ONE Sabbath Forum in PA
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In 2009, ONE is engaging faith communities through its ONE Sabbath effort, which gives local congregations and believers opportunities to respond to such global challenges as AIDS, malaria, lack of clean water and children out of school, and informs congregations about the proven solutions that can save lives and transform impoverished communities.
The ONE Sabbath effort includes Jewish and Christian congregations and encompasses ONE Sadaqa in the Muslim community and ONE Seva in the Hindu community.
ONE Sabbath provides participants with tools to become advocates within their own faith traditions. Whether through an academic forum, a small study group, a visit to a politician’s office, a sermon, a multimedia worship presentation, a petition, a gift to charity, a community organizing event or a conversation with a neighbor, ONE Sabbath participants will help to educate their communities and inspire healing and hope for those who need it most.
On Sunday, February 15 at 2pm, Lebanon Valley College and ONE will host a forum exploring the special role faith communities play in responding to the consequences of global poverty, hunger and preventable diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
The forum will be moderated by the Rev. Sandra L. Strauss, the director of public advocacy for the Pennsylvania Council of Churches, and will include panelists from various faith traditions: Sensei Tony Stultz from the Buddhist community; the Rev. Dan Donmoyer from the Lutheran Church; Samia Malik, director of communications for the Council of American Islamic Relations; Patrick Walker regional director for Church World Service; and Rabbi Paula Reimers from the Jewish community.
The forum is part of ONE’s ‘ONE Sabbath’ effort, which aims to mobilize people of faith across America to speak out and take action for those struggling against poverty and disease around the world.The panelists will be asked how their faith traditions are responding to the issues of poverty and disease on a global and personal level, and how faith communities can work together to respond. The event will be captured on DVD.
Please register here for this event.
-Brian Sweeney
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February 4, 2009 at 9:38 pm
“ONE Sabbath provides participants with tools to become advocates within their own faith traditions. ” Wait, wait, wait…so your providing me the tools? Which tools are you providing me? Oh…your going to arm me with “talking points” and conveniently one-sided information that’s already predisposed to the notion that “something must be done”. I see ONE is still in the business of providing “a multimedia worship presentation”. …because you know what any given faith you’ve prepared one of these for…because you know that faith better than, lets say….I don’t know, maybe the priest, rabbi, etc., etc., and the congregation. The day that happens, a little piece of me will die inside; you’ll have to open your own church.