The Marin Interfaith Council Newsletter
March 14, 2019

Welcome to the semi-monthly bulletin of news and events from the Marin Interfaith Council. 

For more information visit our website at www.marinifc.org. Thank you for your interest in MIC.

     
MIC News
 
MIC News



Thank you to the faith communities and agencies that have donated to our annual appeal. 

If you have not donated yet, you may download the Appeal Letter & the reply Form HERE.

Thanks to:

MIC Winter Retreat


38 people attended MIC's winter retreat, "Inhabiting the Heart of the Divine Within You". Facilitators Kathleen Denison and Scott Quinn led participants in a day of silent reflection, ritual, and conversation regarding the agendas that govern our lives and the journey toward internal and external freedom. Special thanks to our gracious hosts at Santa Sabina Retreat Center. 

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BorderLinks 


Rev. Barbara Rowe

As President Trump pursues money for a border wall by declaring a national emergency, 15 Marin residents traveled to Arizona and Mexico to get a firsthand look at the situation.
 
About half of the group were members of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tiburon. The trip was organized by the Rev. Barbara Rowe, who was a pastor at the church prior to her retirement in 2013.
 
The excursion was part of an educational program offered by BorderLinks, a Tucson-based nonprofit that grew out of the sanctuary movement of the 1980s. Congregation Rodef Sholom also made a BorderLinks trip this winter.
 

For more information on Marin's network of accompaniment congregations that support local immigrant families, please contact Rev. Scott Quinn: director@marinifc.org.

MIC Events

MIC Monthly Meditation

Dr. Leili First
 

April 10th, 2019
5:30 - 6:30 pm

First Presbyterian Church
1510 Fifth Ave.
San Rafael, CA 94901

Cost: Love Offering at the door
(suggested donation $10-$20) 

Every second Wednesday of the month, a leader from a different spiritual community will offer a meditation or spiritual practice and explain how it flows from the basic tenets of his/her faith tradition. Each gathering will include time for questions and insights that emerge from our shared time of intentional spiritual practice. 

This month our leader is: 
Dr. Leili First

Leili First, Ph.D., is a student of Uwaisyi Sufism, and a long-time member of the International Association of Sufism and the Sufi Women Organization. She has given lectures on Sufism at colleges and universities and presented at the Annual Sufism Symposium and Parliament of the World's Religions.

Leili has been on the MIC Board from around 2003-2008 & been back on the board since 2014.


20th Annual Prayer Breakfast


Come join us in Community for the 
20th Annual Prayer Breakfast. 
It's our most popular event of the year!

Theme: Working at the Crossroads of Interfaith

Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
8:00 - 10:00 am

Congregation Kol Shofar
215 Blackfield Dr., Tiburon, CA

Speakers:

Fr. Thomas P. Bonacci - Executive Director Interfaith Peace Project

Rev. Susan Shannon - Interfaith Minister, Tibetan Buddhist, and Chaplain at San Quentin

Rabbi Henry Shreibman - Professor of Comparative Religion at Dominican University & CSU Sonoma

Cost:    Sliding fee scale $35- $50 individuals,
$350 table of eight

Breakfast buffet catered by Mangia Nosh


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Co-Sponsored Events

Interfaith Sustainable Food Collaborative

Faith, Farms & Food Conference


Tuesday, March 19, 2019
2:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Richmond Memorial Convention Center
403 Civic Center Plaza
Richmond, CA 94804 

Join national and local faith-based & secular leaders
advancing food security & sustainability!
  • Learn about successful models from diverse faith leaders in food justice
  • Bring home resources to grow your congregation's work for healthy food for all
  • Be inspired by projects communities of faith are advancing nationally and locally
  • Prepare to influence federal andlocal food policy
Who should attend?
Leaders engaged or interested in food projects with their faith community and farmers seeking to develop relationships with faith-based groups. Speakers will include farmers and faith-based leaders working together on innovative healthy food access projects. 

Cost : $55 

Click HERE for more info & a flyer


Questions? please call: 707-634-4672 or    
e-mail info@interfaithfood.org


Hands-On Healing Service with Ancient Indigenous Instruments



Wednesday, March 20, 2019
 7:00- 8:15 pm

Mt. Tam United Methodist Church
410 Sycamore Ave
Mill Valley, CA  
Fellowship Hall

*We're reunited** for the Hands-On Healing Service with Ancient Indigenous Instruments! We chant, pray, and offer hands-on healing with the sacred sounds of ancestral instruments played around and upon your luminous body to clear old energy and invoke the new energies that awaits! -Just like a Spring Cleaning! 

Suggested Donation: $20

Come raise the vibration with Prayer, Song, and Grace! 

Pastor Alison Hendley (Spiritual Director, Deacon),  René Jenkins (Ceremonial Sound Practitioner) &  Janet Janay Cipriani (Sound Healer) 

The Green Corner
 
Welcome to the Green Corner
      
March MICA Meeting


Tuesday, March 26, 2019
2:00 - 3:30 pm

First Presbyterian Church San Rafael
Geneva Room
1510 Fifth Ave. San Rafael
upstairs in back of church off of Mission St.
 
All are welcome.

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Climate Imperative: Reduce, Reuse and Sequester Greenhouse Gases


Join us to learn more about the cutting edge of carbon sequestration and the 'new carbon economy'.

Wednesday, March 27, 2019
7:00 - 9:00pm 
(doors open at 6:30 pm)

Marin Health and Wellness Campus, 
RM 109-110
3240 Kerner Blvd., San Rafael, CA

Speakers include: 

Roger Aines 
Chief Scientist, Atmospheric, Earth and Energy Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Clair Jahns 
Senior Advisor, U.S. Climate Alliance

Noah Deich 
Co-founder of Carbon 180

For more information and to register, 
click HERE.
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In Our Hands
How We Can Solve the Climate Crisis

Keynote speaker: Wilford Welch

Saturday, April 13, 1:15 - 2:15 pm 
Congregation Kol Shofar
215 Blackfield Dr. Tiburon

Wilford Welch tells us how we can reach across the generational gap between boomers and millennials to evolve together concrete actions we can take to address the disastrous climate change now taking place.


Community Events
Community Events are always displayed on our MIC website here .   Feel free to submit your own event at any time using the online form here . The deadline for submissions is the 10th and 25th of every month.  
 
 
March
April

If you have an event that has a deadline, please let us know when submitting event. Thanks!

For more community events click here

Community Announcements

ExtraFood.org is hiring!
 
ExtraFood.org is hiring! Does your work have meaning? Want to feel part of the solution? Join a growing nonprofit in Marin, help rescue excess fresh food for people in need, and immediately see the impact of your work as a Volunteer Coordinator or Food Recovery Coordinator. Job descriptions: tinyurl.com/ExtraFoodJob



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