News for the ‘Members’ Category
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
St. Thomas Christians in epochal meeting
This story appeared in the Antelope Valley Press on Saturday, November 24, 2007.
SANTA CRUZ – Dr. Bernard Archbishop Price and Father Rich Heredia of Lancaster’s Mar Thoma Orthodox Catholic Church attended the first global meeting of St. Thomas Christians on Saturday, Nov. 17, at Garfield Park Christian Church here.
The meeting was sponsored by the Federation of St. Thomas Christians, Order of Antioch.
“In attendance were His Holiness Moran Mar Joseph Narsai; two metropolitans, from France and India; five U.S. archbishops; and more than 15 bishops, also from the United States,” Archbishop Price told the Valley Press.
Archbishop Price and Father Heredia celebrated the divine liturgy on behalf of His Holiness Moran Mar Joseph Narsai, patriarch of the St. Thomas Christians in the United States.
The meeting marked the 115th anniversary of the consecration of Moran Mar Vilatte and the 44th anniversary of the consecration of Moran Mar Joseph.
Edited: November 24th, 2007
