Walking Witness International
Being the hands and feet of Jesus Christ in remote, underserved communities—proclaiming the Gospel while meeting urgent physical and economic needs.
Born Out of a Burden to Walk Where Few Go
In 2010, John Eagles of Hendersonville, Tennessee, stood at the Birchenough Bridge in Zimbabwe with David Bati and Philip Mpindu. The bridge joins Chipinge and Buhera. The conversation on it was about the body of Christ: one church rich where another is thin, and the other way around.
They named the work Bridges of Glory. The plan was practical. Use what one congregation has to meet what another lacks, and let churches strengthen each other instead of working alone.
John and Jennifer Eagles carried that into unsheltered communities at home and into Zimbabwe, Uganda, Haiti, and Mexico. The vision then narrowed onto something concrete: find a village pastor and help plant a shelter church in a place that does not yet have one, so the church can grow where people already live.
BRIDGES OF GLORY
A partnership formed to move resources toward real need inside the church, across towns and across oceans.
A SHELTER, THEN A PEOPLE
A permanent place of worship, planted with a local pastor in a community that has been meeting without one.
WALKING WITNESS
The mandate widened: teach people to win souls and make disciples in ordinary life. It launched in the US and spread across Africa and around the world—under the charge of Mark 16:15.