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river falls update
Our current work this summer in River Falls consists of recently had a round of updates and upgrades done by our

two major themes: Running the Sunday evening Bible study landlord, the most important of which was to get the A/C
and outfitting our building for Street Level this fall. We working.
currently are meeting Sundays at 5pm at our new location In addition to these things, we have been working
for an evening Bible Study. We are looking at the book of toward getting Word on the Street in more locations here in
Matthew with a fairly open method of verse-by-verse town. We are currently have the magazine at six locations
teaching and discussion. The study has been a slow start this and are slowing adding more. It is sometimes two steps
summer, but we continue to look for opportunities to invite forward and one step back – recently, new management at a
people and keep praying. The current simplicity gives us a local business meant that everyone’s magazines and ads go
good chance to test out how meals work in conjunction with away. There certainly are plenty of more businesses to ask,
the studies, and it also allows us to experiment with different so we will keep getting out there and seeing what God wants
setups at in our building to see what is most conducive. Two to do.
or more people from JFB Menomonie continue to join us If you’re inclined to pray for the ministry here, please
each week - we’re thankful for their participation and pray that we have the focus to spend time with the right
prayers. It also gives them a chance to see what is happening people, and vision wide enough to move from the familiar
here with the ministry. things to the things we don’t yet perceive.
The building we have is slowing being fleshed out. It is
being transformed to a stark office to a place that would be Jonah
worth spending some time at (we think). We’ve recently River Falls Outreach
obtained 5 tall round tables. The plan is to have them lining
the wall with windows to create a café vibe. This will make
more sense this fall when we attempt to begin to use the
location as a regular student study location. We’ve also
added a bunch of plants, and are getting the wall décor
figured out. It’s been a slow, but fun process. Thankfully, we

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