Founders of Waco's Church Under The Bridge announce retirement

Jimmy and Janet Dorrell, the founders of Church Under the Bridge in Waco, announced they will retire from leadership of the ministry effective Easter Sunday, April 6. The couple started the church in September 1993 after hosting breakfast meetings with people experiencing homelessness near the Interstate 35 underpass. What began with six or seven unhoused men and women sitting in metal chairs beneath the overpass grew over 33 years — more than 1,700 Sundays — into a full congregation with small groups, a children’s Sunday School, a prison outreach, urban children’s ministries and global missions in Mexico City, India and Haiti. “After working at Mission Waco for all those years and now Church Under the Bridge, we are retiring as of Easter and we are looking forward to a new venture in our lives together,” Jimmy Dorrell said. Dorrell said the couple will remain members of the church and continue to attend periodically. #ChurchUnderTheBridge #WacoTexas #JimmyDorrell #JanetDorrell