Antelope Valley Interfaith Council

The following are our new officers for 2010, all on the Board of Directors:

President: Valerie Elliott
Secretary: Lisa Morgenstern
Treasurer: Hilde Brooks

Our other two Board of Directors members are Deborah Shelton and Archbishop Bernard Price.

An invitation from Sheriff Leroy Baca:

Dear Community Leader:

Please accept this letter as my personal invitation for you to attend the 10th Annual Multi-Faith Prayer Breakfast and the 16th Annual Community Day event on Saturday, January 16, 2010. This year’s theme is: “Show your Love!” The event will be held at the H.O.P.E. For Life Foundation, 1430 West Manchester Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90047.

Both events, the Prayer Breakfast and Community Day, will be returning to their original location where it all began. The Community Day activities will include: entertainment, literacy awareness, business expo, home buyers expo, job fair, health forum, youth empowerment, community resources and a list of other community outreach services.

Please plan ahead and mark your calendar to join me for this momentous occasion by completing the registration form. Once completed, you can either fax it to: (323) 778-4673 or email it to: hope4life_90047@yahoo.com.

Please feel free to contact my Field Deputy Bishop Edward R. Turner at (323) 753-4673 for additional information. I thank you in advance for your participation in this most worthwhile community event.

Sincerely,
LEROY D. BACA
SHERIFF

We are calling for a BOD corporate meeting to be held at Lancaster United Methodist Church, on Tuesday January 12th at Noon. Non Board members are welcome to attend please just RSVP so we know who is attending. And our next month’s meeting for AV Interfaith Council of the membership will be held on Wednesday January 13th at 1pm, at the Center for Spiritual Living at 1pm.

We plan to discuss at our next AVIC meeting changing our meeting time, perhaps to the second Wed of the month to avoid conflicts with other organization meetings. And possibly to make it a noon meeting instead of 1pm. Please come prepared to discuss this and hopefully we will have come to a conclusion about Elections and how to handle things so we can determine our incoming officers for 2010.

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Blessings,

Lisa Morgenstern

The AVIC Fall 2009 Newsletter is now available. You can download it here (PDF).

This year’s “9/11 Memorial and Unity Service” will be held on September 11 at:

The Guidance Charter School
1125 E Palmdale Blvd
Palmdale, CA 93550

Time: 6 to 7 p.m.

This event has been hosted jointly with Antelope Valley Interfaith Council and Antelope Valley Human Relations Task Force annually since 2002. Although deemed “Patriot Day” by Congress since October 2001, the focus of this event has been unity and respect.

This year’s title is “Hold onto the rope of Truth – be United” and the guest speaker is Brian Haws, Warden of the California State Prison, Los Angeles County, in Lancaster.

A portion of the proceeds will go to the Military Resource Center.

There will be a free community meal following the service.

For further information, contact Valerie Elliott valerie@antelecom.net or 661-943-0422.