BRIGITTE BOWMAN

EVENT COORDINATOR 

HI, MY NAME IS BRIGITTE ! I GREW UP IN COLUMBUS, OH AS A CRADLE CATHOLIC GOING TO ST. MARY MAGDALENE AND OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL AND BISHOP READY FOR HIGH SCHOOL. FOR MOST OF MY LIFE I LIVED THE “ONE FOOT IN, ONE FOOT OUT” FAITH LIFE AND IT WASN’T UNTIL MY JUNIOR YEAR THAT MY LIFE BEGAN TO CHANGE.

 I WENT TO AN ENCOUNTER CONFERENCE IN ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN WHERE  I ENCOUNTERED THE LOVE OF CHRIST IN A POWERFUL WAY.  IT CHANGED THE TRAJECTORY OF MY LIFE FOREVER! I FELT COMPELLED TO GIVE MY LIFE ENTIRELY TO CHRIST AND START PURSUING LIFE ON MISSION! I BEGAN SERVING AT DAMASCUS SOON AFTER I GRADUATED. I HAVE LOVED BEING A MISSIONARY SINCE. I HAVE ALWAYS FELT A CALL IN MY LIFE TO SERVE THE POOR AND “THE LEAST OF THESE” SO IT WAS AN EASY YES TO BEGIN SERVING WITH URBAN ENCOUNTER. SINCE BEGINNING WORK AT URBAN ENCOUNTER I HAVE SEEN GOD MOVE IN THE MIRACULOUS IN WAYS! I HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE ! I SEE ST. FRANCIS’S PRAYER COME ALIVE 

IN OUR BACKYARD,

“…WHERE THERE IS HATRED, LET ME SOW LOVE;
 WHERE THERE IS INJURY, PARDON; 
WHERE THERE IS DOUBT, FAITH;
 WHERE THERE IS DESPAIR, HOPE;
 WHERE THERE IS DARKNESS, LIGHT;
 WHERE THERE IS SADNESS, JOY.”

THANK YOU GOD!