The History of The Bridge Ministry

On September 19, 2009, my wife Julie myself and several volunteers from various churches began serving the people of the Bridge Park neighborhood in Lawton Oklahoma. We serve a variety of needy people from the homeless, to low-income families and single mothers. Each Saturday we serve a hot meal, give all types of clothing, shoes, and coats away, we have a wonderful children's ministry where children can learn about Jesus, color, and play games. We give away diapers to parents and grandparents of small children. We share the gospel for those who choose to stay and listen but most of all we want to demonstrate the Love of Jesus Christ by serving them...

10 1/2 years later in March 2020 Covid19 changed everything.  The City of lawton closed all the parks so for the first time since we started the ministry we were shut down. Everything closed except for essential business and services. Instead of shutting down and staying home during the shutdown period God led us to use our ministry property 2 blocks east of the park to serve a hot meal to all the people effected by the loss of their jobs and income. The City considered us an essential service, so on March 20, 2020 we started serving a hot lunch to the needy people 6 days a week. We continued this for 7 weeks until the shutdown ended on the 1st of May. During that time by God’s grace and some incredible church and induvial volunteers we fed 14,674 meals, prayed and encouraged hundreds of people sharing with them the hope and saving grace of Jesus! On Saturday May 2nd we started holding our worship service again but not in the park. We stayed at our ministry property we moved to from the park which we now call “The Bridge House” and continue to serve the people and share the good news of Jesus every Saturday, Lord willing!