Dear Bay Area Family,
This Sunday we will complete our “Gospel &” series by discussing the issue of Gospel and Culture. Pastor Zac will be preaching. I am excited to hear from him on this important issue. Patrick Lyle, who many of you already know, will be leading the musical part of our worship services this weekend. I am really grateful for Patrick, his wife Lindsey, and their family. What a gift they are to all of us at Bay Area Church and Christian School.
Thanks to all of you who served last weekend at Blessing the Bay Area, our annual church-wide service project. Here is what we did:
- 25 LifeGroups involved
- 19 different projects
- Approximately 550 participants
Types of projects:
- Visiting shut-ins
- Visiting senior adult healthcare facilities
- Visiting local hospital waiting rooms
- Serving at a Women’s shelter
- Providing yardwork for local family
- Providing a Thanksgiving meal for over 220 residents of a local apartment complex
- Providing a “Fall Festival” event sponsored by a partner Family Support Center
- Demo and clean up from water damage to the Family Support Center
- Demo and clean up from water damage to a private home
- Clean up and painting at a local church facility
- Clean up and landscape work at a therapeutic garden
- Assembling and distributing backpacks of personal items to Veterans
- Assembling and distributing backpacks of personal items to the homeless
- Preparation and distribution of lunches to our volunteers
- Harvey Recovery projects in area homes including
- Install flooring
- Finish carpentry and painting
- Clean up, repair and painting at a local youth baseball field
So thank you for being a church that loves your neighbor well. I can’t wait to gather this Sunday and worship our Lord together.
You are loved!
Pastor Brian