Here Come the College Students!

It Starts with College Lunch This Sunday 

We have invited students to join us for lunch this Sunday after 2nd service.  It is meant to be a time to serve them, get to know them, and to build relationships.  This week's main dish is hot dogs and burgers.

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The Baptistery is Here!

It's here!  It's here!

Perhaps you saw the pictures on Facebook months ago - people moving a baptistery into the Life Bridge Building.  Well, that baptistery wasn't the correct one.  The steps were on the opposite side from those called for in the building plans.

What is Happening for Your Kids this Weekend

Pizza Party this Sunday at 11am Service for K-5th Grade!

All summer your children have been learning about love!  As they have answered questions, participated in activities, and modeled good behavior, they have earned "dots" toward a pizza party!  So this week it is here!  Children will be going on a "Love Journey" as they review all the things they have learned about love and then we will top it off with pizza!

Students Serve Weekend!

Intentional Valparaiso Joined Ministry Monday!

Nearly every Monday night at Life Bridge, you can find a group of people who desire to serve God in ministry.   We take time to hone our skills and think about how we can serve the body here better, as well as our community.  We coordinate for upcoming events, and we pray together asking God to guide us and go before us.

Occasionally, we get to hear from other Christian organizations in our community and discuss how we can work together to have a Kingdom impact.

Operation Christmas Child Rummage "No Sale" Success!

This past weekend, we hosted our first ever Rummage Sale to benefit Operation Christmas Child.

The OCC team has set a goal of preparing 150 boxes, and covering the shipping fees involved in getting these to the kids.  The goals of this event were to raise awareness of OCC and money to help cover the shipping.  Additionally, by not putting prices on anything, the OCC team trusted God to both provide for the needs of people in our community and meet the financial needs of sending shoe boxes to children around the world.

Encounter Student Camp Out 2014 in Review

Showing off her temporary "home."

Imagine cardboard boxes dotting a one acre yard, setup as shelters for our teenagers.  It began as students arrived Friday evening and were informed that they were homeless for the weekend.  They had to find their shelter along the road.  A quarter mile down the road they found large appliance boxes which they then brought back and figured out how to make their structure livable for the night.

Children's Ministry Pizza Party Aug 31st!

LBKids Summer Series on Love

Double Dot Sunday -Aug. 24th

Children's Ministry has been learning about love all summer!  We have been following a group of High School Movie Makers as they learn what it means to love in different circumstances.  Each week as we go through our lesson kids are encouraged to participate in activities and answering questions.  As they do these things, model good behavior or a characteristic of love that we are learning about, they are awarded dots (warm fuzzies or pom poms).  These are collected and counted at the end of each week and added to our running total.  At the beginning of the summer the kids were told if they earned 750 dots by the end of the series, we would have a pizza party!  Currently we have 563, and this Sunday, our last in the series, is Double Dot Sunday!  I look forward to having the kids come out, and ready to earn dots as we learn about how "Love changes everything!"