Apostle Bruce Gunkle and his wife Sherry Gunkle founded the City of Refuge in San Antonio, Texas in 1990. Bruce, a gifted revelatory Teacher, understood the power and provision of covenant as a place of commitment, involvement, and preferring one another, a place where we are literally dead to ourselves, our desires, and our way so that we can live for the kingdom of God.  His understanding of covenant, and his heart for the brokenhearted and spiritually dispossessed, produced an optimistic vision of hope of a place where those in need could come for healing and restoration and be built up as a kingdom people. Thus, the vision of the City of Refuge was born.

“Building kingdom people who will strengthen families, impact their city and change the world.”

Apostle Gunkle was taken to his city of refuge on December 7, 2021, but his vision and ministry live on in everything we do at the City of Refuge as we raise and equip a mobilized army of gift-oriented people with an evangelistic heart and raise and equip spiritual fathers and mothers to apostolically go forth and disciple, evangelize, prophesy, heal, and deliver those in need for the Lord Jesus Christ and His kingdom.