Ah, summertime is here and our warehouse and the bridge sure does liven up with all the wonderful Adventure in Missions groups. As I am typing this another group from AIM is in the warehouse serving hard and singing at the top of their lungs. Love their energy. We have been working with AIM for the past two years. Here at The Bridge Ministry we have 9 full-time staff and 1 part-time. When summer comes, what that means is “HELP” for us. You may not know but The Bridge Ministry feeds 350-400 under the Jefferson Street Bridge every Tuesday evening. We have done this for the past 13 years. We also provide food bags for school children on the weekends. At the end of the school this year, we were serving 1100 children per week, and now in the summer, 1700 per week. All of this requires a lot of preparation, packing, loading and delivering. That is why, VOLUNTEERS ARE SO IMPORTANT TO US!!!!!
Last week we had Shonda Foublasse (AIM leader) and her group from Faith Fellowship Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. Loved, loved, loved them! They served so hard and strong. Such sweet, sweet servant hearts. This group served under the bridge and in the warehouse all week. I came back from lunch one day and had the sweetest card from them with a gift inside for the ministry. What?!?! Who does that? They did. I can’t tell you how much that meant to us. I believe these kids and adults were changed this past week and I truly know all about that.
A sidenote: One of the reasons I love AIM besides the fact they bring awesome groups to serve, in 2015 my 21 yrs old daughter came to me and said that she was going to India with an organization named Adventures in Missions and it made me very nervous because she found this organization online. My first question was “How do you know this is a reputable organization?” Just so happened, we had our new “Groups Pastor” come on staff at our church and as I shared with him about her desire to go to India, he knew all about AIM and gave them a very high recommendation. So…I felt better. January 2016 she left for 3 months to India and Nepal on what’s called a Passport trip with 14 people she had never met. It changed her life. Those 14 teammates became her family and probably will always be. The stories that she has shared have blown me away. She has traveled to two weddings of those teammates. And guess what?! Now she is preparing to go back to India for a year to serve in one of the orphanages she worked with during the Passport trip. That is hard to type but I know that she is called. So when AIM called The Bridge Ministry office I was so surprised and excited.
Thank you Adventures in Missions for helping to make “World Changers”!!
Shelia Weathers
Volunteer Coordinator
The Bridge Ministry
