Joe and Karyn Bridges
We are the Bridges family. We have lived in Ethiopia since 2015 and have been working with Ethiopian partners since 2006. Through establishing The Forsaken Children, we have been able create a bridge between donors in the US and intentional ministries to the vulnerable in Ethiopia (namely, children and young women living on the streets, women depending on sex-work to survive, rural girls struggling to stay in school, and those impacted by other traumatic life experiences).
Karyn is a team member of Bingham Academy where our children, Jackson, McLaine and Silas attend school. As the Marketing and Communications Manager, Karyn is able to engage our local and global communities highlighting Bingham’s daily discipleship of students from over 30 Nations (imagine the multiplication!). Joe is part of the small founding team of SIM Ethiopia’s Trauma Healing Project. This project partners with Ethiopian churches to help them form Trauma Healing ministries to impact their communities through scripture paired with mental health best practices. Our prayer is to ignite healing from trauma from the church of Ethiopia, helping her to truly be salt and light to a hurting nation, suffering from centuries of fighting.