We Love Our Church!

We do!  We love our church!  After a very long and prayerful season of life - we decided several years ago to leave our church that we love and had been attending for about 12 yrs.  We loved and still love the people, the pastor, and the place!  But it was now a super-super-super-mega church which is great for most folks but we were longing for a smaller intimate place of worship. We visited around for almost 2 years before we found the one for us last January.

Little did we know our first Sunday to visit was their first Sunday in their new building.  We knew they had been meeting at the local YMCA but found out at the last minute that had moved to their new facility.  What a joy it was to worship with them the first Sunday they were experiencing in their beautiful little church.  Yes, it's a small white church with a steeple!   It didn't take us long to realize what a place of love it was.  The people were so very friendly!  And since there were only about 80 - 100 people there - we could look around the sanctuary and literally see every face!

The Church at Alden Bridge

And when the very tall pastor (6'8") (Jason Skaer) got up to bring God's Word we knew this was probably the place for us.  Now almost all of the churches we visited also had amazing pastors.  But God just spoke to both of us during Pastor Jason's sermon that this was the place for us. We immediately started attending a small group bible study that we loved.  Everyone there was quite a bit younger than us but we loved that variety.

Friday night, I attended the "kick-off" for the Women's Bible Study led my the sweet sweet pastor's wife, Suzanne!  There were 17 women present - and I loved it!  Last weekend, we had a baptism at one of our member's home that has a swimming pool.  6 people were baptized in a back yard!  I loved it!  And the whole church was invited and we all fit into the backyard!

Our beautiful church with a STEEPLE right before Women's Bible Study Kick-Off!

Last Friday night at our Women's Kick-Off Event.  This is most of the women in our church!!!  The super tall pretty girl right in the middle (next to me) is our pastor's wife, Suzanne!  She's 6'2"!  She and Jason met at Rice University where they both played basketball!  Imagine that!!! ha!

Our new church is called The Church at Alden Bridge.  It is full of love and lovely people.  We know it won't stay little for long because it is such a God-Ordained place but we will certainly enjoy the small size for now.  Right now we have approximately 50 families and about 120 members.

Thank you Lord for bringing us to such a wonderful family to worship together!  Thank you for the intimacy and surrounding love!!