Organizations Filed Purposes:
To be a Christ-centered community development and youth discipleship organization serving the West Side of Grand Rapids, building a bridge between the streets and the church.
Bridge Street Ministries (Bridge Street House of Prayer), is a Christian community development organization with an emphasis on holistic youth development. Our Pavilion coffee shop offers free coffee and bagels to 30-40 under-resourced neighbors every day. The coffee shop is open from noon-5 pm, Monday - Friday. Our Resurgence after-school program is an extracurricular program that offers learning labs to local students 4 days per week, with approximately 12-15 students participating in each lab. Our Immersion program is a summer mission trip opportunity for local church youth groups and high school programs. In 2019 we hosted 65 students and leaders. Our Bridge Street Mission School is an 8-month immersive gap-year program. During the 2019-2020 program year, we had 7 students enrolled. We have had 64 students complete the program.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Ryan Waalkes | Executive Director | 50 | $50,001 |
| Susie Renzema | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
| Mark Vantongeren | Treasurer | 2 | $0 |
| John Booy | Vice Chair | 1 | $0 |
| Steve Vanpoolen | Chairman | 2 | $0 |
| Jeff Eckart | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jeff Jackson | Director | 1 | $0 |
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public 990 form dataset) from:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202041209349300219_public.xml