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.

https://thebridgereno.com/foodpantry
 
Starting Point Class
Sunday January 29th at 11:45a @ The Bridge Reno - Learning Center
If you are new to The Bridge Church this is a great place to learn all about our mission and vision and why we believe God has placed us here in this neighborhood.  You will learn all about how we are reaching our community and world, you will also have the opportunity to become a member. Please use the connection card on the website or app to sign up and let us know you will be joining us.
 
Small Groups
Now through this spring @ The Bridge Church Reno
The new year is a great time to join a small group.  We have several different groups meeting throughout the week.  There is a group lead by Pastor Phil that meets here at the church in the prayer room on Tuesday night’s at 6pm.  Each week they dive deeper into the sermon and try to figure out ways to live it out. They are looking to expand the group so please contact him for more info.

Proposed by-law changes and budget Q and A Meetings
Two different times (see below) @ The Bridge Church Reno
We will be voting on several different items as well as some changes to our by-laws at this year’s annual meeting.  If you are a voting member please plan on attending one of the two informational meetings.  There will be a Q and A meeting on Thursday January 19th at 6pm in the learning center.  There will also be a Q and A meeting on Sunday January 22nd after second service.

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 as well as several other items of importance.

When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

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.”

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?” Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.”

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit,

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.”

Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”

For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 14:2

“Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations…”  

Matthew 28:19