06/01/2026
We came together to honor the Bradleys for their faithful service to our youth and through our worship team over an incredible season of ministry! The Lord has used them powerfully to draw hearts to Christ and his gospel, and we can’t wait to cheer them on as they help plant a new church in their next chapter ❤️ Matt shared a moving and fitting liturgy on Sunday from Every Moment Holy, which perfectly captures our sentiments:
Thank you, O God,
that we do not walk this road alone,
but that this journey toward eternity
and toward your heart has been, from the
beginning, one that you ordained we should
undertake in the glad and good company
of our fellow pilgrims.
O Lord, make us ever mindful of one another
unto the end that we would labor in the
days to come as those who would tend and
encourage the stories of those around us by
prayer and friendship and thoughtfulness and
conversation, affirming and sharpening and
amplifying one another’s good works, unto the
end that your body would be built up, and that
your kingdom would be more fully realized
in this world.
Thank you, O God,
for the mercy and the beauty
incarnated in the words and acts of these
your people, extended one toward another.
It is no accident that we were born in the same
epoch, and that our stories have twined in this
time and in this place.
Let us therefore go forth
and steward one another’s stories.
Let us journey from here together, as vessels
of that mercy and as stewards of that wild and
wondrous beauty that flows from the heart and
mind of our Creator.
O Spirit of God, be as present in our parting
as you were in our gathering.
Be present in our journeys.
Be present in our days to come.
Be present in our works
and in our words
and in our hearts.
Be present in the bonds of our
community, Lord Christ.
Be ever at work among us
and through us.
