All-Church Summer Kick-Off Potluck |
Join us for an All-Church Summer Kick-Off Potluck on Sun., June 5, at 12:00pm! Please bring a dish to share according to the first letter of your last name – A-C: dessert, D-L: main dish, M-Z: side or salad. Food can be dropped off that morning in the main kitchen. Please prepare the food ready to be served, and label any dishes that accommodate dietary restrictions (especially vegan or gluten-free). If you'd like to provide a list of main ingredients, that would be very helpful to those who have food sensitivities. We also need 3 more volunteers to grill burgers and hot dogs at the potluck, as well as helpers to clean up and assist in other areas. Please contact liliya@bridges.church if you can help.
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Ukrainian Refugee Needs Rental Housing and Car |
A Ukrainian mom who fled the war with her 2 kids (who are enrolled at LACS) is looking for an affordable place to rent. She is also looking to buy a secondhand car. If you have or know of rental housing and/or a car the family can benefit from, please contact Sujana Panthulu: sujana.panthulu@gmail.com or 971-533-5744.
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Volunteers Needed for Sports & More Camp |
We are getting excited for Sports & More Camp coming up June 20-24, 2:00-5:15pm each day. We are still looking for people to serve in several areas of the camp, to help the leaders from Uncharted Waters. You can help at our registration table, preparing snacks, or in one of the areas with our children—basketball, soccer, or art. Please use this link to let us know how you would like to help: HERE. Contact Alba or Kathy with questions or for more information.
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Enroll in Grades K-12 at Los Altos Christian Schools |
LACS is accepting applications for the 2022-2023 school year for Kindergarten-12th grade! Our accredited school serves families with students in general education and students with mild to moderate learning differences. We are excited about their recently opened high school, which helps students excel in "LACS" -- Leadership, Academics, Character, and Service. For more information, visit lacs.com.
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Sports & More Camp—Sign Up Now! |
We are so excited to be able to host our in-person Sports & More Camp again this summer! Join us June 20-24, 2:00-5:15pm on the Bridges campus. We will have a team from Uncharted Waters joining us to help lead ages 6-12 in basketball, soccer, and art, and a fun Sports Skills program for 4 and 5 year olds. For more info or to sign up, visit bridges.church/sportsandmore. Questions? Contact kathy@bridges.church.
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Join us in praying for all the people hurting due to the war in Ukraine, and consider supporting Ukrainians financially by donating toward WorldVenture’s Ukraine Relief Fund HERE.
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Help CityTeam renovate an apartment complex to be used as transitional housing for women and children in crisis. We have committed to help renovate one of the apartments, which means providing $30K in funding and helping with some actual hands-on work (demo, floor and bathroom remodel, paint, etc). To volunteer, contact Steve Durand at steve@bridges.church. To donate toward this project, visit connectbcc.org/give and select the fund Short Term Projects and the sub fund CityTeam.
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Hiring Facilities Maintenance Worker |
We are looking to hire a Facilities Maintenance Worker to perform a variety of routine skilled and semiskilled tasks involving general maintenance of facilities, equipment, and grounds. For details, click HERE. For questions or to apply, email liliya@bridges.church.
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Sunday Morning Nursery & Preschool Volunteers Needed |
The Bridges Nursery and Preschool Ministries are looking for warm, loving volunteers to help care for our babies and kids on Sunday mornings. The nursery needs help during the first or second hour on a weekly, monthly, or quarterly basis. For details or to volunteer, email Liliya Gor at liliya@bridges.church. The preschool needs help during the first or second hour on a monthly basis. For details or to volunteer, email Kathy Spillar at kathy@bridges.church.
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Help Feed Dinners to a Local Shelter |
Join MUCH Hope to provide regular dinners to the WeHope homeless shelter in East Palo Alto. Sign up HERE to drop off part of the meal at the Bridges kitchen on any designated Sunday, 1:30pm-2:30pm. The dinners will then be delivered to WeHope by MUCH Hope. For questions, contact sujana.panthulu@gmail.com.
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Women's Ministry Volunteer Needed |
Bridges is looking for a part-time volunteer Director of Women’s Ministries, who will work with and coordinate leaders for Bible study, and manage community service, outreach, as well as special events. Contact liliya@bridges.church for more information.
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Transportation Help Needed |
We're looking for help providing transportation for people wanting to come to Bridges on Sunday mornings. If you are willing to help once or twice a month, contact Pastor Steve at steve@bridges.church. You can use your own car or our regular-sized church van (no special license required).
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Finance Update as of May 15, 2022 |
These are our current year-to-date giving figures: Actual is $1,191,756; budgeted is $1,259,806; shortfall is $68,050. We are now 5.4% below our General Fund budgeted contributions for the church year, which runs Sept. 1 - Aug. 31.
Did you know that you can text to give? Use your phone’s text messaging function and enter 650-864-4437 as the recipient. In the message field, type “Give” and tap the “send” button. You will receive a text in response with further instructions. More information is available on the BCC giving page.
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Job: Uncertainty, Suffering, and a Sovereign God |
Speaker: Pastor Steve Durand
Message Title: Responding to Suffering with Lament
Scripture Focus: Job
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All of us have known or will know great suffering. We come to learn through experience that sad situations don’t always get better, and life’s problems don’t always get solved. And when those moments inevitably arrive on our doorstep, and when explanations or quick solutions don’t seem to appear on the horizon, few things can be more freeing than to know that God understands, that our frustrations and questions and struggles and doubts do not fluster Him, and that He even invites us to come and to air our grievances before Him in trust.
Join us for this week’s message as we continue our sermon series from the life of Job, and discover the important role that biblical lament can play in helping us to process pain and walk through seasons of grief and sorrow.
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Use YouVersion Live This Sunday |
"YouVersion Bible" is a free app available on most smart phones and mobile devices. Each week, we upload our message notes to YouVersion so you can connect more deeply with the day's teaching. Download the app from Apple's App Store or wherever applications for your device are available. |
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Last Sunday's Message Online Now |
Missed last week's message? Click HERE to watch May 15: "Responding to Suffering with Questions" by Pastor Dan Stockum. All past Sunday messages are available on our Sermons page.
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Connecting Virtually with Our Worship Services |
Can't make it to our on-campus service on Sunday? You can watch a recording online beginning Monday afternoon every week.
You can also listen to our entire worship service on your phone by calling 650-209-7367 anytime after Sunday night football concludes. The service will be accessible all week.
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Submit Your Questions About Our Sermons! |
Do you have a question about this week's sermon? We want to hear it! Click the green box next to the sermon video on THIS page to submit a question. The more we get, the more we know you are interacting with the message, so please send them our way. Depending on the number of questions we receive, we will vary how often we record responses and make those available to you. To see our pastors answer past sermon questions, click HERE.
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Our Bridges family prays together virtually on Wednesdays at noon. We'd love to have you join us, even if you can only get away from other things for five minutes. When we come before God's throne of grace to find mercy and help in our time of need, God hears our prayers and always answers. We invite you to join our prayer time HERE on Zoom every Wednesday at noon. The passcode is: Prayer.
If you can't make the noon meeting, a prayer group also meets on Wednesdays at 7:00pm on Zoom. Please use the same Zoom link and passcode as above.
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Many of our Life Groups and ministries are meeting regularly—some virtually using Zoom and others in person! Click HERE to see our current groups and when and where they meet.
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We’d love for each person to find a place to use their God given-gifts within our Bridges family. If you haven’t already, please take a moment to prayerfully consider how God would like you to serve at Bridges, and let us know by filling out this online form: bridges.church/serve. If you've already filled out the form, a ministry leader will contact you in the coming weeks to arrange next steps. Thank you for helping build our church!
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Need help picking up groceries, setting up tech tools or equipment, running errands, etc.? We have a team of people who are ready and willing to help. Just click HERE to let us know your need, and we will make sure you're taken care of.
If you're able and willing to help others during this time, especially those who cannot leave their homes, please click HERE.
If you have a prayer request that our BCC staff can pray over, please click HERE.
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Bridges Community Church
625 Magdalena Ave.
Los Altos, CA 94024
Ph: 650.948.5698 Fax: 650.949.6052
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