Like Pizza? Support St. Jude on December 20th!

LB Faith Based Cancer Support Group invites you to support St. Jude and children with cancer.

In an effort to continue to raise money for children fighting cancer, Dominoes is offering a free pizza with a $5 donation to St. Jude Research Hospital on December 20th.  Simply stop by any of their stores throughout the day and make your donation to receive your pizza!.

Participating Dominoes Stores:  Crown Point, Hammond, Merrillville, Michigan City, Valparaiso

Why support St. Jude?

Celebrating Our Savior in Decoration!

Decorating draws us closer to Christ and one another.

Did you notice the lights and greens when you came in on Sunday?  A special thanks goes out to all who helped make this possible.  It was a great time to simply get together, listen to Christmas music, and make the building look awesome!

Of course, our decorations don't begin to compare to the star lit sky over Bethlehem the night Christ was born.  He was welcomed by the sounds of the animals he created so long ago; worshiped by shepherds and wisemen, and heralded by angels...

May your decorations and traditions, draw you closer to Christ this Christmas!

Jordan Morris Prepares to Serve in Honduras

Meet Jordan Morris, son of Life Bridgians, Geno and Rhoda Morris.  

Jordan is currently in Dental School in Kentucky and preparing to go on a 2 week mission trip to Honduras in early March with Global Health Outreach.

The destination is a border town near El Salvador and just NW of Choluteca.  It is a very rural and arid part of southwestern Honduras.

Christmas 2014: What's Up?

What is happening at Life Bridge this Christmas Season?

Join us for one or all of these events.  Family and friends are always welcome.  It's a wonderful time of year to invite those you love!

Saturday 12/6 - Hanging of the Greens 6pm
Sunday 12/14 - Christmas Luncheon following 2nd Service
Saturday 12/20 - Family Christmas 2014 6pm
Wednesday 12/24 - Christmas Eve Service 11pm 

New Creation Christmas Gifts - Blessing Bags

New Creation Christmas Blessing Bags

We want to show the men that we serve 6 months out of the year that they are still in our hearts... and in God's.

To do this, we will be collecting 25 of each of these items:

• Knit hats
• Men's gloves
• Pair of warm socks
• Small soaps
• Wash cloth
• Disposable razor
• Travel size deodorant
• Tooth brush & tooth paste
• Pack of gum
• Assorted candy or cookies

The goal is to package them up, wrap them up, and take to New Creation by Christmas! 

Check out the Ministry Counter to participate so we don't have 72 razors and 1 hat! :)

Let's make it a Merry Christmas for our men at New Creation!

Celebrations!

 Student Sunday!

A special thanks to all the parents and students who gave of their time and talents over Thanksgiving week.

Students could be found on stage, behind the coffee bar, collecting offering and serving communion.  If you looked in some less obvious places you'd also find students at sound boards and the camera!  

Helping students discover their gifts and experience being a part of making a service come together is a part of teaching them to walk with God.  We first model it as adults and then empower our kids as they get older.

In spite of illnesses and a holiday weekend, we came together and honored our Lord as we all worshiped together!

A special thanks to Frank Guzzo, Tom and Rebecca Burn, for empowering students. Another thanks to Scott Feeler for filling in on the visual computer last minute.  You were a blessing to us all!

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Benefit: Domino's Kid's Day!

Be a Chef For One Day!

Saturday, December 6th 10:30am

Your kids can make a FREE small 1-topping pizza!

In an effort to continue to raise money for the St Jude Children's Research Hospital, we will be offering a pizza making class for the kids.  For $5 donation to St. Jude, you child will get to take a tour of our store and make their very own 10" pizza!  The class will begin at 10:30am on Saturday, December 6th and RSVP is appreciated by Thursday, December 4th.  

How to Participate:

• Call your local store from the list below,
• Speak with a manager who will reserve your place(s)
• Show up and make an awesome pizza!

Any additional donations made to St. Jude will be appreciated too!  Thank you.

Merrillville

5374 Broadway

219-884-0114

Michigan City

2316 Franklin Street

219-879-8330

Valparaiso

1707 Laporte Ave.

219-465-5500

Crown Point

805 N. Main Street

219-662-0313

Hammond

7444 Kennedy Ave.

219-844-2555

It's Not Too Late to Participate: Family Christmas 2014

Family Christmas Program
Saturday December 20th 6pm

Mark your calendars!  Invite family & friends!  

Join us for an evening of laughter, music, and fun!  This is a variety-style program that offers something for all ages.  

Children and Student practices have begun!  It's not too late to participate!

Christmas Luncheon Sunday 12/14!

Christmas Luncheon
Sunday, December 14th following 2nd Service

What better way to enjoy the season than to share a meal together!  As you run off to do shopping or other activities, take time to join us for lunch immediately following second service as we enjoy one another's company and Life Bridge friends - students and New Creation men. Feel free to invite family and friends!

Life Bridge is providing ham for the occasion.  If you would like to participate in the meal, then sign up for the Christmas Luncheon with this link: (http://vols.pt/V1afRW ) on VolunteerSpot today or stop by the Ministry Counter this Sunday!

Hanging of the Greens This Saturday Evening!

Hanging of the Greens Next Saturday!

Saturday December 6th 6pm

This Saturday, we will be gathering at Life Bridge to decorate for the season!  If you enjoy decorating or are good with taking direction, come on down as we create a welcoming environment this season!