Jon – Why do I work at The Bridge? Why not!
I have been working with homelessness and addiction for nearly 16 yrs. It started in Dorset at a YMCA and through various settings including hostels, street work, nights shelters and a community addictions team I eventually joined The Bridge 9 yrs ago. Throughout these 9 years I have had the privilege of working with many amazing people, whose hearts have been to see the broken in our society restored. I have also met many people who have lost their hope that life can be better than they have known before. Seeing them take steps of success in their recovery, become restored in themselves and restored with society is an amazing privilege to watch and brings joy to the heart.
Its not all rosy; there are those who just cant grasp any hope for change, and those that get so far and then fall away. There are also those that despite some success, give up altogether and return to lives of addiction and destruction, sometimes resulting in an early loss of life.
However, whereas this brings sadness it does not make me want to give up. Rather it makes me more determined to do what I do. For every persons life that is changed because of the work of The Bridge, its one less lost.
Why would I want to give my time to anything else?
