Our new session of DivorceCare meets every Thursday from 6:30-8:00pm on Zoom, beginning this Thurs., Jan. 26. During the 13-week online sessions, you will be supported by others who understand and relate to your journey with great compassion and caring. The workbook can be purchased online for $20, and group members may join at any point during our 13-week online session. Visit our group page for more info or to register.

All singles and single again over age 35 are invited to our monthly fellowship. Through workshops, presentations, and discussions, we hope to share healthy relationship principles as singles and single households, and build a safe place for support and growth as singles navigate through stages of individual and family life. Join us at Bridges on the 4^th Saturday every month (unless otherwise announced), 5:30-7:30pm. This gathering is free! Click HERE for details. Questions? Call Susanna Chan: 706-341-7655.

Bridges is partnering with several other local churches to host, in person on our campus, the Tim Tebow Foundation’s Night to Shine Prom for teens and young adults with special needs. To make this beautiful night happen, we need over 500 volunteers to make this evening a success, including help supporting parents in the parent room, parking and safety teams, decorations, hair stylists, make up artists, shoe shiners, set up, clean up, and more. For details, visit bridges.church/serviceopportunities.

In partnership with Feed My Starving Children, we are looking for 1,000 volunteers to hand-pack 200,000 nutritious meals for hungry children around the world. The Silicon Valley Mobile Pack is taking place on the Bridges campus on Fri., March 3 and Sat., March 4. There are 5 packing shifts to choose from that are currently available to us early since we are a partner organization, but they open to the public on Feb. 4, so sign up HERE using the Priority Code: pack2023! For details and to donate toward this project, visit bridges.church/serviceopportunities.

Join MUCH Hope as they serve local homeless shelters by providing regular dinners. Sign up HERE to drop off part of the meal at the Bridges kitchen on any designated Sunday between 12:30 and 1:30pm, or at 9:00am before church. For questions, contact sujana.panthulu@gmail.com.

Gather with other members of our Bridges family on Fri., Feb. 3, at 6:00pm in the Family Center to celebrate our monthly First Fridays. [PLEASE NOTE: Earlier start time this month.] We gather on the first Friday of each month to proclaim what God has done and prepare our hearts for the month ahead. 

This month, we will enjoy a SOUPer Meal together (soup and bread) before hearing about love for others. We’ll end the evening stuffing bags for our Night to Shine event on February 10.

A memorial service for Jack Griffin will be held on Sat., Feb. 4, at 11:00am at Bridges. Please continue to remember the Griffin family in your prayers.

We are having a meeting and lunch for all of our Children’s Ministry volunteers on Sun., Feb. 5, right after the worship service. Please put this on your calendar! We will be communicating important information about new laws regarding background checks (including LiveScan fingerprinting on site), emergency procedures, and lots of other good information—as well as enjoying fellowship with one another. Please RSVP to Kathy by Feb. 1.

Register today for Connecting Heart & Soul, a 2-day conference designed to help couples improve their spiritual and emotional intimacy with each other by developing a deeper understanding of how they connect and bond in foundational areas. Join us at Bridges on Fri., March 24, 7:00-9:00pm and Sat., March 25, 9:30am - 2:30pm and hear from Dr. Chris & Alisa Grace, Co-Directors of Biola University's Center for Marriage & Relationships. Receive fun, practical tools to help you experience renewed intimacy as a couple, and enjoy deeper emotional and spiritual intimacy through improved communication and conflict resolution. For details and to register, visit bridges.church/heartandsoul.

Our new GriefShare session, facilitated by Allen Bates and Charlie Mason, meets every Monday at 6:30pm via Zoom. This group meets weekly for 90 minutes and is open to anyone who has lost a loved one. Through videos, discussions and a workbook, you will move through mourning to joy and find comfort in sharing your loss with others in similar situations. For more information, click HERE.

Your tax statement is available online through InFellowship, which allows you to view your giving history anytime, regardless of how you give to Bridges. If you don't know how to access your InFellowship account, please visit connectbcc.org/taxstatement. We will send paper statements to those who request one, so please make sure your mailing address is correct in our system. If you requested one last year, you do not need to request it again. Paper statements will be mailed no later than January 31. If you have any problems with retrieving your statement through InFellowship or if you would like to receive a paper statement, please contact Financial Secretary Jackie Ogdon: jackie@bridges.church or 650-948-5698 x199.

Are you interested in being part of the Bridges choir or orchestra? Click HERE to let us know and to join our newsletter so we can send you the rehearsal and service schedule. All ages and abilities are welcome! No experience necessary.

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.

Men, are you cleaning out your closet and have a suit or two to get rid of? Donate your suits to San Francisco Adult & Teen Challenge! This is a live-in program for men and teens with addiction problems, to help change their lives through Christ. As the men approach graduation from this strict and structured program with a very high success rate, they are required to find work. One of your suits could help in those efforts as they interview and begin a new career! To coordinate the donation of your suit, please contact Don D'Arcy: dwdarcy.dd@gmail.com.

We loved hearing at this year's Annual Meeting how absolutely amazing Restoration Music Ministry is at reaching children in the Brazilian favelas for Christ. We as a church would like to continue helping the ministry grow by either donating instruments or providing financial support. For details about this opportunity, click HERE.

These are our current year-to-date giving figures: Actual is $652,241; budgeted is $754,000; shortfall is $101,759. These figures reflect 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.

"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.

Missed last week's message? Click HERE to watch January 22: "The Blessing of Elders" by Pastor Dan Stockum. All past Sunday messages are available on our Sermons page.

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.

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.

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.

A third prayer group meets in person on Sunday mornings, 8:15-8:45am in Room 116.

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!

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, 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.