Teams Have Been Building The Bridge!
Over the last year, The Bridge has benefited from many short-term teams who helped get this international church off the ground.
Two days after the Bradford family arrived in France, Pastor John and Sandy Kuert arrived from Evangel Heights Assembly of God in Sarver, Pennsylvania to help us settle and paint the inside of our house here. Judy Morris of Phoenix, Arizona also came last summer for several weeks to help with our children duringthe move. On July 7, a team of 21 from Houston and Sweet, Texas helped us unload our household and ministry goods from a 40′ container!
October 2009 saw the arrival of a prayer team from Lakeview Church in Indianapolis, Indiana who spent a week praying for Paris and its people.
In February, a team came helping with children’s ministry came from Maranatha Worship Center in Wichita, Kansas. Pastor David Wigington of Bloomington, Indiana also did leadership training with our team.
Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri sent a team composed of students and faculty who assisted in flyer distribution, food distribution and helping us to pull off the first public service on March 14, 2010. We also welcomed a building team from People’s Church in Salem, Oregon who did significant building work for a church in Les Mureaux, France.
River Valley Church in Apple Valley, Minnesota sent a media team also in March to help us develop more tools for our internet presence. That same weekend, Pastor George and Debbie Flattery of Stone Church near Chicago also came to encourage our team.
May saw the arrival of a team from Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie, Texas who helped us reach out to people again through distribution of flyers, partnering with French ministry in food distribution and taking part in numerous activities with small groups in The Bridge.
In June, we welcomed a team of 20 from New Life Assembly of God in Lehigh Acres, Florida who passed out 10000 flyers and 2000 bottles of water all helping to spread the word about The Bridge. This group also participated in small groups, food distribution, and helping to finish the sanctuary of a French Assemblies of God church in Les Mureaux, France.
In July, we welcomed a building team of 20 from Calvary Temple of Indianapolis, Indiana. This group of 18 women and 2 men made amazing progress on the building in Les Mureaux that previous teams had worked on. After that group left, a team from Northland Christian Assembly in Flagstaff, Arizona, as well as the Darin Poe family of Springfield, Missouri arrived for a week of outreach and partnership with local French initiatives.
The Bradfords and the rest of The Bridge Team cannot thank these groups enough for the way they have pushed The Bridge ahead in so many areas. This short list (which does not include all the individuals who made trips to Paris in the past year) does not begin to touch on the many ways these groups contributed to making The Bridge, an international church and ministry center in Greater Paris a reality.
The Bridge will continue receiving teams, as we anticipate teams from Wisconsin and Oklahoma in the next year. We look forward to signing more groups up to be a part of some of what God is doing in France!
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