BIG Announcement

Today at The Ridge, Mark made a BIG announcement...

**The Ridge is moving...into a local high school! This is huge for us! Meeting at the school allows us to double our size, maybe triple. It is going to be awesome! Stressful, hard, frustrating-yes, but worth it in the end to reach out to our community to help people find and follow God, a BIG yes!

Our other announcement at church today was that we have hired a student minister! I am not sure who is more excited about this, the students or Eric! Eric has been trying to do student ministry the past couple years, but neighborhood groups have taken off like none other, and he is teaching at least once a month, sometimes twice. So we all do our best to reach out to the kids, but we need help, and now that we have hired someone, Tyler, we can all breath a little easier!

Tyler starts the day we move into the school. What a nice warm welcome, haha, it's going to be crazy, but I think he is ready to jump in with both feet.

One last thing. The last 3 weeks of December The Ridge has been taking up an offering for our ReThinking Christmas series. Well, the grand total is not in yet, but the preliminary numbers are, and so far we have given over $27,000.00 towards building clean drinking wells, and to a local mission in downtown Milwaukee. How awesome! I will let you know the grand total once it is announced.

For those of you who don't know, I have taken a job at The Ridge as the Early Childhood Director. Tomorrow starts my official working week. I came in during December to start learning the ropes, but now I am on my own! I am really excited about this ministry, and I have a heart for kids learning about God at a young age.

Have a great week!