Great news from Bridgetown Baptist Church!
The Bridgetown Baptist Church has sensed the Holy Spirit’s presence very deeply since its building burnt in April 2024. It now – as of February 14, 2025, in fact – has a new place to call home: the old Bridgetown school. Long before the purchase of the school, however, the Spirit began moving. The church ran an Alpha program a mere two days after the fire, out of which several new members were baptized! The church has also championed the slogan “We are the Church,” creating – with the help of its kids – a banner that now hangs in its temporary meeting place. The tangibility of the message has come to roost among the formerly buildingless congregation!
Through countless Wednesday prayer meetings, meditations on the scriptures, and the investigations of the Visioning Committee, the church opted to renovate the old Bridgetown school instead of building afresh. In order to achieve the church’s ministry goal of serving and connecting with its community, and transforming the lives of the people with whom it comes into contact, it saw the old school as an ideal facility in an optimal location. Moreover, the promptings from wise, mature Christians to renovate came too frequently and too unanticipatedly to be coincidence; these promptings gave the church conviction that the Holy Spirit had plans for it vis-a-vis the old school.
Currently, the church is quite excited as it awaits the finalization of the Renovation Committee while dreaming of turning its new building into a vibrant community outreach centre, replete with a community garden and, perhaps one day, a daycare centre.
– Joshua Brandt, Young Adults Pastor
