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The school year begins
and with it our biggest year of
Religious Diversity Journeys
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| Meredith explaining a service project to RDJ participants |
by Meredith Skowronski, IFLC administrator, and RDJ Program Director
Although it's been six years since I anxiously hung my name-plate outside of my classroom door and waited with anticipation for the start of the school year, as the summer winds down again I still feel the pull. The soft undertow tugging my thoughts towards the ocean of students who will soon enter my life: "Will my lessons interest them?", "Will my classroom be a safe haven for them to ask questions?" "Will they understand one another and come together as a group to share in the learning experience?", "In the short amount of time that I am with them, how can I help them to become more successful thinkers and teach them how to be successful- not just in the classroom, but in life?"
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IFLC Annual Awards Dinner
October 14, 2015
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Join us as we gather to honor some of our community's exceptional activists, raise funds for our community outreach, religious literacy and conciliation efforts, and enjoy an evening with our interfaith friends.
IFLC annual dinner
October 14th
Shriners Silver Garden in Southfield.
Pre-dinner interfaith reception 5:30 pm
Dinner program 6:30 pm.
Click here to read about this year's nominees
Click here to register for tickets, tables or to become a sponsor
Click here to purchase an ad in the dinner program
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OUR CHILDREN OUR FUTURE
September 9, 6:30 pm
Faith Communities Coalition on Foster Care
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Wednesday, September 9 at 6:30 pm for reception and 7:00 pm at The Kirk in the Hills to hear inspirational stories and learn how you can help our children in foster care. Mr. Hosner, Executive Director of Judson Center will be hosting a panel of foster children and their foster parents and Pastor Zo will be speaking on how you can support foster care children and parents.
Motivational Speaker: Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, Woodside Church Pontiac & The Pontiac Dream Center
A Panel of Foster Care Youth and Parents to share their experiences hosted by: Cameron Hosner,
Executive Director of Judson Center
The Kirk in the Hills, 1340 West Long Lake Road, Bloomfield Hills
The Faith Communities Coalition on Foster Care is a grass roots collaboration that provides a catalyst to educate and motivate congregations to engage in at least one project/program that will support our children in foster care or moving out on their own.
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Rescue in the Phillipines
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Green & Grow your Congregation
October 9
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Join congregations from across Michigan at the Michigan Interfaith Power & Light's 10th annual sustainability conference, Green & Grow Your Congregation, to be held October 9 at Peoples Church in East Lansing.
- Choose from 15 great workshops!
- Hear 3 wonderful keynote speakers!
- Network with faith leaders and sustainability experts from across Michigan!
- Automatically enter our raffle and get the chance to win over $2,000 in prizes!
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Question of the Week
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Click here to find out
The IFLC would like to help foster our understanding of one another by using our newsletter as a forum for you to ask these important questions. We want to share your questions anonymously within the framework of our newsletter where religious leaders from these diverse faith communities will provide answers to them. We welcome the opportunity to learn together!
Picture:Basher Eyre [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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IFLC Your Link to Religious Literacy
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Interfaith News and Events
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Are there topics that you would like to learn more about within our newsletter? Questions that you would like answered? As our dedicated weekly readers, we invite you to share with us!.
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Don't Miss These Upcoming InterFaith Events |
September Events
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Our Children Our Future
Faith Communities Coalition on Foster Care
The Kirk in the Hills
1340 West Long Lake Road Bloomfield Hills
Wednesday, September 9, 6:30 pm
World Day of Prayer service
Detroit Unity Temple
Second Blvd in Detroit, near Palmer Park
Thursday, Sept. 10, 7 pm
Sustainability Summit in Detroit
Candlelight vigil at Grand Circus Park
Thursday, Sept. 10
Speakers at Marygrove College
September 11 - 13
Arab-American Women: Myths and Reality
St. John Fisher Chapel
3665 E Walton Blvd, Auburn Hills
Wednesday, September 16, 7 - 9 pm
Click for more info
An Ecumenical and Interfaith Golf Outing
Presented by ETS and the Alumni Association
Rackham Golf Course
10100 W. 10 Mile Road, Huntington Woods
Friday, September 18, 2015
Innovation, Entrepreneurship & the Economy in the US, China & India
Bharatiya Temple
6850 N Adams Rd, Troy
Sunday, September 20, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
International Day of Peace Prayer
St Bonaventure Chapel
1780 Mt Elliott, Detroit
Monday, Sept 21, 7 PM
Spirituality As a Social Determinant of Health
The 2015 Interfaith Health & Hope Coalition Prayer Event
Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church
2080 W. Grand Boulevard, Detroit
Thursday, September 24, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Metropolitan Christian Council
16th Annual Herald Awards Banquet
MRCC Banquet & Convention Center
23401 Mound Road, Warren,
Thursday, September 24, 5:30pm
Metropolitan Christian Council
2015 Herald Awards Banquet.
MRCC Banquet & Convention Center 23401 Mound Rd, Warren
Thursday, September 24, 2015
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October Events
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IFLC 3rd Annual Awards Dinner
Shriner's Silver Garden
24350 Southfield Rd, Southfield
Wednesday, October 14, 6:30 pm
Journey Into Mystery
Doorways, Portals and Cracks in Time
Song and Spirit Institute for Peace
2599 Harvard, Berkley, MI
Saturday, October 17, 10 am - 8:30 pm
Click for more info
Headcoverings Across the Faith Traditions
Interfaith Leadership Council
St. John's Episcopal Church
26998 Woodward Ave, Royal Oak
October 18, 2015, 3:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Click here for more info
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November Events
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Journey Into Mystery
Doorways, Portals and Cracks in Time
Song and Spirit Institute for Peace
2599 Harvard, Berkley, MI
Saturday, November 21, 10 am - 8:30 pm
Click for more info
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March 2016 Events
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The 2016 Seventeenth Annual World
Fort Street Presbyterian Church
631 W. Fort Street, Detroit
Sunday, March 6, 4:00 - 5:30 pm
After-glow from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
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IFLC is a community resource for interfaith education, news and events. To suggest an event for our next calendar, send us an email.
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