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Have you been to a Jain temple?
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In 1975, a radio announcement went out looking for individuals who wanted a place to worship as Jains. Fifty families gathered to start what would be a growing religious community in Farmington Hills. Over the next four decades, the Jain Society of Greater Detroit reached many milestones, first worship service, formation of executive board, institution of study programs, visiting scholars, summer camp programs, and the start of service programs like a clothes collection for the needy in India.
In 1989, they purchased the land at Twelve Mile Road and Middlebelt in Farmington Hills, and in 1997, 160 families participated in the brick laying for the temple, which opened a year later. On Tuesday, September 27, Exploring Our Religious Landscapes participants will be welcomed to their temple, and have the unique opportunity to visit one of less than 100 Jain temples in the United States.
Read about our upcoming visit to the Jain Temple...
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A Hindu temple is a place where visitors are invited to walk whatever path they choose towards the divine. All that is asked of the Hindu is cleanliness of body, thought, and spirit within the temple, and the acceptance of all paths to God as equally valid.
On August 30, participants in the Exploring our Religious Landscapes program will have a unique opportunity to learn about Hinduism at the Sri Venkateswara Hindu Temple in Novi. After shedding their shoes at the door, a tradition originating in dusty India to maintain the cleanliness of the temple, visitors will be invited in to learn about the theology of the 10,000-year-old religion and the cultural traditions associated with it.
Read about this amazing journey...
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This Sunday!
Annual Interfaith Picnic
August 7 on Belle Isle
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Cass Community Services
Building a Ladder
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During the Great Depression, the Cass Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church started a food line and emptied its endowment fund providing assistance to the many unemployed. From that first outreach to the community's needy, its efforts have grown steadily, adding assistance to the developmentally challenged and homebound seniors in the 1950s and to the homeless in the 1980s, with the creation of a homeless drop-in shelter and a network of 40 partner churches to form a rotating interfaith shelter.
Under the leadership of Reverend Faith Fowler, Cass Community Services (CCS) has continued expanding, seeking solutions for the most intractable disadvantages to give those living in poverty a ladder of services and support to help them climb out.
Read about how 50,000 abandoned tires are helping the homeless out of poverty
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Volunteer for Neighborhood Day
with Arise Detroit
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 HOW TO VOLUNTEER FOR NEIGHBORHOODS DAY ON SATURDAY, AUG. 6, 10TH ANNUAL NEIGHBORHOODS DAY There will be scores of volunteer projects available for the 10th annual ARISE Detroit! Neighborhoods Day on Saturday, Aug.6. There are many cleanup and beautification projects as well as event support opportunities at festivals and other events. You can participate as an individual or you can have your organization "adopt" or partnering with a Neighborhoods Day group. Volunteering is simple four process. - Go to the website, www.arisedetroit.org
- Click into the Neighborhoods Events List.
- Scan the list of projects and select the project that interest you.
- Phone the contact person listed for the project and make arrangements for your visit on Neighborhoods Day.
If you make a connection, please email us at info@arisedetroit.org and let us know what project you will support. Thank you for Being Part Of The Change!
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Volunteer to tutor for
Zaman International
Training August 27
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The BOOST Sewing/Literacy Program at Zaman International strives to assist vulnerable women to get back on track with their lives through improving literacy and building job skills. They are looking for tutors to volunteer for a minimum of 2 hours a week to work one-on-one or with small groups of 2-3 students, teaching English and life skills. Students attend 2 hours of English classes and 2 hours of sewing classes twice a week. We would like to invite you to register as a literacy volunteer using our new electronic system. The Fall Session will run from September through December.
Tutor Training will be on Saturday, August 27th.
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The IFLC is quickly, and through intense effort, becoming one of our community's key creators of educational programs designed to help us all come to the mutual respect and understanding that helps us undertake the crucial work of building our community together. The work of creating a network of congregations, faith-based organizations, and interfaith groups goes on daily through our outreach and conciliation efforts. The goal is nothing less than a faith community that acts in concert to remedy the many challenges facing all of its members. Our annual awards dinner is both a chance to recognize some of our community's most effective activists and to raise money to continue our growing efforts. We hope you will both attend and support these efforts through an ad in our commemorative program book. Click for information on supporting the IFLC with an ad.
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IFLC Annual Awards Dinner
October 5th, 2016 at Burton Manor
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2016 Honorees
Dan Hart Krichbaum Visionary Civic Leader Award
Nancy M. Schlichting, CEO: Henry Ford Health System
Community Service Award
Bruce Millan, Founder and Artistic Director: Detroit Repertory Theater
Interfaith Leadership Award
WISDOM (Women's Interfaith Solutions for Dialogue and Outreach in MetroDetroit)
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Exploring Our Religious Landscapes
Registration Open for Fall!
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Every day we read the newspapers and see the unrelenting pain and suffering caused by failures of understanding, failures of openness, failures of communication. For those of us who involved in interfaith work, we know that a little bit of religious understanding can go a very long way. And we're excited about the many opportunities we can create in our community to create it.
Click here to register.
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Question of the Week
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Q: Do Jains believe in God?
The IFLC would like to help foster our understanding of one another by using our newsletter as a forum for you to ask these 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!
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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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August 2016 Events
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Adult Mental Health First Aid Training Workshop
Trinity St. Mark's
9315 W. Fort Street, Detroit
Saturday, August 6, 8:30 am- 4:30 pm
Interfaith Suburban-Urban Annual Unity Picnic
Detroit Interfaith Outreach Network
Belle Isle, Detroit (Central Ave)
Sunday, August 7, noon - 5 pm
Click for more info
Exploring Our Religious Landscapes
Sri Venkateswara Hindu Temple
26233 Taft Road, Novi
Tuesday, August 30, 6 - 9 pm
Click here for more info
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September 2016 Events
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Troy-area Interfaith Group
"Belief", a screening of Oprah Winfrey's television series
Northminster Presbyterian Church
3633 West Big Beaver Road, Troy.
Monday, September 12th, 7:00-8:30 pm
Walking in Oak Creek
Macomb Family Resource Center
196 N. Rose Street, Mount Clemens
Friday, September 16, 9:30 - 11:30 am
Click here for more info
Uncovering Our Sacred Texts Panel
Interfaith Leadership Council
Mata Tripta Ji Gurdwara Sahib
40600 Schoolcraft Road, Plymouth
Sunday, September 18th- 3:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Click here for more info
Interfaith Amigos -
The Power of Interfaith Dialogue
Thursday, Sept. 22
Workshop 1: Creating Trust in an Interfaith Environment
11 a.m. - 12 p.m. * Alpena Community College, Granum Theatre
Workshop 2: The Value of a Core Teaching
2 p.m. - 3 p.m. * Alpena Community College, Granum Theatre
Challenges to Interfaith Cooperation
7 p.m. * Alpena High School, Stanley Beck Auditorium
Exploring Our Religious Landscapes
The Jain Temple of Farmington Hills
29278 12 Mile Road, Farmington Hills
Tuesday, September 27, 6 - 9 pm
Click here for more info
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October 2016 Events
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InterFaith Leadership Council
4th Annual Awards Dinner
Wednesday, October 5th, 5:30pm
Burton Manor, 27777 Schoolcraft Road, Livonia
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November 2016 Events
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Exploring Our Religious Landscapes
The First Church of Christ- Scientist
191 North Chester Street, Birmingham
Tuesday, November 1, 6 - 9 pm
Exploring Our Religious Landscapes
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
37425 Woodward Ave, Bloomfield Hills
Tuesday, November 29, 6 - 9 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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