Now accepting donations to our food pantry
This January
The Bridge Church Reno
Please consider donating canned or dried food to our food pantry this January.  We are looking for: Canned goods like tuna fish, peaches, mixed fruit, pears, jelly, petite tomato sauce, whole tomato sauce, spaghetti sauce
Spaghetti 0"s, ravioli, refried beans, tomato soup, chicken soup, chicken noodle soup. Also dried boxed goods like instant milk, instant potatoes, rice, spaghetti noodles, Quaker oats, cake mix, and macaroni and cheese

New Teaching Series
Sunday, January 8th
The Bridge Church Reno
Next week we will kick off our new teaching series “Unstoppable,” based on the book of Acts. We will come together and learn about how God started the New Testament church and the amazing stories that surround it.
 
Annual Business Meeting
Sunday January 29th at 5pm
The Bridge Church Reno
On the last Sunday of January we will have our annual business meeting and potluck. We will look back at 2022 and take a look forward at 2023 as well as vote on the budget and board of trustees.

In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach until the day he was taken up to heaven...  

When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

... I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 

In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.  

For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.

But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day’s walk from the city. When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty) and said, “Brothers and sisters, the Scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through David concerning Judas, who served as guide for those who arrested Jesus. He was one of our number and shared in our ministry.”

“For,” said Peter, “it is written in the Book of Psalms: “ ‘May his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,’ and, “ ‘May another take his place of leadership.’ 

Therefore, it is necessary to choose one of the men who have been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus was living among us, beginning from John’s baptism to the time when Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection. So they nominated two men: Joseph called Barsabbas (also known as Justus) and Matthias. Then they prayed, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which of these two you have chosen to take over this apostolic ministry, which Judas left to go where he belongs.” Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so, he was added to the eleven apostles.