Past Bridges

Venues of Past Bridges Dinners

Central Presbyterian Church

Mount Hebron Baptist Church

Moffet Road Assembly of God

Trinity Lutheran Church

Spring Hill College

University of South Alabama

Bishop State Community College

University of Mobile

Dauphin Way United Methodist Church

Little Flower Catholic Church

Revelation Baptist Church

Mount Zion Baptist Church

First Baptist Church of Mobile

Stone Street Baptist Church

 

 

 

 

 

Bridges at Mount Zion Baptist Church

 

 


Bridges joins a national effort to increase understanding across racial and cultural lines.  It brings diverse groups of people together for a meal and facilitated table conversation about issues related to race relations.  There is no predetermined objective other than getting people together for serious dialogue.  Any possible action steps that may surface are optional.

As a faith based effort to bring people together for the common good churches are its primary motivating force.  During 2006 four Bridges events were held at local churches and two issues of concern surfaced consistently.  These were education and poverty.  In an effort to involve younger people the 2007 Dinner Dialogues were held at local colleges.  The topic of conversation for 2007 was the need for reform of the Alabama State Constitution.  In 2008-09 participants viewed and discussed the DVD Race the Power of Illusion.  During 2009-10 the issue of what can be done about the high school dropout rate will be tackled.                                                                                    

THE GOAL

 

  • To promote genuine and substantive interaction between citizens
  • To increase awareness and understanding of racial issues 
  • To share personal stories
  • To inspire action (individual and collective) on challenging and divisive issues.

 

Next Bridges

 

Fall of 2010

            Details Pending             

"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."  

                                    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.