MARY ANN BRIDGWATER
President and Founder
Mary Ann Bridgwater, Founder and President of Pray the Word Ministries, is very committed to expanding and enhancing prayer activity in her community, our nation, and throughout the world. A frequent speaker and prayer consultant, her passion is leading others to experience a prayer life where they walk in the awareness of the presence of a Holy God.
She and her family served as members of Houston’s First Baptist Church for 40 years. She and her husband are currently members at Crosspoint Church in Bellaire.
During that time at Houston’s First, she served as a weekly bible study teacher and the Prayer Chair of the HFBC Missions Council. She also began the Sanctuary Consecration Ministry, Praying During the Worship Services Ministry, and the Staff Intercessory Prayer Ministry; as well as mobilized prayer for the annual church-wide outreach project, Pastor Sabbatical Ministry, various Women’s Ministry Events and to Houston’s refugees from throughout the world.
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Be it speaking, facilitating, and/or organizing, Mary Ann has led cross-denominational citywide prayer for spiritual awakening and mobilized prayer gatherings throughout the fifty states. In 2013, Mary Ann served as the Prayer Coordinator for the city-wide Loving Houston Project, and for both the Southern Baptist Convention’s Pastor’s Conference and the SBC Annual Meeting. She also provided prayer covering for Pastor Prayer Summits in Houston, and taught and mobilized prayer for Pastor Conferences and gatherings in Israel, India, Philippines, Ukraine, Russia, and Romania.
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For more than 25 years she has partnered with various ministries to provide prayer covering, including 17 years for Living Proof Ministries and 12 years for KSBJ, Houston’s leading Christian radio station and several years for Inspire Women. In addition, Mary Ann is recognized as a member of the National Prayer Committee.
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Her writings include prayer guides for pastors, ministers, their spouses, salvation, healing and wellness, marriages, as well as a variety of other topics. Some of her writings are: Being Still and Knowing God (a seven-part devotional), Consecration Prayer Journal, Personal Consecration Cards, Building a House of Prayer (a 10-week Bible Study), Praying for Community Transformation, and a 52-week devotional entitled Prayers for the Faithful.
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Mary Ann has been happily married to her husband, Roger since 1975 and they have enjoyed serving together on many short-term international mission trips. They have two daughters and two sons-in-law, all in love with the Lord. They also have two grandsons, who took their first international mission trip with their parents at the ages of 3 and 5, and a very precious granddaughter whose brother was born in 2018.
Cody Nicholson
PTW Board Chairman
General Partner at Trinities Community Group
Cody Nicholson has nearly a decade of fund management experience in the real estate sector. His focus has been private equity and multifamily investments in the CRE space where he co-managed a $160+ Million Fund.
Previously, Cody was a Managing Director at Trinity Communities Group, based in Houston, investing the firm’s capital into a wide range of products such as mini storage, manufactured housing, land and office. Prior to Trinity, Cody was Managing Director with CNE Acquisitions, where he worked with high net worth individuals with a focus on real estate development.
Cody began his career as an R&D engineer at General Plastics and Composites, completing two patents for Halliburton. He received his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University and earned his M.B.A. from Rice University with a focus in finance.
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