CELEBRATION OF WORLD FAITHS

Religious Center at SIU-Edwarsville

March 22, 2003, 7-9pm

 

Welcome

REV. MIKE KREWSON

Chair, University Religious Council

 

Introduction of Spiritual Leaders

PROF. GREG FIELDS

Chair, Friends of the Religious Center

 

Welcome from Campus Ministers

REV. CHERIE HAMBLETON, United Campus Ministries

REV. PAUL BURDEN, Shurtleff Baptist Ministry

SISTER CLAUDIA CALZETTA,

Catholic Campus Ministry

Opening Ceremony

 

ISLAM

Call to Prayer

MR. NASIR AHMED

Islamic Information Center of St. Louis

 

JUDAISM

Havdalah, Ceremony for Ending of the Sabbath

MR. STEVEN C. LOW & daughter WENDY LOW

Jewish Federation of Southern Illinois,

SE Missouri, & W. Kentucky

CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY

FATHER STEPHEN JANOSKI

St. Jerome Catholic Church, Troy, Illinois

EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY

DEACON & EVANGELIST TIMMONS

Faith Miracle Temple, Florrisant, Missouri

 

Learning, Fellowship, and Food

 

Please feel free to visit the information tables of the faiths,

greet your neighbors, see the Religious Center , and have refreshments.

 

We will reconvene in the dome-room as the

Red Cedar Circle sings to begin the

Closing Ceremony.

 

Closing Ceremony

 

SiSiWiss MEDICINE SOCIETY of the Native Northwest Coast

SiSiWiss and Indian Shaker songs

MR. CHRIS SUTTON & the

RED CEDAR CIRCLE of Southern Illinois

THE BAHÁ'Í FAITH

MRS. ROSEMAY SLAVIK

Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'is of Edwardsville

HINDUISM

SWAMI NISHPAPANANDA,

Ramakrishna Order of India

The Vedanta Society of St. Louis

 

BUDDHISM

LAMA LOBSANG PALDEN

Gelugpa Tradition (Tibet)

 

Everyone is welcome to stay and visit after the Celebration.

For information about becoming a Friend of the Religious Center, speak with any

of the Friends (identified by blue nametags).

Thank you for attending!

 

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