Our Leadership & Staff

PASTOR OF MISSION & MERCY

Pastor Angelo Juliani is the founding pastor of Bridge Community Church and the director of Comfort for Africa. He has pastored for more than thirty years in a variety of cross-cultural settings and has helped to plant churches in Eswatini and South Africa and organized relief efforts there including mobile health clinics, relief goods, clean water, orphan care, deaf ministry, and a school building project. He also leads Liberti Global, the international mission arm of the Liberti Communion of churches. He and his wife Barbara Miller Juliani have been married forty-three years. She is an author, Bible teacher, and the Vice President at New Growth Press, a Christian publisher. Together they have four children, two daughters-in-law, a son-in-law, and most importantly they are Pop and Nana to twelve (and counting?).

LEAD PASTOR

Josh Macha serves as lead pastor at Bridge Community Church. He and his wife Anne were part of the Bridge’s launch team in 2006. He was called as a pastor at Bridge in 2019 after nine years teaching middle school English and Special Education in Philadelphia public, charter and private schools. He holds a BA in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.Ed in Special Education from Arcadia University and a Master of Divinity from Missio Seminary. Josh grew up as a missionary kid in Dublin, Ireland and spent his teenage years in Abington. Josh and Anne and their two children, Lucia and Micah, have lived in the Germantown section of Philadelphia since 2009.

DIRECTOR OF CONNECTIONS & EQUIPPING

Allie Stryd is a retired nurse and homeschooler turned part time director of churchy gatherings. She and her husband Todd have been a part of Bridge since its inception back in 2006 and they have served as small group leaders, youth leaders, and coffee makers. While Allie has her BSN, she states that her most significant education began (and continues) when she dipped her toes into the waters of the humanities as a homeschool mom. She and Todd are not native Philadelphians, but much like the Kingdom of God, they’ve been adopted into the Philly surrounding area for almost thirty years and consider it home. They have three kids and a dog named Frank and reside in Fort Washington.

ADMINISTRATOR & SUNDAY SCHOOL COORDINATOR

Cheryl Sumitra is our part-time Church and Sunday School administrator. She has worked in this role at Bridge since February 2014. Cheryl is a mom of four and a career social worker. She spent 12+ years working in the child welfare system in Philadelphia, ending her career working for a non-profit doing foster care and adoption work. Cheryl has a heart to serve the church and a love of administrative (behind the scenes) work. Cheryl also works with Cradle of Hope, another of Bridge Community Church's partner ministries.