About Us
BridgeWorks offers top-notch, innovative lifelong learning experiences. Our interactive events are grounded in authentic spirituality and intellectual integrity.
Open to people of different faith commitments, and diverse backgrounds, our events build community while transforming perspectives.
Organized in 2007, BridgeWorks is an extension ministry of the United Methodist Church that is directed by t
he Rev. Rebekah Simon-Peter. Rebekah is an ordained Elder in the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Born and raised a Reform Jew, she later became a member of the Orthodox Jewish community. A surprise vision of Jesus resulted in her spiritual journey into Christian discipleship. Her diverse background makes her uniquely qualified to help Christians explore the Jewish roots of their faith.
The author of Green Church: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rejoice! and Seven Simple Steps to Green Your Church, Rebekah earned a B.S. in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont and worked on the State of Vermont’s water quality and acid rain studies. As a trained and experienced naturalist and scientist, she bridges the gap between faith and action in the care of Creation. BridgeWorks brings together her various passions and life-experiences: a rich and exciting spiritual journey, science and faith, a commitment to wholeness, and a connection to various cultures and ethnicities.
She is passionate about turning barriers into bridges of understanding and inventing the possibility of reconciliation between peoples.
Before becoming Director of BridgeWorks, she served local churches for more than a decade in the Rocky Mountatin west. She makes her home in the Continental Divide Basin of Wyoming where she lives with her husband Jerry Gonzales.