Bridging Faiths and Building Hope – Building Bridges Together™ Second Quarter 2025 Update

Dear Friends,

Building Bridges Together™ (BBT) has continued to pursue trust and relationships among Christians, Jews and Muslims during second quarter 2025.  While we grieve and watch with horror shocking examples of inhumanity around the globe, we believe that ongoing work to create alliances and understanding across faiths will spark hope and inspire peace building. Here are some of our recent activities and achievements:

·       BBT was accepted by the Association of Professional Christian Educators (APCE) to offer a workshop in January 2026 at the APCE Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This year’s theme is “Bridging the Gap: Love God, Love Self, Love Neighbors!” We are looking forward to providing an experiential workshop showcasing some of our interfaith engagement techniques and sharing our work!

·       Two Interfaith Bridges™ programs are starting soon, one in the Bay Area and one in southern California! We continue to work with faith communities considering a bi-faith or tri-faith programs in other locations.

·       We have been working with our intern, Jessica Gapfizi, a rising senior and Statistical and Data Science major at the College of Wooster, to develop market research allowing us to reach faith communities across the United States. Our photo shows us with Jessica at the College of Wooster!

·       We have identified several state universities for outreach about our Interfaith Bridges™ – University Edition program.

We hope that you are finding ways to stay healthy. Here are five principles of pluralism, courtesy of Eboo Patel, Founder and President of Interfaith America, which inspire us:

·       Diversity is a treasure.

·       Identity is a source of pride.

·       Cooperation is better than division.

·       Faith is a bridge.

·       Everybody’s a contributor.

We will be undertaking more outreach this year to introduce both faith communities and colleges and universities to our interfaith dialogue programs.  You can help us.  We need ongoing funding from donors like you to enable us to spread the word about Interfaith Bridges. If you would like to support our ongoing work, you can make a donation at our website, or you can send a check made payable to Building Bridges Together at 405 El Camino Real, #433, Menlo Park, CA 94025. Thank you for your ongoing support in this important work.

Be careful out there and stay hopeful!

Diane and Bob Frankle, Co-Founders, Building Bridges Together