To Save A Life

Some local youth pastors and Bridges Outreach did some work recently to bring a Christian movie to Kokomo. "To Save A Life" was the top movie in Kokomo the weekend it opened (it was in 7 cities throughout Indiana). It is a powerful movie that is extremely relevant to youth and adults. We highly recommend it to anybody 13 and older. Support this film as much as you can and encourage youth to see this positive movie.

Hangin' with Horses

This past Fall 2009 two of our freshmen Bridges students had an amazing opportunity to learn all about horses. Helping Hearts Horse Ranch spent 8 weeks teaching Maria and Samantha how to care for the horses, saddle the horses, walk the horses, and even trot with the horses! The first day the girls were a little timid by the horses, but they quickly gained confidence!!! The girls had a wonderful experience and we are all very thankful to Jay & Pam from Helping Hearts Horse Ranch for volunteering their time to teach our students about horses. We are also very thankful to Juanita who volunteered every week to drive the students to the outskirts of Kokomo to the horse ranch. Here are some pictures of the girls' time out at the horse arena.

Busy Fall for Bridges To College

Fall 2009 has been an extremely busy, yet fun semester for our high school students. We have outgrown our room at the YMCA and so we have added an extra session, with the freshmen meeting after school and the sophomores-seniors meeting in the evening. Here are some pictures of our students in our BTC room at the YMCA.


We started the semester off with a weekend retreat to Spring Hill Camp where the students had a chance to zipline, do the climbing wall, and other high ropes activities. The students were challenged with the theme of "Invent" to discover that God is the ultimate inventor of their lives and that they were also created to invent so they can more closely draw to God.

In October we took our Leadership Team to Indiana Wesleyan University (IWU) for a leadership retreat where the students gained leadership experience and skills through the high ropes course and paintball. They were also challenged by the speaker to live the "DoKnowBe" way. "DoKnowBe" is about Doing as God commands, Knowing God deeply, and grow deeper in relationship with God and others by Being a follower of Him.


We have also enjoyed many other fun activities such as bowling, eating delicious food at our Fall party, a college visit to Purdue University, and a visit to Christmas at the Indianapolis Zoo. We also helped volunteer for the Girls Night Out 5K Run/Walk Fundraiser by passing out water to all the runners/walkers.