About Us
BridgeWorks
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 the Rev. Rebekah Simon-Peter. Rebekah is an ordained Elder in the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Rebekah Simon-Peter
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.
Raised
in an interfaith home, her interactions with the Jewish community have
interested her in the Jewish roots of Christianity. She is passionate about turning barriers into bridges of understanding.
Before becoming Director of BridgeWorks, Rebekah served local churches for more than a decade in the Rocky Mountain west. She makes her home in the Continental Divide Basin of Wyoming where she lives with her husband Jerry Gonzales.
Contact Rebekah.
Doug Wasinger
The Rev. Doug Wasinger is a BridgeWorks Associate and a BridgeWorks Certified DiSC Trainer.
Prior to entering the ordained ministry, Doug excelled in business working in both the credit and collections field and the food service industry. He managed franchise restaurants in Fort Collins CO and Wheatland WY and successfully turned around two troubled stores.
In like manner, Doug also turns small churches around, empowering them through the Mutual/Shared Ministry model.
In 1999, Doug
discerned a calling to the priesthood. In 2000 he got married, loaded up his
car and headed to Austin, Texas for three years with his wife to attend seminary. In 2003 they returned to Wyoming where they now with their three lovely daughters. Based in Rawlins, he currently works with five other churches throughout Carbon
County (an area of the size of Connecticut) as a Ministry Developer. Additionally, he has facilitated on-line
courses hosted by Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Doug sees joining BridgeWorks as a natural fit with his current work. “Building bridges of understanding compliments nicely
my belief that formation leads to transformation.” He is excited about
the possibilities of working with different groups of people both inside the
Episcopal Church and beyond and sees his relationship with BridgeWorks
as unlimited.
Contact Doug.