Marin Interfaith Council Newsletter

June 29, 2017

Welcome to the semi-monthly bulletin of news and events from the Marin Interfaith Council.

For more information visit our website at www.marinifc.org. Thank you for your interest in MIC.

News

MIC News

Advocating for Immigrants Families

MIC, along with other faith and community groups, is advocating on behalf of Hugo Mejia and Ro drigo Nuñez, who have been separated from their families and are being detained by Immigration & Customs Enforcement, despite having no criminal record.

For more information on their status and how you can help, CLICK HERE.

Bahá'í Faith Light of Unity Festival

This year, the Bahá'ís of the world are celebrating the Bicentennial of the Birth of the founder of the Bahá'í Faith who was born in 1817. Over 5 million Baha'is worldwide are preparing for upcoming celebrations.

In honor of this occasion, Bryn Deamer is offering to your congregation a 15 minute talk about who Bahá'u'lláh is and why this 200th year of his birth is being celebrated.

You are invited to contact him and arrange a talk anytime between now and March 21, 2018. Please contact Bryn Deamer at [email protected] or 415-747-7110.

MIC Events

Marin Interfaith Council

Monthly Interfaith Meditation

Rabbi Susan Leider

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

5:30-6:30 pm

First Presbyterian Church Chapel

1510 Fifth Avenue, San Rafael

Donation to MIC at the door.

Every Second Wednesday of the month, a leader from a different spiritual community will offer a meditation or spiritual practice and explain how it flows from the basic tenets of his/her faith tradition. Each gathering will include time for questions and insights that emerge from our shared time of intentional spiritual practice.

This month's leader is

Rabbi Susan Leider.

A Southern California native, Rabbi Leider received her Bachelor of Music and Masters of Fine Arts degrees from the University of California at Irvine. She also has a Master of Rabbinic Studies degree and her rabbinic ordination from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles. Combining her love of Judaism and music, Rabbi Leider brings a welcoming presence to multi-generational and participatory services. By integrating traditional texts with modern sources, she helps Jews to find meaning in their own spiritual journey. At the heart of her rabbinate is the belief that each person has a narrative to share with the community, and it is through sharing these stories that we build stronger connections with each other.

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Co-Sponsored Events

Interfaith Gala Dessert Reception

to help Yezidis facing genocide

Rev. Victor Kazanjian, Jr.

August 29, 2017, 7:00 to 9:00 pm,

Peninsula Sinai Congregation,

499 Boothbay Avenue, Foster City, CA 94404

Tickets $36. For info, donations and ticket sales:
http://www.norcalrabbis.org/yezidis/gala/

Contact: Rabbi Pamela Frydman[email protected]

Our Gala honors Rev. Victor Kazanjian, Jr., United Religions Initiative; Rabbi Marvin Goodman, Board of Rabbis of Northern California; and Fatih Ates, Pacifica Instititue. Keynote speaker: Salem Daoud, head Yezidi religious leader for the United States and Canada. This is a benefit for the Beyond Genocide Campaign helping Yezidis facing genocide in Iraq.

The Marin Interfaith Council is a sponsor of the Beyond Genocide Campaign.

Community Events

Community Events are always displayed on our MIC website here . Feel free to submit your own event at any time using the online form here . The deadline for submissions is the 10th and 25th of every month.

2017

July -

July Immigration Vigil, Saturday, July 1, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, West County Detention Facility, Richmond.
Interfaith Devotional Gathering, Music & Breakfast, Saturday, July 15, 8:30 - 10:30 am, Members of the Baha'i Faith hosting, home in San Rafael.
Institute of Noetic Sciences, International Conference, Thursday, July 20- Sunday July 23, Oakland. http://noetic.org/community/conference
Awakening the Heart to the Other: A Spiritual Retreat at SFTS, Thursday, July 20 - Saturday, July 22, 5:00 pm - 11:00 am, SFTS Susanna Baird Retreat Center, San Anselmo.
Suicide Loss Support Group, Monday, July 31, 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Hospice by the Bay, Larkspur.

August

Free Grief Education Class, Wednesday August 23, 600 - 7:00 pm, Larkspur.

If you have an event that has a deadline, please let me know when submitting event. Thanks!

For more community events click here

Community Announcements

Wood Stove Rebate Program Outreach

Last call to apply for rebates to decommission or replace your fireplace or wood stoves. Focus is on helping homeowners who are low income or who live in a high wood smoke area. The Marin County Sustainability Team has been hard at work promoting rebates of up to $12,000 offered through the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and Marin County Government to Marin homeowners. Sign up here: http://www.baaqmd.gov/grant-funding/residents/wood-smoke-rebate . It will say there is a wait-list, but it's worth getting on it, especially residents who are low-income or use their wood stoves as their sole source of heat.

You can learn more about this program through a recent radio interview here: http://kwmr.org/broadcasts/5304.

Any questions, please contact Kellen Dammann, Sustainability Marketing & Outreach Specialist, at (415) 473-2698.

Resilient Neighborhoods, Marin: workshops on how to reduce your carbon footprint

Most of us don't realize the far-reaching impacts of our thousands of small daily decisions on our community and our planet. But we honestly want to do the right thing. Resilient Neighborhoods gives you the information to make positive choices, and supports you in learning new habits and responsible stewardship, and it's free!

New classes are starting around Marin "soon" (Novato in July, & San Rafael and Mill Valley in September). Click for details and to sign up: http://bit.ly/2h3RA8w or c ontact Dara at RNoutreachassociate@g mail.com or call 415-485-5063 x 7102.

Report from the Border Lands

Members of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tiburon are available to share their experiences from a recent delegation trip to the Arizona/Mexico border with BorderLinks. Eighteen people, including two youth, were in Tucson and environs for five days. We walked the dessert, experienced road-side checkpoints, attended an immigration hearing, touched the wall, and crossed the border into Mexico. This faith-based trip transformed our understanding about why people come to the United States, and what happens when they are detained by Homeland Security.

If your congregation would like to learn more about immigration and the US Border Lands, two of us can join you to give a 30 minute PowerPoint presentation, stay to answer questions from the experience, and leave a resource list of how to learn more about immigration policies and social action options. If your faith community would like to schedule a presentation, please contact Rev. Barbara Rowe at [email protected] to schedule.

Chairs needed for Habit for Humanity's dedication event

We are reaching out to our faith partners for support in supplying about 50 chairs for our home dedication event at our Mt Burdell site in Novato on Saturday, July 29th, 2017. We would ask that the chairs could be delivered on Friday afternoon, July 28th or early morning on Saturday, July 29th. If you feel that no one would be able to deliver or pick up the chairs, we can reach out to our events team to see what we can do. Please call Marie Stromberg-Wojcik, 415-625-1040 or e-mail [email protected].