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Box #7, One Canterbury Green, Stamford, CT 06901 (corner of Suburban and Main Streets)
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VIRGINIA SCHROEDER FUND NO LONGER ACCEPTING GRANT APPLICATIONS: The Virginia Schroeder Fund has now been spent down, and we will no longer be accepting applications. Since the Fund began in 2005, we have given out 247 grants totaling a little under $1 million, to 157 families throughout Stamford, Norwalk, Greenwich, New Canaan and Darien. Families who have current grants with us will continue to receive funding until their grant ends.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS: I

Please join us on June 3rd, 2010, at 6:30 PM at Rogers International School, 202 Blachley Road, Stamford, for a "Report to the Community" on the Initiative to Bring Neighbors Link to Stamford. The InterFaith Council is proud to co-sponsor this event. The evening will feature a screening of the Award Winning documentary film, "La Americana" www.la-americana.com. This film is a moving documentary following the journey of an undocumented immigrant from Bolivia to New York City and back, as she struggles to save the life of her ailing daughter. Her story puts a human face on this timely issue. The film is appropriate for adults, middle school and high school age students.

The second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 is our Listen, Learn and Latte Interfaith conversation with Rabbi Joshua Hammerman at Borders Books on High Ridge Road in Stamford. All are invited to attend and participate. The discussion is always varied and lively. The group does not meet during the summer and will resume in the fall.

Interfaith Book Club: to gather to discuss books that enhance mutual understanding between our various world religions. Books selected will either be positive and contemporary representations of their respective traditions or contemporary versions of time-honored classic texts; recommendations are welcomed that meet this criteria

We'll meet 7:00 - 8:30 PM in the downstairs community room of the Stamford Church of Christ, 1264 High Ridge Rd., just 300 yards north of the Merritt Parkway (Exit 35) on the left. For more information or to RSVP (appreciated but not required) contact DalePauls@worldnet.att.net.

Fall 2009 through spring 2010:

Sept. 24^th JUDAISM: An Overview. Discussion led by Rabbi Emily Korzenik. Reading suggestion: The Book of Genesis. .

Oct. 22^nd Shirley du Boulay, Beyond the Darkness: A Biography of Bede Griffiths. The story of a great 20^th-century interfaith visionary and catholic reformer who by his life and thought explored the possibility of being a Hindu Catholic.

Dec. 3^rd Eboo Patel, Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. Patel draws on his own Muslim,Indian and American heritage to craft a manifesto for interfaith cooperation among young people discovering along the way that traditions he once thought were mutually exclusive are, in fact, mutually enriching.

Jan. 28th Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi. From its cover: “At once an absorbing account of a singular search for Truth and a comprehensive introduction to the whole science and philosophy of Yoga, revealing the underlying unity of the great religions of East and West.” A book passionately Hindu and yet Christ-haunted.

Feb. 25^th Ed McGaa. Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths to Healing Ourselves and Our World. A portrayal of Native American spirituality from the inside out, both a love song to creation and a very practical hands-on introduction to Native American practices.

Mar. 25^th The Monks of New Skete. In the Spirit of Happiness. From the rhythms and richness of monastic tradition these famous dog-training monks finds in the midst of everyday life a happiness anchored in discovering God’s mercy and compassion at the heart of all things.

Apr. 29^th Robert A. F. Thurman, trans. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Liberation through Understanding in the Between. A Buddhist classic for centuries, more recently, influential in the West for its psychological insights into the processes of death and dying—and what they can teach us about the way we live our lives.

June 3^rd Malidoma Patrice Somé. The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community. Draws on the life and ritual of indigenous people to re-establish for us all an intimate relationship with the natural world.

To reserve a place in The InterFaith Book Club or for more information including location of meetings, contact Dale Pauls, President of The InterFaith Council, at DalePauls@worldnet.att.net or at 203/322-9417, ext. 11.

WE NEED YOUR HELP so when you’re considering gifts and thinking of causes you can believe in, please remember us. As an essentially all-volunteer organization, we can assure you that monies contributed to the Council go directly to programs and services, with very, very little needed for overhead. Even small gifts to us can make big differences. One more thing, if you or your congregation are not already dues-paying members of the Council, go here for an explanation of our dues structure and application forms.

DARFUR: we at the InterFaith Council want to express our support for all efforts to bring peace and justice to our fellow human beings, children of the God we all worship, in Darfur.
Reverend Dale Pauls, President.