Making Room for More!

It’s an exciting time to be a part of BridgePointe! Since making our transition to the new campus, we have experienced new guests exploring us every week. Just this month our attendance jumped 15%. We are experiencing a little under 300 adults and about 70 kids weekly. I have personally had the opportunity to hear some of our guests’ spiritual stories. God is at work! What a privilege to play a part in drawing people close to Him. There is a buzz and excitement in the air that continues to build!

As a result, we have clearly outgrown one service. The most we can get in the worship center is about 250 -  and that’s tight. Last week we had about 240 people in the service. If our 30-40 adult volunteers in our Children’s areas came to the service, we would not be able to hold everyone.

The job of the leadership, now, is to make room for more. We are attempting to answer 2 questions:

·          When is the strategic time to jump to 2 services? Logistically, it takes time to double our volunteer teams to cover two services. We don’t want to make any changes until we get through February, due to several long weekends that would affect attendance. Stay tuned!

·          What is the plan to bring the present meeting spaces together in closer proximity of each other? It has been our vision to move all our facility space to the upper parking lot area to solve this challenge. Pray for a meeting the leadership has this week with the owner of the office park to discuss a plan.

Here’s how you can help be part of the preparation:  Commit to a consistent giving percentage each month. Your consistency in giving has far reaching benefits in your spiritual development. It helps you in being intentional in your giving to God. As well, your consistency and faithfulness helps us see where the church is financially which helps us plan for our future.

The earliest Christ followers saw consistency as a value in their giving practice:

Now about the money being collected for the Christians in Jerusalem: You should follow the same procedures ….. On every Lord's Day, each of you should put aside some amount of money in relation to what you have earned and save it for this offering …

                                                                                                1 Corinthians 16:1-2 

Wow! What a great challenge to have: Making room for more people! Help us take the next step forward and commit to a consistent giving percentage each month. Let’s make room for more!