DAY 634: Faithful Interfaith Sharing…Clergy Edition

March 26, 2014
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DAY 634: Faithful Interfaith Sharing…Clergy Edition

Dear Hevreh,
 
 Yesterday, I talked about how, in interfaith contexts, sharing meaningful objects from our faith traditions help us share ourselves with one another. Tonight, I will be engaging in another interfaith encounter in which we will share part of ourselves with one another…as clergy.
 
Tonight I will be co-leading a training/meeting for the Perth Amboy Chaplain Corps with a wonderful pastor, Bernadette Falcon Lopez of God’s Army Ministries. The purpose of this training is to begin the process of building the collective mission for the Perth Amboy Chaplain Corps, which unites the largest collection of clergy in Perth Amboy. We are beginning this process in the similar manner that Reverend Anne-Marie and I began the interfaith session on Sunday, through sharing our stories with one another to get to know each other better and to build connections with each other’s unique faith journeys. Yet more than just stories of our faith, these stories are about how we see ourselves as clergy, how we came to our “calling” or our mission to be faith leaders. In other words, before building our collective mission as a group, we will collectively share the unique experiences that guide us on the path to be emissaries of the Source of all Life. 
 
Only by sharing these stories of our personal missions, which are part of the Unique Torah of our lives, can we truly discover who we want to become and what we want to accomplish as a united group of Perth Amboy faith leaders. There are many wonderful things we can do together, for our city, for our ministries and rabbinates, and for greater understanding and peace in the world. I’m excited to be part of this process and I look forward to sharing with you (and at times to bring you along to accomplish) some of the results of this process.
 
Kol Tuv,
 
Rabbi Ari Saks 

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