Tri-Faith News and Updates

Sukkot is a Jewish Festival being celebrated this week to mark the final harvest of the year.  This year the Union for Reform Judaism is urging everyone to spend some time learning more about our food supplies, to consider how we can live healthier and greener lives while being ever more appreciative of God’s bounty in our lives.

The Union for Reform Judiasm publishes a daily reflection called “Ten Minutes of Torah”, which covers Torah passages from a wide variety of perspectives.  To subscribe to the daily email go to http://www.URJ.org.  The Torah is the first five books of scriptures sometimes referred to as the Old Testament by Christians.  Because it is a fundamental scripture to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, studying Torah is something all people of the Tri-Faiths are called to do.

The Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska hosted a Stewardship Academy Friday, October 17, at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Omaha and invited The Tri-Faith Initiative to participate.  The Diocese is one of the three partner groups of the Tri-Faith along with Temple Israel and the American Institute of Islamic Studies and Culture.

The workshop was put on by consultants from the Episcopal Church Foundation in New York and covered developing a capital campaign and setting up a planned giving program and endowments to assure the future of your organization.  Great information, and all based on the need to tell the compelling stories of our faiths and our mininstries.  People will give to causes which change people’s lives and the Tri-Faith Initiative is already filled with those stories.  We’ll be sharing many of them here on the website as it is developed.

Nancy Kirk, Executive Director