Big River Evangelical Free

I first attended BREF church in the summer of 2003. A small town church with a big heart. When I started most of the outreach was done by the pastor and a handful of people. It was a go to church on Sunday kind of crowd but not a lot of other stuff going on throughout the week.

A couple of years later the pastor and his wife took a new church and left Big River. The search for a pastor began. And it went on for a really long time…three years later God brought the perfect match for the little church. But it wasn’t the same church at all. During the hiatus with no pastor the congregation learned what it meant to be a church. Ministries were started, community outreach grew, interim pastors stepped forward to preach, and the body of Christ was strengthened.

This summer when my daughter and I couldn't afford to go to Canada for our annual trip to work at the kids camp in Big River our church family raised the money for us to come. It is such a blessing to be a part of a family of believers like that.

BREF is a very different church now. It is a group of believers who have affected their community for Christ.