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The Religious Diversity Journeys to Temple Israel, Temple Beth El, and Adat Shalom Synagogue were wonderful successes. They would not happen without the contributions of so many volunteers, or without the clergy in these congregations. Volunteer and professional, they represent their faiths to the students, parents, and teachers who have come to learn and connect, and to give them what is often a first taste of that faith tradition. This is a crucial step on the journey toward understanding and respect. And we want to thank the Jewish clergy for making it such a powerful one, for their kindness, openness, humor, good will, and welcoming spirit, and for sharing their thoughts on the journeys:
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8 Mile is 6 Inches Between Our Ears
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Prejudice, fear, hate. What we don't know can hurt us, can hurt our children, can hurt our community. Distributing information can help. Creating understanding can heal.
On December 5, our community members have a unique opportunity to participate in a program designed to get us to look inside ourselves and listen to our neighbors. The day-long program is called Challenge Day. It was initially developed to facilitate dialogue within schools. But the December 5 Challenge Day has been created to facilitate dialogue across the lines that divide our community.
Click here for all the info
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Volunteer to Help Repair Flood-damaged Homes Before the Holidays
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Volunteer for ONE DAY and help 100 families in Detroit by clearing out their flood-damaged homes before the holidays!
Click here for more info.
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Share Find Mi Care
Help Community Find
Health Care Treatment
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The Greater Detroit Area Health Council developed a website and mobile application called Find MI Care,
which was developed in response to the community need to receive better coordinated health care treatment in an appropriate setting.
This user-friendly website and mobile app can be used to search for and find clinics and doctors within a specified zip code. Hospitals, physicians, and clinic staff are able to print a list of clinics near the patient's home during the discharge process, and community groups can use this site to connect people to health care resources.
The website can be viewed at www.findmicare.org and the mobile app can be downloaded for free from either the Apple or Google Play stores.
Andrell Sturdivant, Program Coordinator for Find MI Care is available to attend staff meetings at other agencies to present Find MI Care. For more information, please contact: Andrell Sturdivant at asturdivant@gdahc.org or 313-963-4990, ext. 240.
Please share this information with anyone who may need or be able to share it.
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Interfaith Thanksgiving Events
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Pre-Thanksgiving Day Event and Dinner
Common Word Alliance
Hamtramck Public Library
2360 Caniff, Hamtramck, MI
Wednesday, November 25, 5:oo - 8:00 pm
Click here for more info
14th Annual Thanksgiving Day
Parade Breakfast and Benefit
Ecumenical Theological Seminary
2930 Woodward Avenue, Detroit
Thursday, November 26, 8 AM
Click here for more info
Services will be held in Christian Science churches
in the greater Detroit area on Thursday morning, November 26th. Ann Arbor, Birmingham, Farmington, Milford, Plymouth, Port Huron, Rochester, Royal Oak and Trenton at 10:30. Fenton, Flint, Grosse Pointe Farms and Oxford at 11:00.
Click here to find one near you
Photo: By Ben Franske (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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Detroit Interfaith Outreach Network is offering great ways to volunteer:
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Durfee Middle School Literacy Tutors to go once a week for about an hour to work with a student on reading, writing, simple math, etc - based on what the classroom teacher wants.
Career speakers for Life Journeys program - requires you to go to one or two classrooms one day once a year.
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Question of the Week
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How do Christian Scientists Celebrate Thanksgiving?
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 by; Gilabrand at English Wikipedia [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], 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
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November Events
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Pre-Thanksgiving Day Event and Dinner
Common Word Alliance
Hamtramck Public Library
2360 Caniff, Hamtramck, MI
Wednesday, November 25, 5:oo - 8:00 pm
Click here for more info
14th Annual Thanksgiving Day
Parade Breakfast and Benefit
Ecumenical Theological Seminary
2930 Woodward Avenue, Detroit
Thursday, November 26, 8 AM
Click here for more info
Thanksgiving services will be held in Christian Science churches in the greater Detroit area, Ann Arbor, Birmingham, Farmington, Milford, Plymouth, Port Huron, Rochester, Royal Oak and Trenton at 10:30. Fenton, Flint, Grosse Pointe Farms and Oxford at 11:00.
Thursday, November 26th
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December 2015 Events
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Story Tyme: Recreating the Magic
Ecumenical Theological Seminary
2930 Woodward Avenue, Detroit
Saturday, December 5, 5 pm to 8 pm
Community Challenge Day
Bridging 8 Mile/Association for Youth Empowerment
Detroit Unity Temple
17505 Second Blvd,
Sat., Dec. 5, 8:30-a.m. - 4 pm
Food, Faith, and Friends Interfaith Dinner Troy-area Interfaith Group
2Booli Mediterranean Restaurant
854 E. Big Beaver Road, Troy
Monday, December 7, 7:00 -8:30 pm
Student and Community Workshop
Ecumenical Theological Seminary
2930 Woodward Avenue, Detroit
Friday, December 11, 4 pm - 7 pm
Saturday, December 12, 9:30 am - 4 pm
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March 2016 Events
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The 2016 Seventeenth Annual World Sabbath
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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