8th Graders Go Tubing!!!

This past weekend, January 23rd-24th, 10 of our 8th graders joined us for a tubing trip near Kalamazoo, MI! Everyone had a blast and we didn't even have any injuries, minus a couple bruises! For most of the students, it was their first time ever tubing and first visit to Michigan.

Friday night, we hung out at the hotel swimming, playing the Wii, and just hanging out. Saturday we got up early, enjoyed some delicious waffles from the hotel's breakfast bar, and made our way to Timber Ridge! Although we had to wait a couple hours until the tubing hill opened, we entertained ourselves with most of us playing Phrase 10. As soon as the tubing hill opened we were on it, quickly getting sprayed with snow as we raced each other down the hill!!! Here are a few pics from the trip! We'd love to hear your comments!

Bridges Christmas Bash

This year marked our 4th Christmas Bash Party. We had a great turnout, giving presents to around 150 students and feeding close to 250 Bridges youth and families. Sorry we ran out of pizza. Here is what our students thought about the party:

BTC Christmas Party!!!

Although Christmas is now long gone, and for many of us seems like forever ago, we wanted to post some pictures from our BTC Christmas Party. During the week of finals, our high school students got to enjoy two Christmas parties with us.

The first was an all Bridges Christmas Party where we were able to honor all of our middle school and high school students who had excellent attendance and academic achievement throughout first semester. We were also blessed by a donor from the community who made it possible for our students to receive a Christmas gift! It was a great evening where families were able to support their student's involvement in Bridges!

The next night our high schoolers brought the best white elephant gift they could find in hopes they might be able to exchange it for an even better gift during our white elephant gift exchange! We had a great time just hanging out, eating delicious food, decorating Christmas cookies, and playing games! Here are just a couple pics from that night.



After New Years, BTC picked up meeting again Monday, January 5th! We have a bunch of exciting things going on this semester. Be sure to join us every Monday & Wednesday night from 6:30-8:30 pm downtown at the YMCA!