Outreach
As we follow Jesus, we also follow His heart that all people, near and far, would know His love and grace. Currently, 33% of every dollar that comes into New Bridge is designated to ministries and partnerships outside of ourselves. In Acts 1:8, Jesus told His disciples that they would be His witnesses in "Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the world." Our Extension Outreach Team have structured our outreach ministries among similar geographic lines.
"But you will recieve power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
- Acts 1:8 (CSB)
The Food Pantry
The Pantry is available to our community and is located on the 8th St side of the building by the loading dock. Please stop by to check it out or take a bag of items for yourself or for a friend in need. We are open Sundays after the second service ends (around 12-1 PM) and Tuesdays from 11 AM - 12 PM. We have a great team of folks that volunteer to help keep the Pantry running and we a donation bins in the lobby to collect non-perishable food, pet food, and toiletries. Contact pantry@nbccoly.org for more information.
Projects Team
New Bridge has a team of volunteers who are able to help out with certain house repairs or other small jobs around your home. This group is very capable and they love to serve those in need. If you have a neighbor or friend who has a home repair project that cannot meet this need on their own, contact projects@nbccoly.org and we'll see if there are ways the New Bridge Projects team can help out.
Table Grace with Baptist Church
Our life groups pray for opportunities to serve and meet the needs of those God has placed in their lives. We believe they are an important part of how God is making His love known through our church. The Extension Team provides financial assistance when needed so that life groups can respond to these practical needs and engage in opportunities to serve their community. extension@nbccoly.org
Neighborhood Organizations
NBCC is reaching out to our immediate neighbors and our Life Groups have take opportunities to support community events with service related projects. Contact extension@nbccoly.org if you have questions about our involvement with our neighborhood and local organizations.
City Gates
City Gates is a ministry in Olympia that has been reaching out to help people on the streets of Olympia since 1995. They and their many volunteers help those in need with food, furniture, clothing, guidance, and more. New Bridge partners with City Gates to help those who come to us with immediate financial needs. City Gates refers some of their people to New Bridge to find a church home. New Bridge has a few Life Groups and individuals that are dedicated volunteers and even staff at City Gates. Contact extension@nbccoly.org if you would like to find out more and get in touch with the New Bridge folks who are involved with this ministry.
Orphan Care Ministry
A few years ago, two New Bridge families approached us to ask if we would consider being a resource for local foster care families. As it turns out, we have a number of individuals and families connected with New Bridge who participate in foster care in some way. Some of these families have come together to share training and other resources with other foster care families in our area. If you are interested in learning more about this group, see their Orphan Care Handbook (PDF file) which explains more about who they are and how you can get involved. You can also contact them at orphancare@nbccoly.org.
Life Groups
Our life groups pray for opportunities to serve and meet the needs of those God has placed in their lives. We believe they are an important part of how God is making His love known through our church. The Extension Team provides financial assistance when needed so that life groups can respond to these practical needs and engage in opportunities to serve their community
Compelled to Care
Compelled to Care serves foster, adoptive and kinship families through building community, training foster parents and providing opportunities to serve, as well as supporting people through the foster licensing process. Compelled to Care began in 2015 as a small group and has grown to be one of the largest ministries of its kind in WA. Compelled to Care serves families in-person from Thurston County to Grays Harbor County and across the state online. Compelled to Care is excited to partner with New Bridge Community Church to host our monthly family dinners that provide a space for parents to share a meal with others who "get it" and be inspired by speakers while the kids are fed and taught curriculum by trauma informed children's ministry leaders.
Freedom River Outreach
New Bridge supports a church a near the Tacome Dome called Freedom River Outreach and their efforts to take Jesus' ministry to the streets of Tacoma and beyond. Freedom River Outreach has an exciting ministry to folks in Tacome who are homeless, struggling with addictions, or have other needs. Pastor Jon Graciano and his wife Cathy have spoken and taught at New Bridge a number of times, so you may be familiar with some of their work.
World Vision Warehouse
New Bridge participates in a Warehouse Program provided by World Vision in Fife, WA. This affords us the opportunity to obtain items for our pantry, for our Projects ministry, or for other needs inside and outside our New Bridge body. There are also opportunities to volunteer at the Warehouse to help other churches and organizations to access these items. For information about this program and New Bridge particpation, contact warehouse@nbccoly.org
Empowering Lives International (ELI)
Poverty, due to lack of skills, and in many cases fueled by addiction to alcholo, grabs hold of a home and can turn parents into depressed tyrants and children into neglected servants only good for fetching water or firewood. Fueled by your partnership, God is bringing new hope to families in such a way that even government officials are taking notice and commenting, "We have never see a program bring such dramatic change to our villages".
God has been pointing the way and opening doors to expand a Spirit-led movement that is empowering lives in villages throughout East Africa. HOPE is igniting.
Kinship United
Kinship United is a Christian non-profit organization that rescues permanently displaced children, orphans, and widows through church planting and orphanage outreach. They partner with local Christians in a number of countries to establish church orphan homes. Their church orphan homes double as a community center, hosting temporary medical clients, tutoring sessions, and more. They employ widows to care for the children so orphans and widows live together, side-by-side with the local church! New Bridge supports a home and outreach center in Ouahiqgouya, Burkina Faso, Africa, a church orphan home in Pabbo, Uganda, Africa, and we helped build a church orphan home in Thailand that reaches out to refugees on the Thailand/Myanmar border. A team went to Uganda in December of 2012 to check out the Kinship United homes and helped us decide on our project to build the church orphan home in Pabbo. In 2015, Pastor Mark and Tim Layton went to Cambodia and Thailand and got to see the beginnings of the church orphan home we helped build for the refugees.