Outreach Partners Update
BridgePointe gives ten percent of its budget to support ministries that are expanding God's kingdom. BP's Outreach Leadership Team works to identify and maintain ministry relationships, prayerfully allocate funds, and work with our outreach partners. The Outreach Leadership Team has provided the following updates and prayer points so that you can join in praying for our outreach partners.
City Coast Church, Fairfield County, CT
We are financially supporting Charlie Welke as he is in the runway to launch City Coast Church in Fairfield, CT in the fall of 2022. They have held their first events leading up to Easter and are currently having monthly meetings in a local elementary school, bringing together a new faith community. BridgePointe is also helping with supply and equipment needs, and will have the opportunity to send volunteers down in the fall to help with the launch.
As they continue to search for a location to meet in weekly when they launch services in October, pray that they would find the right facility.
Pray for the Welke family, wife Leslie and four children, as they continue to settle in and make relationships in the community. Pray for spiritual protection for them as they seek to reach those in Fairfield County who are spiritually hungry and curious about the gospel.
BridgePointe is proud to support Sojourn, which exists to connect with college students on their campuses and share the love of Jesus. They’ve recently hired several staff members in Boston, an area they have been praying about reaching. Currently, Sojourn is discipling 300 students.
As Sojourn is preparing to launch a ministry hub on the Providence College campus, pray that they would find the two additional staff members they need.
Sojourn is mourning the loss of an alumni. Pray for comfort and healing for those ministry team members who are grieving, as well as the alumnus’s family and friends.
BridgePointe has been behind Church 180 and their pastor, Tony Collins, since their launch. On Easter Sunday, they celebrated with two services and 250 people in attendance. They will have a big Outreach Week in July.
Pray that Church 180 would touch lives in the name of Jesus during Outreach Week, and build meaningful relationships with those in their community.
Pray for direction as BP plans a trip to support Church 180 in 2023.
Tanner Green, interim pastor of OceanPointe Christian Church in Newport, also began working with Orchard Church Planting, focusing on rebuilding relationships within the New England network of churches. He provided valuable leadership to OceanPointe as they have been experiencing a difficult season.
Pray for OceanPointe, their leadership, and their members, as the church transitions and restabalizes. Pray that they would reach the people in and around Newport.
Pray for Tanner Green and the work he is doing with Orchard Church Planting.