New beginnings

A local guy came by a few months ago and wanted to help out with our Saturdays at Bridge of Hope. He had done 20 years in prison and had been clean and off heroin for 5 years. He helps out every week and has become a great friend and family to us at BOH. [...]

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God answers prayer

The weather forecast was looking pretty bad for our Christmas party that was to be held outside in the park on December 12th. It was calling for heavy rains. All week, people were asking me what we were to do about the probability of rain. We were giving away Christmas trees, presents to the kids. [...]

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New friends

We had a new family from Tanzania come to the storehouse a week ago. After they were done shopping, we took them home. That is one of my favorite things to do- cruise down University with a car load of friends from other parts of the world. All we can do is laugh and smile [...]

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Making a Difference

Today we had a local lady come and tell us, holding back her tears, how thankful she is for Bridge of Hope being there. That us simply being there, and doing what we are doing each week, the neighborhood is changing. She was sharing how she has hope now. That even her fears of gangs [...]

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Our Faithful Volunteers

above: photos of our weekly food packing assembly line Many of you have experienced our Saturday ministry, a morning filled with much excitement and anticipation: people wait in line for a chance to shop our storehouse, pick up a bag of food for their families; children swarm the crafts area and foosball table and an [...]

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Family Photos

We had the pleasure of having our good friend Daniel Hoffman and his church home group come and take professional family photos of some of our East African families. This was such a rare and exciting event for all of the families because it meant that in addition to having a nice framed family portrait [...]

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Food Bank Fun

We’ve got a fun little story to share about our recent run to the food bank~ This last Thursday Sheri did her normal pickup from the food bank, this is for the food that we would pack into about 150 bags for our Saturday distribution. This week was one of the rare times that the [...]

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Dinner Party with Empanadas!

When you have Alex’s mom cooking up some homemade Colombian-style food you know your in for a treat! Friday we hosted a fun dinner party to get friends together and to raise money for the food distribution program here at Bridge of Hope. Every Saturday we give out 150 bags of food and due to [...]

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Being a Bridge of Hope

This is a good description of Bridge of Hope, taken from the Mo’-Manna website:Bridge of Hope is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping distressed families through transition. Transition can mean many things; recovery from a drug and alcohol addiction, domestic violence, illness, loss of a job, divorce, struggling single parents, widowhood as well as refugees [...]

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