8.06 PRAYER LIST

1. Pray that our friends, neighbors and new contacts who do not have a church home find hope at BOH.

2. Pray that God provides additional people to serve and help our core carry the load.

3. Pray that God continues to bless our youth ministry as they move toward their own launch on Nov. 1.

4. Pray for additional funds to be raised.  We hope to increase our support of Armond and keep him with us for at least another year.

5. Pray that God works in the hearts and lives of those who visit our Premiere on Oct. 1.  Pray that they would accept Christ as their Lord and Savior, connect with a church, grow in their faith, serve others, share their faith, and surrender completely to Jesus.

6. Pray for our launch team to be filled with strength, peace, and courage.

AN INVITATION TO HELP US

Here are 4 ways you can help us make a difference:

Pray 4 us

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“Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
1 Thess. 5:18

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September Update

GO TIME!
September means that it is time to gear up and get ready to go.  We have been meeting at the theater these last two weeks and will continue to do so up until launch date:  October first.  This enables us to see the areas in which we are doing well, and areas that need more attention.  Sort of like dress rehearsals or trial runs.  With each week, things get a little easier and run a little smoother.  The glitches are getting worked out and we are making changes in the areas that needed some adjustments or just more attention.  We are all seeing how our individual parts make the whole run as a unit.  

As always, your prayers are important to us.   Here are some specifics that we ask you to pray for:  

While it has been exciting to see that we can do this with our core group and get the work done, there are areas that could really use more hands and willing hearts.

• SOUND:  We need someone who is well versed in audio to come and run our sound system each week.  We had Kevin Osborn for this job, but he was needed at his home church to begin a second service on Sunday mornings. He is helping set up, but then has to leave.  Please pray that the right person will come along and join our team to fill this vital position.  We also need audio tech. people to assist them.  [At the time she wrote this, Rachel had not heard that Kevin O. invited a friend (audio tech) to come and help us this week.  He was a huge help and we hope he will continue to help at least through our initial start-up.]

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• LIGHTING & VIDEO: We need 2 people to work with these.

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• MUSICIANS:  While our band has come a long way, we could use a couple strong vocalists and another guitarist.

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  KID'S TECH:  Someone to run the sound, lights, and video.

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• CHILDREN'S CHURCH:  Stephanie & Mark are doing a great job with our pre-K--1st graders.  What we would love to see happen is for someone (or several people) to come along side them and do children's church for our 2nd-5th graders also.  As of now, there is no children's church for those ages. 

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• NURSERY: We would like to see at least 2 volunteer helpers in the nursery with Colleen each week.

So basically, (and this is to be expected when you first start out) we need more people who are willing to give of their time and talents.  As we grow as a church, these things will fall into place.  

There has been some unpleasant excitement at our building.  Here is a note from Pastor Kevin and Armond:

Well, we, as a church, have experienced our first real pains of being in an urban setting. There was a break-in here at 2207 Falls Ave. and some of our equipment was stolen this week. Kevin & Armond had taken some of the cases off of the trailer on Monday to get equipment to lead worship the next day at the fall Classis meeting.  We locked everything up & left with our equipment.  On Wednesday, Kevin received a call from the bldg. Mgr that there had been a break in. On Thursday Armond noticed that the back door was closed but not locked and that the basement door was punched through. The doors of our cases were opened.  After doing a set up of our equipment we realized that there were several things missing.  One of which was a keyboard from Orchard Hill Church ($700). Armond lost multiple cables and 4 guitar stands worth about $200.00.  Joey lost an effects pedal worth about $150.00.  B.O.H. lost 6 microphones, microphone cables, instrument cables and a video splitter together worth about $300.

So, there you have it.  I know I mentioned some specifics, but we always seek your prayers for our overall mission:  that we will continue to do God's work under God's will and direction.  Our youth program can always use prayer and more helpers too.  

Thank you for being such a vital part of Bridge of Hope.  We look to  our prayer warriors to keep us before the throne of God.

ONE MORE NOTE FROM PK:  Stephanie, Ian, Zack, Elyssa, and I have been greatly blessed over the last month as we move into our first home (that we have owned).  It has been a great adventure in which we've seen God provide abundantly. Briefly... we searched in our price range and were disappointed by the lack of yard or lack of house at every turn.  We figured we would have to settle for less and make it work.  Our realtor found an under-priced, three bedroom, big yard, usable basement house with an attached garage.  I made an offer without Stephanie seeing the house (she did approve the offer based on my description over the phone!).  Anyway, we have a great house at a great price.  God is very good!