Thanksgiving @ West Bridge

Hope Bible Church is a new church plant in Danville that started meeting in Sept of 2025. They are a church plant from Radiant Bible Church in Avon. One of their needs is a portable baptistry as they need to setup and tear down weekly.

$5,000 will help them have a place to baptize believers. 

West Bridge is a part of the Crossroads Fellowship, a network of like minded churches in Indiana. Recently, the fellowship received a matching grant to help establish a gospel presence in all 92 Indiana Counties.

The $10,000 we hope to give them will be matched dollar for dollar to plant a new church in the coming year. 

Lifewise is a Christian based biblical education program that takes place during school hours and is held here at West Bridge. Over 100 kids take part in this weekly.

$3,000 will be given to help offset some of their expenses. 

We've partnered with Danville Schools for a few years now to provide local mental health counseling. We see a great need to continue this partnership and help the students in our community get the help they need.

We plan to give $3,000 to this fund to keep it going.

Lifeline Meal Packs are a great way to make a tangible difference in peoples lives around the world. Meals are packed here and sent, ready to use, to churches in Honduras and Ecuador to pass out to people in need. During Day Camp this past year our kids packed over 10,000 meals that week. On Sunday February 8th, we'll pack meals as a church and hopefully surpass that number.

If you want to read more about Lifeline, click here.

A few years ago, Rich & Cherry Smith (our supported Missionaries in Guatemala) started learning more about a huge issue in the area of orphan care. Specifically, the need to disciple/mentor those in their teen years living within systems of protection, especially those who then ‘age out ‘at the age of 18.

Most of the time, these kids have nearly no resources, nowhere to go & no one to go to. This vulnerability puts these kids in extremely high-risk situations.

So Rich & Cherry started praying...praying for funds for a piece of land, for funds needed to build a Training Center as well as a Transition Home and staff to help with all of it.

Casa De Gracia is now in the second phase of their project. This time next year they will be ministering to the girls living at the transition home.

$10,000 will go towards a clinic space that can serve the local community while also helping these girls learn valuable skills to begin a career. 

Read more about their project here. 

Bethesda Outreach offers compassionate care for orphans in South Africa. Originally started in response to the AIDS epidemic, Bethesda continues to impact hundreds of orphans each year.  

$15,000 will go to help offset Bethesda's rising costs of reaching more orphans. 

We have 2 missionaries who've expressed an interest in utilizing young adults in an internship setting to expose them to missions and potential future opportunities.

$5,000 will be used to help pay for the expenses around getting them to the field to minister alongside our missionaries. 

West Bridge is blessed to have 40 acres of property. $50,000 will go to help further utilize our property for ministry. The addition of extra parking and a walking trail will address our parking limitations on Sunday but our hope is the walking trail will provide another avenue for people to enjoy God's creation and others areas of interest on our property like the Disc Golf Course and Playground/Pavilion areas.