Harvest Bayshore Celebration Dinner

Harvest Bayshore Celebration Dinner

Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

In May, Pastors Katie and Jennifer met with Dan Jackson, the Director of New Church Starts for the Florida Conference, for some guidance on next steps with Bayshore. At that meeting, Dan shared that he had arrived at a place of discernment that it was time to completely close Bayshore, and to transfer the property back to the Conference for sale. Unfortunately, it took the Conference a while to get their side of things in order and we weren’t free to share details with the people of Harvest until now.  

While there’s certainly a loss over saying goodbye to our Bayshore campus, we are also very aware that God has done wonderful things over the past 3 years. We want to share in a time of celebration together – telling stories of God’s people and the community of Bayshore and our ministry together. The celebration is scheduled for November 28 at 6:30 p.m. We’ll meet together at Olive Garden (14th St W, Bradenton, FL 34207) to share a meal, tell stories, pray and laugh. 

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You can also email Pastor Jennifer Potter Buff. The registration deadline is November 25.

In sharing this news with some of the people intimately connected to Bayshore, the first question has been about the memorial garden on the Bayshore property. While we can’t move the entire memorial garden over to Lakewood Ranch, we will move a piece. While we know that the earth has done it’s work returning ashes to ashes and dust to dust, we’ll remember the saints who have been buried in the Christ UMC memorial garden  and bear witness to their lives and memories by remembering them in the Harvest memorial garden.  

Thank you for being on this journey with us. For the work and ministry of the people called Bayshore, we give thanks to God and we celebrate that season of ministry in the story of Harvest.

 

 

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