Peter is the senior leader of BridgeWay Church in Denver, Colorado.  Peter and Gwen together serve as mom and dad in the house at BridgeWay.  Peter is a gifted visionary leader, respected bridge builder, apostolic leader, pastor, and revelatory teacher. He has strong gifts in both the Word and Spirit traditions, enabling him to walk in both realms with ease. He practices a signs and wonders ministry and encourages the manifest Presence of God and the Kingdom realities in all aspects of church life.  BridgeWay Church serves as a regional apostolic resource center and actively works with other ministries and marketplace partners to bring revival and community transformation to Colorado.

Peter’s prior church background transcended several streams. He was raised in the Episcopal church, and became a born-again Christian at a Baptist church while at school at MIT in Cambridge, MA. He later served in lay ministry for 8 years at South Evangelical Presbyterian Church before joining the Vineyard Movement in 1984 after being baptized in the Spirit. He served many lay and official leadership roles in the Vineyard for 20 years, including planting Vineyard Denver Southeast, which has now become BridgeWay Church. While working part-time in the marketplace, Peter pursued theological training at Denver Seminary, graduating cum laud in 1995 with a Master’s Degree in Divinity.

Prior to planting BridgeWay, Peter had a 15-year banking career in commercial lending and treasury management sales, where he served as a conference speaker, sales manager, and manager of the Norwest Bank of Denver Treasury Management Division as well as Marketing Manager for Norwest Bank Minnesota. This business vocational background has given Peter a great desire to see people in the marketplace reached for Christ.

A Denver native, Peter and his wife, Gwen, married in 1984. They have four amazing children, two of whom serve in ministry.

Marlene Allen, Bridgeway’s Children’s Pastor, or Momma Marlene, as she is affectionately called by thousands of young people, is a pastor, teacher, networker, administrator, mentor,and author. She has been leading children in supernatural encounters for over 30 years and is gifted at making God’s Word come alive in young lives. Seeing the light in their eyes when they finally ‘get it’ is the goal of many of her projects. Marlene has served as a classroom teacher, vice-principal and children’s pastor here in the United States. During her recent 16 years as a missionary in Thailand she founded a children’s home for abandoned and orphaned children, introduced the Thai churches of Northern Thailand to revival themes, as well as mentored hundreds of future missionary leaders

Marlene holds a Business degree from McNeese State University in Louisiana and is a graduate of Global Legacy Leadership Program. She is currently enjoying living in the same city as her four incredible children for the first time in their lives.

Christy Joy arrived in Denver Colorado as a single mom with her twin girls in 2011 with a promise from God that He was going to make ALL THINGS NEW for them. With a heart of worship, she brings songs of hope to the city with Confluence Ministries and has been working in church ministry since 2004 in almost every capacity of Administrative work. Being from Knoxville, Tennesse, her heart also lies in Southern Hospitality and making people feel welcomed and valued. Christy Joy came on staff at Bridgeway in November of 2017 as an Administrative Assistant and Event Planner.