Student Ministries Team is looking for help
Right now the student ministries team is looking for a female youth group leader.  This person would attend Wednesday evening youth group, play games, be part of a small group and build relationships with the students.  Join the team and be a part of raising up young people to have a strong relationship with Christ.
 
Easter Basket Giveaway
The Bridge Church Reno
This Easter season we have partnered with Thomas Hill and Cookies for Kindness and hope to give away one thousand free Easter baskets to children in need in our community.  We are still looking for donations of small toys and candy to fill the baskets.  We also will need help assembling the baskets which should start on March 25th.  If you would like to help please email cookies4kindness@gmail.com
 
Good Friday/Easter Sunday
Friday, March 29th & Sunday, March 31st
The Bridge Church Reno
We will have a Good Friday service at 6pm and one Easter service at 10am. Please pray for opportunities to invite friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers.  Our world is in desperate need of hope and Easter Sunday will be a great time to remember where our only real home comes from.
 
Baptism Sunday
Sunday, April 3rd
The Bridge Church Reno
Come celebrate baptisms on Sunday April 3rd with us.  If you are ready to take the next step in your walk with Jesus and would like to be baptized please go https://thebridgereno.com/connect and let us know.
 
Prayer Meeting
Thursday, April 11th @ 5:00p
The Bridge Church Reno
The needs of our church, our families, our community, and our world are many right now.  Let us turn to our merciful God and cry out to Him for help.  Please come and spend some time in prayer with us on Thursday April 11th at 5:00pm
 
Kids Kingdom News
What a wonderful week we are having.  I am enjoying the warm weather and getting ready for Easter. This Sunday is Palm Sunday.  There will be something special to commemorate  this day. Good Friday we will have Kids Kingdom open, so come on down and join us. Easter Sunday we will not be
having Kids Kingdom.  We will all enjoy the service with our families. There are a lot of exciting things going on in the Kingdom.  We don't want you to miss any of it, so make sure you are here to enjoy it with us. Can't wait to see everyone on Sunday.  -Miss Terry

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last. 
It’s very important to take notice of how these words were said.  There were not said in a whisper or a mumble

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last. 
These words show dependency

• Jesus last words show dependency.  Jesus being part of the trinity is connected to God the Father.  He does not operate on His own.  Jesus is not independent of the Father, He is interdependent with Him.
• This is a prayer and when we pray we show our dependance on God

These words show victory

• This is a victory shout.  Jesus has won.  It doesn’t look that way to his enemies does it?  They were thinking His life is over, His ministry is over, His message is over.” 
• The real truth is Jesus's life was not over, he rose again. Jesus's ministry is not over, the church continues. Jesus's message is not over. 2000 years later we're still talking about it.
• These words of victory signify that he had completed his mission. He had lived a sinless life and had received the full wrath of God for mankind's sin and become the perfect sacrifice that would allow people to be reconciled to God once and for all. “Father into your hands I commit my spirit.”

These words show Trust

• Just a short while before this Jesus cried out a different prayer. My god my god why have you forsaken me and now Jesus’s prayer is much different. He says: father, into your hands I commit my spirit. Jesus had seen the father work through his life over and over again. And he knew that he could trust him.

You can trust Him

• When God says he will do something you can trust that he will.