Dan has been serving with the Bridge Ministry since December 2010 and is an important part of the weekly operations of the Bridge Ministry. As a young man Dan became a drug addict and dealer, and was frequently robbed by corrupt law officers. When he was only 18, he opened fire, shooting an officer and permanently paralyzing him. Dan was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, and after seven years began receiving letters from the wife of the officer he had shot. The officer requested to meet Dan and Dan refused him causing the officer to obtain a court order forcing Dan to see him. As Dan waited, the door open and the officer’s two children ran in wrapping their arms around the man they called “Uncle Dan”. The officer and his wife had raised their family to love Dan although he almost took the officer’s life eight years earlier. That day, the cop turned pastor and his family sat down and shared the love of Jesus with Dan. Not long after the meeting, the cop turned himself in for his previous crimes and served two and a half years in prison. The cop and his family worked tirelessly to see Dan freed, and after almost fifteen years, at the request of the cop, Dan was released. Shortly after getting out of prison, Dan went into full time ministry and has spent the last 16 years in Arizona reaching out to those who have been caught up in the lifestyle that God so miraculously delivered him from. In the last year Dan felt the call to move to Nashville and now serves with The Bridge Ministry. Dan’s testimony is just one of the countless others that reminds us of God’s unfailing love. There is no situation so far gone or sin too great that God cannot turn it around for His glory.
