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Congregation Leaders:
Help Us To Help You Share  Your Sacred Online Worship With Others!
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As civic leaders took aggressive action to stem the tide of exponentially growing illness and death, overnight, the necessary and responsible aggressive response to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic cast our planet into precautionary isolation. The impact this new reality has had on every member of the human family and sector of society has defied imagination. Religious communities, by their very nature, are organic hubs of interpersonal connectivity. For so many, overwhelmed by loneliness and the stresses of life, their church, synagogue, mosque and temple are the home and family upon which they depend. Disruption to the life of these havens of hope has taken a significant spiritual and emotional toll on their most vulnerable members. The San Francisco Interfaith Council (SFIC) acknowledges and expresses deep gratitude to our City's faith leaders, most especially, for their cooperation in immediately complying with SF Department of Public Health orders limiting assemblies and initiating social distancing measures, to protect their faithful and worshiping communities. Each, in their own way, true to their teachings and traditions, has re-created community in the midst of isolation. In addition to embracing technological tools to meet and worship virtually, their ramped-up efforts to reach out and check in with each of their members, in particular, the elderly, homebound, disabled and financially at risk, have been extraordinary. 

As our Abrahamic sisters and brothers from the  Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths quickly approach Easter, Passover and Ramadan, religious observances that offer hope and the message of deliverance from oppression and temporal bondage, COVID-19 (Coronavirus) social distancing precautions will require a very different kind of observance in 2020. In an effort to help congregations better engage their faithful, and those of other traditions, in the rich worship of these sacred observances, the San Francisco Interfaith Council (SFIC) is creating a portal with links to these sacred holy day online services, which it will disseminate to its 5,000
e-subscribers. Your participation is as simple and easy as forwarding a link.

WILL YOUR CONGREGATION
BE LIVE STREAMING  EASTER, PASSOVER, RAMADAN
OR OTHER SIGNIFICANT UPCOMING WORSHIP SERVICES? 

IF SO, AND YOU WOULD YOU LIKE TO INVITE SAN FRANCISCO'S 
GREATER INTERFAITH COMMUNITY TO JOIN YOU ONLINE,
PLEASE FORWARD THE LINK TO YOUR SPECIAL HOLY DAY ONLINE WORSHIP SERVICE 
TO THE SAN FRANCISCO INTERFAITH COUNCIL:




Sunday, March 29, 2020


Latest Coronavirus Facts  Here





What SF Communities of Faith
Are Doing and Saying About the Coronavirus
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We invite you to review these best practices with care and, as appropriate, use them as examples to share with your faithful.



If you have already forwarded a communication to the SFIC and have had a recent update, please email your update to Cynthia Zamboukos at [email protected] so we may refresh the SFIC website.

As these links live on the SFIC website, we encourage you to continue forwarding any and all like communications you post on your respective websites and social media platforms to:

SFIC Program/Administrative Associate
Cynthia Zamboukos

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Thank you!








The  San Francisco Interfaith Council is a Cooperation Circle