Every Kid Needs One

At The Bridge we believe that every kid needs a cheering section.  

I remember having one. Like the time in high school when my older brother came home from college to watch me wrestle. It was a close match, back and forth, but the home crowd helped me win. 

“I remember yelling like a maniac the whole match,” my brother reported in a recent conversation. “It was really close right up til you pinned him.”  

My brother remembers. I remember too. It still gives me goosebumps forty years later. 

That’s what we want to do for kids who are wrestling with much more challenging opponents.  

Kids like David, who sleeps on the couch of a family friend, along with his brothers and sisters, because they are between houses, waiting for his mom to settle a dispute with the government over a housing voucher.  

Kids like Nancy, who lost her Mom, her biggest fan, to cancer when she was 8 years old.  

Kids like Melinda, who hears nothing but negativity at home. Melinda’s mom was abused as a child and, well, hurt people hurt people.  

Every kids needs a cheering section. Especially the underdogs.