Bridge 45 is Still Alive and Well

Wow! It's been a LONG time since I posted on this blog! We're two weeks into our second year of Bridge 45 and it's going well! I'll post more soon about what we're developing in our curriculum for the second year!

But.... in the mean time... something cool:
I don't remember if I had written on here about how I was asked to present at this past year's Conspire Conference in the same session that inspired Bridge 45 the year before. It was great! I loved being able to share what God has shown us, and how we've seen the benefits of it.

This afternoon, over 6 months after Conspire, I received a call from a lady in Kansas named Regan. She had been in the session Mindy Stohms and I did about fourth and fifth grade ministry, and was inspired to make changes at her church! She was calling because the kids in her program have already outgrown their current curriculum, and she's needing to do something new. We talked about how we formatted our program, what we're studying, etc. and other curriculums I would suggest she look at. She told me that she had bought the CD of our session, and relistened to it for inspiration!

This was so encouraging for me to hear that someone was actually impacted by what we shared! Regan said it meant so much to her to be told to work with what you have instead of being limited by what you don't have. That's what Bridge 45 has been all about for us: we took a look at what resources and people were available to us and made a program that worked within those parameters.

I just had to share my moment of encouragement from this afternoon!