Our story

A church spoken of before it existed.

In 2005, Tony Bridley began saying he would pastor See His Face Ministries. The church was not birthed until 2010, five years later, in Fort Myers.
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Pastor Tony Bridley standing at the pulpit with his head bowed over an open Bible at See His Face Ministries

Before there was a church

It started with one man saying yes.

In July of 1994, Tony Bridley received Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior. Three years later, in 1997, he was called by God to preach.

Eight years after that came the part of the story people at this church still repeat. In 2005, at the leading of the Holy Spirit, he began speaking that he would pastor See His Face Ministries. There was no building, no congregation and no address. He had no idea yet how or where the church would be established. He said it anyway.

His educational background, as he puts it himself, is grounded predominantly in the teaching of the Holy Spirit and in life experience.

Pastor Tony Bridley seated with his hands folded, photographed against a dark background

The sequence

The dates, in order.

Five years carry this church's history. They are the only dates the church itself has published, and the order is the point.

  1. July 1994 · Tony Bridley

    He received Christ

    Tony Bridley received Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior.

  2. Tony Bridley

    Called to preach

    He was called by God to preach.

  3. Tony Bridley

    A church with no address

    At the leading of the Holy Spirit he began speaking that he would pastor See His Face Ministries, with no idea yet how or where the church would be established.

  4. See His Face Ministries

    The church was birthed

    See His Face Ministries was birthed, making Tony Bridley its Founder and Pastor.

    July 2010 · Melinda Bridley

    She gave her life to Christ

    Melinda gave her life to Christ and began a journey of seeking her God-given purpose.

  5. Tony & Melinda Bridley

    They married

    Tony married Melinda, who became a support in See His Face Ministries and serves alongside him in ministry.

Nothing has been added to this timeline. Where the church has not published a date, none is given.

Pastor Tony Bridley and Lady Melinda Bridley photographed together

2016

Then the story stopped being one person’s.

Tony Bridley married Melinda Bridley in 2016. She had given her life to Christ in July of 2010 and had been seeking her God-given purpose since.

She became a support in See His Face Ministries alongside her husband, serves as the church’s outreach coordinator, and is the founder of the R.E.A.L. Women’s Ministry. Between them they are a blended family, which, in her words, is a picture of what Christ asks of them both: to love everyone.

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Where it is now

Still the same call, on a street with a number.

See His Face Ministries meets at 3612 Evans Ave, Fort Myers, FL 33901. It is non-denominational, and it is still led by the man who said it would exist before it did.
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Members of See His Face Ministries gathered around the baptismal tank outside the church in Fort Myers

The next chapter

The story is still being written.

Everything above happened before you got here. What happens next includes you, come on a Sunday, or tell us you’re coming first. Either way works.

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