Sharing Skills - Shaping Lives
About Us
About Us
BridgesWork offers school-year monthly and summer programs to help achieve our mission which is:
"To participate in the lives of children, equipping them through academic growth, spiritual development, and service to others so that each child can identify future dreams and build bridges to move from those dreams to reality.”
BridgesWork is focused on helping “our kids” build bridges to successful futures. While building these bridges takes money, not one program or service offered to our students generates revenue.
ALL programs and services are dependent upon the generosity of friends, businesses, and foundations. As a 501 (c) (3) organization, all donations to BridgesWork are tax deductible.
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If you would like more information on the tremendous work BridgesWork is doing, have a special question, want to make a contribution or volunteer, this is the place to leave us a message. Get in touch and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. We look forward to hearing from you!
BridgesWork
P.O. Box 1128
Bedford. Texas 76095-1128
2026 Missions Exploration
"Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms." 1 Peter 4:10
The summer of 2026 provided our BridgesWork 7th-and 8th-grade students with a unique opportunity to focus on different aspects of community service. Working with BE THE NEIGHBOR, a justice-based learning ministry that equips people to live lives of love, service, and justice, our students traveled to various locations in Ft. Worth every day for four days, July 6-9.
https:// www.betheneighbor.org. In addition to the Be The Neighbor staff, we were blessed to have three caring and compassionate adults and two student assistants guide us through each day. Pictured above, Mr. Michael Weems, "Coach" Everett Dunkley, and Ms. Rita Young, together with Nelly Lozano Burgos (second from right) and Deserie Barnhart (third from left), accompanied, worked, and "sweated" through all of the activities with the twenty-plus students.
We worked organizing and filling orders for a local food bank; learned how to propagate, compost, and dry vegetables at a community garden; filled individual bags with supplies, snacks, toiletries, and clothing items for homeless individuals; and prepared supplies for the Welman Project to enable teachers to begin implementing their ideas for this fall's return to classes. Additionally, the students discussed how to create their own service programs and continue the BridgesWork commitment to the monthly Ash Lane UMC Mobile Food Pantry during the coming school year.
Follow our adventures in pictures in the NEWS section of this website or on our Facebook page.
Our 2026
Camps Continued Our Enrichment
Program Success
Between July 6 and July 17, 2026, BridgesWork conducted summer enrichment camps for students in grades 1-6, 7-8, and 9-12. Over the two-week period, approximately 125 students attended. Working with 34 adults, they participated in a variety of activities to introduce our annual theme for 2026- 2027, "Be of Service."
The program for grades 1-6 featured reading, STEM, music, Bible lessons, and SEL activities. Additionally, students in grades 1 and 2 attended a special event at My Village Library where Ms. Wendie Lunsford read them a story and helped them create watercolor art paintings of special pets. Grades 1-3 enjoyed a field trip to the Fort Worth Museum and Omni Theater where they learned about the animals of the Kalahari. To support their summer reading, grades 4 - 6 took unique trips related to their books: Grade 4 visited Rita's Italian Ice to learn how they make their cool, sweet treats to align with their book, "Dessert First"; and Grade 5 visited Los Jimadores Mexican Restaurant to align with their book "Stef Soto Taco Queen," where they learned how to make tacos. Grade 6 visited the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum to align with their book "The Devil's Arithmetic".
The 9-12 summer session provided those grade-level students the opportunity to learn, connect, and serve through meaningful activities designed to build leadership, teamwork, and compassion. Throughout the session, students participated in hands-on experiences such as writing inspirational messages to leave in public spaces and making and donating dog toys to the Euless Animal Shelter. These projects encouraged growth, strengthened relationships, and helped students live out our theme of being of service in the community.
Both the 9-12 and 7-8 groups are growing in number, and each worked alongside our sixth-grade class to help maintain the church facility during our two-week camp.
You can learn more about our summer program and see pictures in the NEWS section of this website and on our Facebook page.
