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National Day of Interfaith Youth Service |
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Written by April Kunze, IFYC
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Friday, 04 February 2005 |
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Chicago, Illinois, USA On April 9-10, the 2005 National Day of Interfaith Youth Service will bring together religiously diverse young people in hometowns and academic campuses across the nation to serve their communities.
Coordinated by the Interfaith Youth Core, these young people will explore and act upon the impulse of service in their religious traditions and work towards better inter-religious understanding. In this second year, more than 20 cities and college campuses across America will participate. In coming years we hope to involve ever increasing numbers of cities and campuses.
Context and Mission The civic fabric of America will be greatly strengthened if every community recognized and engaged its religious diversity in working towards better understanding and cooperative service. Through the National Day of Interfaith Youth Service we are building a national network of communities that are heeding this call.
Goals
§ Nurture better relationships between faith communities by engaging religiously diverse young people and their faith communities to work for better understanding and cooperative service
§ Strengthen religious young people’s connection to their own religious community by exploring teachings of service in their own faith tradition
§ Encourage religious young people to see a similar impulse of service in other traditions
§ Mobilize the idea of this possibility into the local and national culture
How Do I Get Involved
Visit us online at www.ifyc.org/ndiys/index.html and contact April Kunze at the Interfaith Youth Core –
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or +01.312.573.8826. We have several resources available including:
Ø Contact information for site leaders in your area
Ø Organizing materials
Ø On-site and video training
Ø Speaking engagements
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Last Updated ( Monday, 21 March 2005 )
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