We're Almost There!

2026| August

A VISION SHARED

Greetings!

Each year in our August e-news, we like to fill you in on how the year is going so far and what your partnership has helped us to achieve. After our Spring season of projects, we are happy to report the following goals met in the first half of 2026:

Program activity in 102 facilities, including locations in 8 other states, plus Mexico and Uganda
More than 38,000 hours contributed by Volunteers with an in-kind value of over $1,400,000
3,446 BTL Graduates from 109 completed projects, bringing us to a grand total of 96,850 Graduates since inception!

By the end of the 2026 Fall season, we will reach the historic milestone of 100,000 Graduates since Bridges To Life began 28 years ago!

We couldn't have reached this moment without you, our thousands of generous supporters and volunteers. Your encouragement, prayers, donations, hours of service, and belief in the power of second chances have helped make this milestone possible!

With gratitude,

John Sage, Founder/CEO

Jim Buffington, COO

A PROPHECY FULFILLED

Back in the year 2000, with only a few hundred program graduates, Bridges To Life was just getting started. Even so, a Senior Warden in one of the first Texas prisons to host BTL sent John Sage a letter with these prophetic words:

"I have been employed with the Texas prison system for going on 30 years and have seen a lot of programs offered to the inmates to help with rehabilitation efforts. Without a doubt, the Bridges To Life program has made an impact on the participants more so than any other with which I have been associated. It touched the inmates in a way that I have not seen before.

It is my hope, both for inmates and potential victims, that this program can be expanded to include many more of 'the men in white'.

Good luck, John, and may God continue to bless your Bridges To Life program."