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“Collective Prayer in Action”
7th ANNUAL NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER
Thursday, May 6, 2010
7:00 PM
Keynote Speaker:
Norm Hickling
Deputy for the Antelope Valley Office of Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich
To be held at:
Center for Spiritual Living (Previously Center of Light)
1030 W. Ave. L-8
Lancaster, CA 93534
661-948-0873
Presented by Antelope Valley Interfaith Council
and
Antelope Valley Human Relations Task Force
Refreshments provided by Antelope Valley Interfaith Council
Edited: May 4th, 2010
March 8, 2010 AVIC Press Release
Antelope Valley Interfaith Council (AVIC) has announced their elected officers for the current year. They are: Valerie Elliott – President, Deborah Shelton – Vice President, Lisa Morgenstern – Secretary, Rev. Hilde Brooks – Treasurer, and Archbishop Bernie Price as Historian.
AVIC was established in the late 1980s as a place for religious leaders to discuss their community’s concerns and to share community activities. An early mission was to provide a forum in which members could exchange ideas and learn from each other’s teachings in order to build a better community. Since then, membership has expanded to include the general public – anyone who wishes to join them in achieving these goals. Also, some clergy, or faiths without clergy, may appoint someone from their congregation to be that faith’s representative.
Their mission also includes educating the public by hosting interfaith events and having a variety of faiths offer prayer or brief information about their faith at these events. An example of the inclusionary vision of the Council is their National Day of Prayer (NDP) service that is held at the Center for Spiritual Living (formerly the Center of Light) in Lancaster. Prior to AVIC’s evening NDP event, the only other NDP event has been the Mayors’ NDP Breakfast meetings that have been exclusively for a specific interpretation of Christianity.
Edited: March 11th, 2010
Valley’s many faiths offer many prayers
This story appeared in the Antelope Valley Press
Friday, May 8, 2009.
By CHARLES F. BOSTWICK
Valley Press Managing Editor
LANCASTER – A song in Hebrew by a young resistance fighter executed in World War II, Nichiren Shu Buddhism and Bhakti yoga chants, a prayer to Odin, and “America, the Beautiful” and “How Great Thou Art” were part of the Antelope Valley Interfaith Council’s sixth annual National Day of Prayer Service.
“Out of Many Faiths Come Many Prayers” was the theme for the service, which featured Unitarian-Universalist, Asatru, Christian Science, Nichiren Shu Buddhism, Revealing Truth and Bhakti yoga prayers and readings – asking for courage and compassion, for leaders who serve the people and enact fair laws, and for help to become better human beings.
“I enjoy hearing all the different faith traditions,” said Wiccan Elder Priestess Lisa Morgenstern, who offered a prayer to Odin at the gathering, which drew about 60 people to the Center of Light and which was co-sponsored by the Antelope Valley Human Relations Task Force.
Rabbi David Hoffman of Beth Knesset Bamidbar in Lancaster sang, in Hebrew, a poem by Hannah Szenes, who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe in 1944 to rescue Jews about to be deported to a death camp. She was captured, tortured and executed at age 23.
“Oh God, may these things never cease: the sand and the sea, the rush of the waters, the flash in the heavens, the prayer in humanity’s heart,” Hoffman translated.
Edited: May 9th, 2009
2009 National Day of Prayer Flyer
Download and print the flyer for the 2009 National Day of Prayer Service Flyer.
2009 National Day of Prayer Flyer
Edited: May 4th, 2009
Blessings of the Spring Season!
As we move from Spring towards Summer, we think of the seeds we have planted that will sprout and grow in the coming growing season. What seeds have you planted? What do you plan to harvest from life in the fall? Plants grow with nurturing, so plan to nurture your soul with us at the National Day of Prayer service we are holding this May. Our services nurture and feed the spirit and soul of all faith traditions, in inclusive manner. We work together for common goals and take pride in our diversity and celebrate it. Our country was founded on precepts of religious freedom by settlers trying to escape religious intolerance. Here in our valley, we celebrate our differences by partnering with the Antelope Valley Human Relations Hate Crimes Task Force in presenting a program where all faiths can pray for our elected officials in their own manner. And we can learn from each other’s differences, just how alike we really are.
Edited: April 5th, 2009
