Our History

We started with a dream.

In 1989, three college roommates at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee dreamed about someday working together to help people in some of the impoverished areas in rural Copán, Honduras. In 2011, those dreams became a reality when the three former roommates and their spouses met together and came up with the vision for Bridges: a school that uses Christian education for local change.


The work began when four young girls from villages in the Copán region moved into a small house in Agua Caliente to have the opportunity to get an education that was not available in the villages where they lived. Today, we are proudly spread across two campuses with nearly 100 students. The vision is continuing to be fulfilled and the rest of the story is still being written. . . 


  • Our first four students with missionary visitors.

    Our first four students with American missionaries.

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    First year in the Agua Caliente Campus.

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    First year in the Finca el Cisne campus.

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    Our beginning promotions.

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    Bridges opens in Agua Caliente.

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    Our first four students.

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    Esther with one of our teachers and students.

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    Bridges is growing to two campuses.

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    The students in the first year in Finca el Cisne.

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    First year staff and students.

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    Beginnings in Finca el Cisne. 

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    The house where our first students lived in Agua Caliente.

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