Mike Villar has been part of our band almost from the beginning and he has now agreed to join Roger and Lisa on the Bridge's Equipping Team!

In other churches the "equipping team" would equate to the "pastoral staff" but we're always a little different and we have decided that our day-to-day leadership would be known as an equipping team in keeping with Ephesians 4v.11-13:

"11 And His gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ..."

We started the Bridge believing that God would raise up more leaders to join our Equipping Team and now He has begun to do so.

Mike has taken over the leadership of the worship team in order to give Lisa more time to work on spiritual formation development and Freedom in Christ to help the work of the Bridge grow.

We're very excited to have Mike on board, so make sure you congratulate him!
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Allegan's Cabaret Band Show is set for March 19, 20, 26 and 27 at the Griswold Auditorium in downtownAllegan, the variety show starts at 8 p.m. and will feature 38 songs including your favorite rock oldies, some praise and plenty of laughs with commercial parodies advertising local businesses. 

Proceeds from the evening benefit Wings of Hope Hospice and Palliative Care Inc. in Allegan which provides free care to individuals facing terminal illness. Its services include in-home care, medication to manage pain and grief counseling. Later this year, it hopes to open a live-in facility to provide services for several patients.

Become a fan of the Facebook page "Cabaret Band Show" to get updates on the show and see pictures from previous years' rehearsals.


Contact Ryan Lewis at rmlewis@allegannews.com or (269) 673-5534.





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I got word that the food pantry in Plainwell is empty and that Bigby Coffee in Plainwell is trying to gather some food to help them out. 

If anyone wants to bring groceries to church on Sunday, Rachael Erickson would be happy to deliver it to the pantry. 

Thanks so much!




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Hey, the Bridge has a Facebook page now instead of just a Facebook group! 

Make sure to friend us and stay in touch at facebook.com/thebridgeinallegan!



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The Mission Statement of Set Free Ministries is to set captives free from Satan's bondage through Christ's power and prayer, by encouraging them to know and walk in God's Word.
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At the Bridge we have always acknowledged that none us of has it all together and that we are all in the process of "crossing together" to connect to God, each other, and our community.

To help us "cross" more effectively, Bridge folks, Lisa DeKryger, Martha Mark, and Jody Black, are all currently completing Freedom in Christ training for Set Free Ministries.  This training will give them some skills to help all of us get free from more of the garbage that entangles us and pulls us down and keeps us from being all that God has for us to be.

If you are interested in finding out more about getting free from the junk in your life contact Lisa DeKryger at lisa@crossingtogether.com.




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We're planning on offering another Starting Point class for people who haven't had a chance to take it yet. 

If you haven't taken the Starting Point class yet and would like to please email me (if you just tell me on Sunday morning I WILL forget, so please send it to me in writing.  Thanks!)


For those who don't know, our Starting Point class is the first of three classes that we will offer to help our folks move into deeper relationships with God, each other, and to the community of Allegan.

Our next class - Connecting Point, which will help us move deeper into relationships with one another -   will be offered, hopefully, sometime in April.

Our third class - What's Your Point?, which will help us discover how God has designed us, how He has gifted us, and where He is calling us to serve - will be offered later this summer.

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I'd like to invite you to my blog "...and there's nothing you can do about it". 

It consists of my ramblings on some random things, some funny things, hopefully some profound things... and also mp3's of the Sunday messages from the Bridge.

Check back to it often and make sure to add your own comments and questions - they may give me more ideas for things to write about.




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~Roger