2019-2020 Annual Report

Every number is a person. Every person has a story.

These numbers are the story of God's faithfulness.

A Message From
Pastor Craig
“Bridge Family,

As we have reflected over what the last

year has brought and poured over the
numbers you’ll see in the following
pages, all we could do was stand in awe.
It was another year of God’s sovereign-
ty, grace, and faithfulness, and through
no power of our own, The Bridge has
continued to grow and be a vessel for the
gospel message to spread in our cities,
nation, and world.

We are honored to share the 2019/2020 Annual Report with you, knowing that it will be a
reminder of God’s promises and His faithfulness to His bride, the church. As you read, we
ask that you would approach these numbers with two things: thankfulness and expectancy.
May we be so thankful to be witnesses of the incredible work He has done, and may we pray
confidently with the expectation that He will do it again.

The Bridge is a movement, and there is so much more in store. The impact we are able to
have for the gospel would not be possible without your generosity. Thank you for being a
part of what God is doing in our midst.”

- Craig McKown

Mission Statement:
The Bridge Church is a movement for all people to Know God,
Find Freedom, Discover Calling, and Make a Difference.

Bridge Online
Bridge Online launched just when the
pandemic began to impact our area in March
2020, and by God’s provision, we were able to
immediately launch services online, reaching
people even beyond our nation’s borders with
the message of the gospel. These are stories of
the church scattered--when we were not just
one church in two locations, but one church in
thousands. Bridge Online enables us to reach
people who can’t reach us or won’t reach us.

Chelsea Brown (pictured right) was one of

those people. She and her husband, Wes, joined
us through Bridge Online from their home in
Colorado. While quarantined, Chelsea made
the decision to follow Christ in baptism, and we
had the honor to meet her where she was and
celebrate alongside her.

41 Decisions for
Christ Online

Average Unique
Viewers 5,009

375 Families Served Through

Bridge Kids Online

Students Participating
in Summer Crews 263

Reach

2,861 Average Total

Attendance

Bridge Kids
Attendance 777

205 Bridge Students

Attendance

First Time
Guests 2,099

163 Baptisms

Bridge Missions

99,907 People Reached

with the Gospel
through Missions
Partners

Salvations through
Missions Partners 9,333

9,302 Families Served through

Local Missions Partners

Donated to
Nashville
Tornado Relief
$55,311.50

1,139 People Giving to

No More Fatherless

Amount Pledged
to No More
Fatherless $2,555,635

$2,294,591 Amount Given

to No More
Fatherless

Children Adopted through

No More Fatherless 15

354 Women Served through the

Crisis Pregnancy Center

Residency
Raising up, equipping, and
empowering young leaders.

Because of your generosity we were able to

invest in a group of residents through our Bridge
Residency Program, who collectively spent a year
pouring into seven different ministries in our
church. Through this program, the residents were
able to advance in their leadership and use their
unique gifts to see the gospel move through our city,
state, nation, and world. By providing them an
opportunity to grow in their skills and leadership, we were
able to bring three residents onto our team full-time, and we
are watching the rest continue to make an impact in the next
season of their ministry in jobs around the country!

Social Media
Through social media, we are able to leverage technology to share the stories
of God’s people and see the gospel reach the ends of the earth.

5,010
Instagram Followers

8,450
Facebook Followers

618,800
YouTube Views

5,862
YouTube Subscribers

1,914,000
Minutes of Gospel
Content Watched

Bridge Worship
We prayed that Bridge Worship songs
would be sent like missionaries, going to
places we may never go and reaching
people we may never meet with a
God-breathed message of hope. When “We
Have The Name” was released, it did just
that. We were able to hear stories of it
impacting people like Alicia Brooke in
New York City, a nurse who was fighting on
the front lines of the Coronavirus outbreak
in the U.S. “I’m an RN out in NYC helping
to fight COVID. One of your members sent
me this song. Love it. Helps so much.”

“We have the Name to move our mountains,

We have the Name to calm our seas.
Whatever comes our way we’ll say,
We have the Name!”
We Have The Name by Bridge Worship

640,500 Bridge
Worship
Streams

Countries Playing
Bridge Worship 70+

186,500 Total Listeners

Financials
2020-2021
Budgeted Spending

10% 11%
Savings Admin

10%
Missions

35%
21%
Ministries

Facilities

13%
Weekend Services

Giving & Expenses

2019–2020
$3,955,557.07

$3,380,145.89

2020–2021
$4,275,646

$3,848,081.40

Actual General Giving Projected General Giving

Actual Expenses Budgeted Expenses