Agency Details:

Bridge Ministries, Inc.

Bridge Ministries, Inc. provides opportunities through which individuals and families in Dona Ana County and surrounding areas can receive Christian Counseling for individuals, couples and families, Caring Bridge Friendship Services for the Mentally Ill, and Campus Ministry for students of NMSU. We educate the community as to how these services can assist them in their spiritual, psychological, emotional, behavioral and physical development and well being. While services are offered from a Christian spiritual perspective we also provide secular services for consumers who have a different belief system or no spiritual preference.

Description:
A. Our Caring Bridge Ministry (Formerly Compeer)

Caring Bridge for Adults - matches adults with a mental illness with caring trustworthy volunteers in a companion / peer relationship; a friendship. We also have volunteers help with our weekly social and educational events on Monday Nights.








B. Our Christian Counseling Ministry

provides Christian based professional care in a warm, caring atmosphere for those who need hope, healing, and recovery towards a full and meaningful life. Services are provided through four Church locations and are also available from a secular (non-religious) perspective upon request.

C. Our Community Ministry

Community Ministry has helped many organizations get started and then become their own agencies. Habitat for Humanity, Southern Dona Ana Action for Youth, Las Cruces Action for Youth, and the Collaborative of Dona Ana County all were "incubated" at the Bridge in our community ministry.

D. Our Presbyterian Campus Ministry

Receives no United Way Funds

Is a Christian Mission the Presbyterian Church (USA). Through our rich heritage of emphasizing Education, Cooperation with other Denominations, and the Bible, the Presbyterian Campus Ministry reaches out to the university and community colleges in the Las Cruces area with a sensitivity to the diversity and transitory nature of the people in our communities. Our mission is to Bridge students from our campus communities into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Both Evangelism & Discipleship programs are provided to meet students & other participants where they are' & actively encourages them in their Christian walk.

The Presbyterian Campus Ministry receives no United Way Funds

History:
A Short History of the Bridge Ministries, Inc.

Our Ministry came into being some date prior to the Fall of 1945 as the 'Young People's Westminster Fellowship' at the First Presbyterian Church in Las Cruces providing 'services for the trainees at the college and other visiting servicemen as well as activities for the new students at the college' (then called New Mexico A & M). This outreach to NMSU has always been the Core of our Ministry's Mission and Vision.

In 2000, three of the ministries below (Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Christian Counseling, & Caring Bridge) became the BRIDGE Ministries, Inc., an Umbrella Christian Based Not for Profit Corporation.

In 2001, a fourth ministry was created, the Community Ministry. The need for this ministry arose when we were awarded contracts from funding sources that did not fit within the missions of the other three Ministries.

All four of our Ministries rely heavily on volunteer NMSU student interns and other Volunteers from our communities to provide these valuable services to the people of Dona Ana County and the surrounding areas.

Our Mission is to continue to be a

A Bridge of Faith and Healing

Over a River of Doubt and Pain

For all the people of NMSU

and Southern New Mexico

Contact people:

David Sallee, Pastor / Executive Director, (phone), (email) Angela Gallegos, Program Director, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (575) 522-0031

Languages Spoken: English

Address:

2511 Chaparral Street Las Cruces, NM 88001 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.nmsu.edu/`bridge

Directions:

One Block off of University and One Block off of Solano at the corner of Mesa and Chaparral.   Nearest Bus Stop: University, 5 minute walk

Last updated on April 30, 2009