In the past when couples were lonely and hurting in their marriage, they kept silent or eventually gave up on their marriage.  There were few places to go that would embrace their needs in love and with encouragement to facilitate healing.

Seeds of Bridge To Life Ministries were planted in 1981 when Don and Becky Smith (co-founders of Bridge To Life) were approached by a couple in the throes of divorce.  The couple had exchanged vows with the hope and dreams of every young couple, to “live happily ever after.”  Yet with years of unresolved wounds that led to increasing hurts in their marriage, they found themselves unhappy and hopeless in their marriage.

Although the couple’s marriage proceeded to a legal termination, Don and Becky continued to work with each of the partners.  Their untiring efforts continued for months and led to a deep compassion and understanding of the couple’s hurts and root problems.  God worked deeply in the couple’s lives to build what had never been experienced…a commitment to love and be loved, even in difficult moments.  Eventually, the couple remarried and unified their three children to restore a loving home.

This experience of seeing God’s restorative power in this first couple’s marriage and many that followed prompted Don and Becky Smith to establish Bridge To Life Ministries in 1983.  Since it’s inception, Bridge To Life has offered counseling, encouragement and mentoring for couples and marriage seminars and retreats

The ministry has three fundamental components:  The Heart & Soul of a Real Marriage course, a Biblically based marriage counseling practice, and The Heart & Soul of Loving Well classes. All these are designed to help spouses work through specific wounds that affect their marriage.

Bridge To Life offers classes and training to churches and ministries around the country as well as partner with organizations around the world who want to implement our marriage ministry tools for the people they serve.