| Gift Cards for Christmas Stockings Needed |
Christmas stockings for homeless folks are now being put together by many interested groups.
We would like to attach $5 or $10 gift cards to each of them.
If you would like to help please send your gift card to:
Christmas Stockings
Loaves and Fishes
PO Box 13495
Sacramento, CA 95813
Thank you in advance!
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Thursday, December 11 MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH
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MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH
Interfaith / Ecumenical Evening
Of Prayer For Peace
The Passionist Catholic community of Citrus Heights joins with the Interfaith / Ecumenical community of Greater Sacramento as together we offer prayers and blessings for peace in our world.
Program:
Candle Lighting Ceremony
Music for Meditation
Directed Meditation
Offering of Prayers
Blessing One Another with Peace
Friendship Social Gathering
December 11, 2014
7:30 - 9:00 pm ~ See our flyer
Location:
Christ the King Passionist Retreat Center
6520 Van Maren Lane, Citrus Heights, CA 95621-4919
Contact & Additional Information:
Carol Forrest (916) 725-4720. Ext. 314 / cforrest@passionist.org
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| Friday, December 19 SACRAMENTO HOMELESS MEMORIAL INTERFAITH SERVICE |
Sacramento Homeless Memorial
Interfaith Service
December 19, 2014
7 PM - service
8 PM - reception
Location:
Trinity Cathedral
2620 Capitol Ave
Sacramento, CA 95816
Contact & Additional Information:
Please contact Bob Erlenbusch [SRCEH: 916-993-7708 or bob@srceh.org] for more information.
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| Saturday, December 20 INTERFAITH CHRISTMAS MUSICAL EVENT | |
"COME WE ALL UNTO CHRIST"
AN INTERFAITH CHRISTMAS MUSICAL EVENT
SPONSORED BY THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER DAY SAINTS
SATURDAY DEC. 20TH 2014 - 7:00 PM
MUSIC OF THE CHRIST CHILD & THE EVENTS SURROUNDING HIS BIRTH.
MUSIC TO BE PERFORMED BY GROUPS FROM OUR COMMUNITY
FREE ADMISSION, FREE PARKING, THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR THIS EVENT.
THIS EVENT IS FOR FAMILIES, FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, AND RELATIVES.
REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED FOR EVERYONE
ENJOY AN EVENING OF LIGHTS, MUSIC, FOOD AND FRIENDSHIP
COME AND VISIT WITH FRIENDS OF OUR COMMUNITY
Location:
2745 EASTERN AVE, SACRAMENTO CA 95821
Contact & Additional Information:
DORENE MILLS 916-488-6899 millsdor@yahoo.com
JAN COUTTS 509-420-6187 tomjan@thecoutts.com
DENNIS LARSON 916-359-7684 aviation@quiknet.com
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Wanted: Help from More Congregations for the Winter Sanctuary Program
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I am reaching out to you on behalf of Sacramento Steps Forward and our Winter Sanctuary program, our annual shelter program which houses and feeds up to 100 homeless people per night. We partner up with local Sacramento congregations to host our guests for as many evenings as they are willing to commit to. Right now we are actively seeking help from more congregations due to many evenings we have unfilled in December. Typically we ask for congregations to provide a warm space for 100 people to sleep, a hot meal for dinner, a simple breakfast (like coffee, juice, and a danish), and optional recreational activities. However, if you are unable to provide both sleeping space and food, we are able to partner you up with another congregation who can provide what you may be unable to provide for. In other words, if you are able to provide food and volunteers but do not have enough space, we can partner you with one who has the space but are lacking food and volunteers, and vice versa.
The dates we are currently looking to fill are December 21, 24, 26 & 27.
We would absolutely love to work with your organization in encouraging congregations to participate and change the lives of those in need during this holiday season. Fellowship is welcomed by many of our guests who are struggling with their situation. I have attached three documents below providing some more information, and I would be happy to provide more information. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns.
Thank you very much!
Sharyl Caras
VISTA - Sacramento Intermediary
Sacramento Steps Forward
916.414.9012
scaras@sacstepsforward.org
Documents: Overview Host Information Guest Rules
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| Wanted: Network Contacts to Help with Housing for Homeless Couples | Looking for network contacts to help with homeless housing.
Street ministry hoping to find a house for married couples.
Ideally looking for someone to donate a house -- to house married couples who are homeless.
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| Wanted: Gathering/Meeting Place for Musical Practice and Rehearsal |
A Multipurpose Senior Service Program intern (Megan) is working on her Thesis. She is in need of a location to bring together seniors and members from the community-at-large in order to develop an intergenerational choir/band with the intent of decreasing feelings of isolation, sadness and anxiety, and improving quality of life for seniors (and others!).
If you would like to participate - and especially if you can provide a gathering/meeting place for practice and rehearsal -- please contact:
Teresa Ogan, LCSW
Supervising Care Manager
Multipurpose Senior Service Program (MSSP)
California Health Collaborative
(916) 273-1130
TOgan@healthcollaborative.org
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| Tuesday, January 13, 2015 INTERFAITH PRAYER SERVICE | |
What: Interfaith Prayer Service
Where: Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament - downtown
When: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 8:00am
To bring faith leaders and legislators together to begin the new legislative session.
Location:
Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
1017 11th Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
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| Saturday, January 17, 2015 LIBERATION REMEMBERED: A CONVERSATION |
Liberation Remembered: A Conversation "The Holocaust did not end with liberation," says Liz Igra. "We need a deeper understanding of the Holocaust, liberation and what's happened since, not as spectators but by seeing ourselves along the continuum." CVHEN (Central Valley Holocaust Educators' Network), founded by Igra, will present a community discussion to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps. Two Holocaust scholars will use their combined expertise in history and literature, as well as their personal perspectives, in a conversation open to everyone in the Sacramento community. Dr. Murray Baumgarten, a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Co-Director of Jewish Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz , and Dr. Peter Kenez, a historian specializing in Russian and Eastern European History and Professor Emeritus of History at UCSC have nearly a century of teaching between them. Both colleagues and comrades, the pair has been teaching the Holocaust for more than 30 years. Kenez grew up under Nazism and Communism in Hungary and Baumgarten was conceived in Vienna and born en route to Panama after his family fled Austria. Among other things, their conversation will be a discussion of Fatelessness by the Nobel Prize-winning author Imre Kertesz and the recently published Diary of Rywka Lipszyc, a Jewish teenage girl who wrote her diary while in the Lodz Ghetto. Liberation Remembered: A Conversation is sponsored by CVHEN and will be held Saturday, January 17 beginning at 7:00pm at the KOH Library and Cultural Center, 2300 Sierra Blvd. in Sacramento. There is no cost to attend and refreshments will be served. Location:
KOH Library, 2300 Sierra Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95825 Contact & Additional Information:
For more information or to RSVP, please contact Liz Igra at Liz@cvhen.com. (Portions of this announcement were printed with permission from an article by Elissa Provance in the December issue of the VOICE, a publication of the Jewish Federation of the Sacramento Region, entitled CVHEN Features Liberation Remembered: A Conversation.)
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| ICGS Mission Statement |
"The mission of the Interfaith Council of Greater Sacramento is to promote respect for all faiths and religious human rights for all, to encourage faiths to work together for better understanding and acceptance of all faiths and their people, to encourage a cohesive hand of all faiths in social services, to implement programs for the basic needs in the community and to help protect religious freedom as an element of human rights for all."
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