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Our Story

Ron Young – Founder

Bridge To Sonship Ministries was born out of the personal journey of our founder, Ron Young. Ron’s path to sonship began on a transformative weekend in Michigan back in May 2015. Despite growing up in a large family, Ron had carried the weight of feeling like an orphan for most of his life, struggling to trust and feeling unloved. Even though he had accepted Christ at a young age, the true love of the Father and his identity as a beloved son remained elusive until that pivotal weekend in 2015.

Invited to an experiential men’s retreat by a friend, Ron encountered the Father’s love in a profound way for the first time. Empowered by this experience, Ron became a vital part of subsequent retreats, finding healing and forming deep bonds with other men who became his true brothers. However, upon relocating to Colorado in 2018, Ron felt the absence of that supportive community.

Driven by a deep longing to fill that void, Ron sought to bring the transformative experience he had in Michigan to others in Colorado. Inspired by a revelation on biblical sonship in 2021, Ron embraced God as a trustworthy and loving Father, understanding his own identity as a beloved son.

From this place of newfound identity and freedom, Ron’s vision expanded to encompass a desire to help others break free from the lies that hold them captive. In 2024, Bridge To Sonship Ministries was founded, rooted in the core principles that guided Ron’s own healing journey. Ron and his partners have infused the ministry with the message of sonship, challenging individuals to confront their fears and embrace their true identity as adopted sons of God.

With over a decade of experience in similar ministries, Ron has staffed numerous retreats, led small groups, and facilitated transformative processes, bringing a wealth of knowledge and passionto Bridge To Sonship Ministries.

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Torry Ebell – Co-Founder

Torry first encountered biblical sonship through his pastor’s teachings. He grasped it quickly — intellectually, at least. Embracing it in his heart was another matter.

Over time, Torry realized he had become emotionally blocked, bottling up anger and rarely experiencing sadness or joy. He tried counseling but made little progress. Then his father passed away, and what he’d been avoiding became impossible to ignore — he knew something was wrong, but didn’t know how to fix it.

That’s when Ron invited him — for what felt like the hundredth time — to a men’s retreat in Michigan. This time, Torry said yes. He went expecting a breakthrough and wasn’t disappointed. With the help of those men, he cracked the shell around his emotions, grieved his father’s passing, and began uncovering the buried traumas that had quietly driven him to build those walls in the first place.

On the drive home, Ron shared his vision of bringing that same experience to Colorado — combining deep emotional work with the truths of biblical sonship. Torry saw the potential immediately and joined him in building what would become Bridge To Sonship Ministries.

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Brian Rohrer – Leadership Team

Brian has over 4 decades of experience in various forms of ministry.  He has served as an ordained minister on church staffs, he has also served on staff at a local non-profit ministry, and additionally he has served as a volunteer leader/teacher for children’s and youth ministries.  

Brian is a gifted communicator that has been blessed to speak to groups both large and small at Fort Carson army base, local high schools and middle schools and various church groups across the country.  One eye-opening experience that has ignited his passion for ministering to men was as an attendee at a Wild At Heart men’s retreat led by author, John Eldredge.  

The following year, he was blessed to be invited back to help lead a group of men through the same experience.  Brian is excited to see where God will lead the ministry of Bridge to Sonship and is thrilled to be part of it.

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Bill Cowell – Leadership Team

Having served in ministry for over 40 years, Bill has spent more than two decades as a church-planting pastor.  He worked for a season with the Missouri Southern Baptist Executive Board, helping assess and train church planters, facilitating the launch of more than 27 new churches in the Saint Louis area.

Bill has specifically been involved with serving men from all arenas of life for the past 18 years.  In 2017, he began serving as a missionary pastor with a nationwide experiential men’s ministry, working with both participants and leadership.  For the last 7 years, he has led a weekly confidential men’s group in the Saint Louis area; he was also instrumental in developing an experiential couple’s weekend focused on guiding both men and women into a deeper understanding of Biblical oneness through both teaching and experience.

It is evident that Bill is passionate about seeing faith move from the head to the heart, as he believes that true life in Jesus begins there. He recently relocated to Colorado Springs, where he continues to invest in people, relationships, and spiritual growth.

Our Mission

Bridge to Sonship equips men to break free from orphan thinking and embrace their true identity as adopted sons of God.

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We believe that sonship is a core aspect of the Christian faith, offering believers a profound sense of identity, security, and purpose.

Sonship as Adoption: We are adopted into God’s family through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ.  (Ephesians 1:4-6)

Sonship as Inheritance: As God’s children, we are heirs of His eternal kingdom and all its blessings.  (Romans 8:14-17)

Sonship as Transformation: The Holy Spirit empowers us to live as sons and daughters of God, conforming us to the image of Christ.  (Romans 8:29-30).

Sonship as Community: We are united with other believers in the global family of God, sharing in the love, joy, and purpose of our heavenly Father.  (Galatians 3:26-28)

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Grounded in our commitment to the inspired, infallible, and final authoritative Word of God as revealed in Scripture, we join with the Christian Church, which has affirmed this faith for over 1,700 years across the globe, in professing the beliefs articulated in the NICENE CREED.

We believe in one God,
the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
begotten from the Father before all ages,
God from God,
Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made;
of the same essence as the Father.
Through him, all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven;
he became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary,
and was made human.
He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered and was buried.
The third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures.
He ascended to heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again with glory
to judge the living and the dead.
His kingdom will never end.
And we believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, the giver of life.
He proceeds from the Father and the Son,
and with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified.
He spoke through the prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church.
We affirm one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look forward to the resurrection of the dead,
and to life in the world to come. Amen.

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