Lebanon 2026
Strengthening Leaders, Strengthening Communities
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President’s Letter
Twenty Years of Relationships
Why Lebanon?
Lebanon has long been a place where religious traditions, cultures, and histories meet. It is also a nation whose people have endured years of economic hardship, political instability, displacement, and conflict. Yet beyond the headlines are educators, scholars, religious leaders, scientists, and community leaders who continue serving others with remarkable dedication.
For more than two decades, Abraham’s Bridge has cultivated friendships and professional relationships throughout Lebanon and the wider Middle East. Those relationships have led to collaboration with universities, churches, nonprofit organizations, and civic leaders committed to strengthening their communities through education, dialogue, and service.
The Lebanon Project 2026–2029 builds upon those relationships. It begins with the people already investing their lives in Lebanon’s future, seeking to encourage and strengthen their work through friendship, learning, and partnership.
Why We Return to Lebanon
Why We Return to LebanonThere are places to which we return because the work is unfinished. There are others to which we return because relationships have made leaving them behind impossible. Lebanon is both. For many years, the relationships that became Abraham’s...
Lebanon 2026-2029 President’s Letter
Following seventeen days in Lebanon, Kurt Richardson reflects on the educators, scholars, religious leaders, and civil society figures sustaining their communities through extraordinary strain, and introduces the Lebanon Project 2026–2029.
The Lebanon Project
2026-2029
The Lebanon Project 2026–2029 is built around two complementary initiatives. One seeks to tell the stories of extraordinary leaders already serving Lebanon. The other seeks to strengthen those leaders so their work can continue to grow and flourish.
The Documentary Project
The documentary project introduces audiences to educators, scholars, religious leaders, scientists, and community leaders whose work often goes unseen outside Lebanon. Through interviews and personal stories, the project seeks to illuminate the resilience, generosity, and leadership that continue to sustain Lebanese society.
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Leadership Fellowship
The Abraham’s Bridge Lebanon Leadership Fellowship seeks to provide research, administrative, and program support to thirty outstanding leaders whose work strengthens universities, schools, religious communities, nonprofit organizations, and civic life. Rather than creating new institutions, the fellowship invests in the people already serving them.
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Leaders Featured in the Lebanon Project
Martin Accad
President, Middle East School of Theology
Helping form a new generation of Christian leaders throughout the Middle East.
Richard Maroun
Vice President for Research, Saint Joseph University
Preserving scientific excellence and innovation during a time of national crisis.
Mohammad Sammak
Secretary General, Christian–Muslim Committee for Dialogue
Advocating for Christian–Muslim cooperation and national solidarity throughout Lebanon.
Riad Kassis
International Director, Langham Partnership
Advancing biblical scholarship and leadership formation for churches and institutions around the world.
Ibrahim Rida
Educator, Nabatiyeh
Serving children, including disabled and displaced students, despite the devastation affecting southern Lebanon.
The Lebanon Project 2026–2029 is only beginning. As relationships deepen and new partnerships emerge, this page will continue to document the people, initiatives, and stories shaping the project. We invite you to follow its progress and support this work as it continues to grow.
How You Can Get Involved
These leaders do not need rescuing. They need partners.
Every friendship, conversation, and partnership begins with people who choose to participate. Whether you pray for the leaders featured on this page, introduce us to new partners, collaborate through your institution, volunteer your expertise, or support this work financially, your involvement helps strengthen relationships that endure across cultures and traditions.
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