BREAD

Participate in BREAD for 2024

Each day, our community is praying through the scriptures, using the acronym BREAD as our guide. The order of daily readings comes from the Revised Common Lectionary, a way of uniting the global Church around the Church Calendar through the same selected scripture passages together daily. Now is the perfect time to recommit to this practice, or jump in for the first time. This approach to scripture reading invites us to:

  • BREATHE: Find a place where you can encounter God, ask him to fill the space, and then take a minute in in stillness.

  • READ: Slowly read through the passage of the day, find a verse that stands out or grabs your attention. Write it down.

  • ENCOUNTER: Take your chosen verse, meditate on it, and consider what God might be saying to you.

  • APPLY: Turn your focus outward, and think about how you might practically live out what God is saying today.

  • DEVOTE: Close by writing a simple prayer of devotion to God.

Seek to spend at least 10 minutes each day in the scriptures, with BREAD as your guide—journaling if you are able— ideally before you turn your phone on.

  • Throughout 2024, our church will be engaging in a corporate reading of portions of the Old and New Testaments, using BREAD as a guide. The order of daily readings comes from the Revised Common Lectionary, a way of uniting the global Church around the Church Calendar through prayerfully reading the same selected scripture passages together daily. As we pray through the scriptures together as a church, our hope is to become agents of kingdom renewal in the places we live, work, and spend our time.

  • We have created beautiful, hardcover BREAD Journals for 2024. You can pick up a journal at one of our Sunday gatherings for $20. A digital copy of the BREAD journal is available in PDF format here. It contains our church’s reading plan for 2024 as well as plenty of room to write.

  • We have also created a BREAD for Kids Journal so that all of our Park Hill Kids can read alongside the rest of the church body this year! Hard copies of the Kids Journal are for sale at the connect desk on a Sunday morning for $10! Also, a digital copy of the Kid’s Journal is available in PDF format here.