Winter in February

Hi everyone 

 

The past month with having Covid scares and the winter storm, I spent a lot of time at home, but thanks to technology, I was still able to keep in contact and meet with students and have class. 

We are continuing with our class in New Testament, Spiritual Leadership, and Maturing with Mandy. With our New Testament class, we now venturing into scripture while also applying the little knowledge we have on history and culture. It has certainly been insightful to see and read the gospels and even some of Paul's epistles in a new light while also trying to understand the deep meaning of what is being said in the scriptures that we are reading. 

With our Spiritual Leadership class, we have been reading a book called Vulnerable Pastor, which is about how pastors can be human too and don’t need to strive to look perfect in the eyes of the congregation that they lead. It has been good to read this because it has opened my eyes to the importance vulnerability has in every congregation and relationship that you have and the value that it has as well. 

Lastly, in Maturing with Mandy we are talking about body stewardship and what it means to stewards of our bodies. This is difficult to figure out as we have different ways that we take care of our bodies, but it has been good to go into scripture and see what God thinks about our bodies and how we can change our form of thinking. 

Richland Focus this month has been doing their usual thing though there a couple of times we had to do focus online. Our students have been very receptive to our sermon about "Stuff Jesus Never Said", and have been thinking more deeply about the things that the world says as opposed to things Jesus has to say. 

Prayers 

This next year I have decided not to stay on staff with Focus and have decided to go into a different job. I ask for prayers with the transition into a new field and looking for a job. 

Thank you for Supporting me! 
Bridgett 

Start to a New Semester

 Hi everyone!

Last month started well with kicking off a new semester starting new classes and much more.

At the beginning of each semester, the staff has the privilege of going on a retreat. On these retreats, we get to spend time with the people that work at other campuses and get time to reflect on what the new semester is going to look like going forward. With that, I was able to get some good rest and get to know and catch up with some people I hadn't see in a while during the retreat. Apart from that, we also discussed a book we were assigned to read over the break called Money and Power that took into how we should be thinking about money.  

This semester we began our New Testament class. So far, we have been learning about the history and culture that was present during the New Testament times. This class has been helpful with trying to understand what issues were being addressed in the New Testament times that in some ways are still present today. 

At Richland, we kicked off the new semester well. Many of our students were excited to be back in the community again and to start the semester well. This first half of the semester we are going to be starting our new sermon series on Stuff Jesus Never Said, which is going to be talking about saying that our culture tells us about Christianity or ourselves as individuals. 

Prayers 

Please be praying for our students to not get Covid, 

for them to have a good semester, 

for new students leaders in the Richland ministry

Thank you so much and may God bless you! 

Bridgett