What an amazing journey it has been since opening the New Life Pregnancy Center (NLPC) at Rio Vista. God has been changing the lives of teens, women, children and families. Those of us lucky enough to work at the center each week have been impacted too! One life in particular that touched us all here at the center occurred about 4 months ago. A young woman, only 18 years old, walked through the pregnancy center doors hoping for help, acceptance, and guidance… […more…]
Don’t fret!! The service recordings have been moved to their permanent home on our “Tune Us In” page. Just point your browser to http://audio.thebridgewebsite.com (or bookmark it, or anything) and you will be greeted by all of the recordings in a nice list for your listening pleasure.
We have added some awesome people to the A/V team here at theBridge who are very ambitious to help. Please bear with us as we perfect our methodology for getting these recordings online in a timely and complete manner.
TRAGEDY & HOPE …Her friends and family had been buying her groceries as they could afford it. Soon every helpline had been exhausted when the woman told her story to Casey, a Rio Vista volunteer. Casey knew exactly what to do and helped her… […more…]
DONATE FOR FREE GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 30 percent of each purchase to … […more…]
In June, The Bridge Church, First Southern Baptist Church of Scottsdale and Rio Vista Center partnered together to run the Bible Club for the children in our community. The day started with breakfast and ended with singing and learning about God. What a joyous week it was as 83 children attended and had a blast. First Southern provided every child with backpack full of school supplies. The week was a huge success as God changed many lives and the children of South Phoenix were able to have a week of fun.
Later in the month, 12 teenagers were able to attend…[…more…]
This is the story of six people who went on a mission trip from Phoenix, AZ up to coast of California to Portland, OR and back again. The members of this group were Mike Ricker, Steve Malakowsky, Jeff Petruske, Kristen Vestal, Sean Malakowsky, and Matt Beem. Most of this group are related to a Phoenix church for the homeless and urban poor called Prodigal’s Home.
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
- E.B. White, in an interview with The New York Times in 1969
…This bill is not about enforcement; it is about politics. Personal political ambition, electoral political calculus, and even worse, it is about the politics of fear. SB1070 preys upon the fears of native-born folks who rightfully worry about a population of people who live outside the system; it makes people in the shadows even more afraid of the system they silently contribute toward. Encouraging these fearful sentiments is wrong. It also does not move us toward real solutions… […more…]
If you wonder, yes, we are connected and helping. A percentage of the Bridge offerings go to the Global Response, sending first responders and long-term help to crisis points. So, as you pray for Chile, pray for the workers we send…
Baptist Global Response is moving quickly to assess relief needs in the aftermath of an 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile at 3:34 a.m. Saturday, killing at least 78 people, collapsing buildings and setting off a tsunami. […more…]
HAPPY THANKSGIVING….Check out this story of thankfulness about one of our partners, FSBCS.org. (ps. there is no affiliation with the name “the Bridge” and our church in this story)
April Walker counts her blessings every day.
The Phoenix resident is thankful for her four children, her husband, her home, her job, even her car.
She is thankful for kicking a methamphetamine addiction seven years ago. […read it all…]
Phoenix Enlists Churches in Fighting Crime
“When you see the work The Bridge is doing,which is connecting people to much needed resources,” Kurtenbach said. “You’re connecting people to food stamps. You’re getting people jobs. If you’re doing that, you’re making neighborhoods more stable.”[…read it all…]
an amazing journey it has been since opening the New Life Pregnancy Center (NLPC) at Rio Vista. God has been changing the lives of teens, women, children and families. Those of us lucky enough to work at the center each week have been impacted too! One life in particular that touched us all here at the center occurred about 4 months ago. A young woman, only 18 years old, walked through the pregnancy center doors hoping for help, acceptance, and guidance…
TRAGEDY & HOPE
Summer at Rio
