A new Green Bay, Wisconsin PCA church is using a well-known Bible story as inspiration for its ministry — and its name. Jacob’s Well aims to share the gospel

Jacob’s Well (http://www.jacobswellgb.org/) started holding public worship services a couple of months ago after members hosted smaller community Bible study sessions in private homes. It takes its name from the biblical story in which Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman when he stops to quench his thirst — at Jacob’s Well. The story says that although the woman has an immoral past, and others have shunned her, Jesus offers her his gift of salvation.

The families who helped start Jacob’s Well hope to help people encounter Christ, much as the woman did at the well, said founding member Shauna Froelich.

“I think one thing we’ve seen … in Green Bay is, there are a lot of people who might go to church or they might get their kid baptized, or you know, they get engaged in religion,” she said, “but they’re missing that personal faith in Christ.“

About 100 people attend weekly services at Jacob’s Well, which is meeting at the Green Bay Community Church in Howard until it finds a home of its own. But the focus now is on being faithful to God, rather than worrying about church size or location, said planting pastor Dan Jackson.

Jackson describes the church, which is part of the Presbyterian Church in America denomination, as evangelical and Bible-based. Its vision is straightforward, he said — to share the gospel with Green Bay.

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