CITY TO HOST INTERFAITH SERVICE DAY THURSDAY: CHRISTIANS, JEWS, MUSLIMS TO GATHER ON GREEN AFTER COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECTS
MAYOR HARP TO GREET TEENS, PROMOTE PEACE
New Haven – Mayor Toni N. Harp will be among those greeting visiting teenagers participating in Thursday’s Interfaith Service Day in the city. Jewish, Muslim, and Christian young people from Israel, Palestine, and the U.S. will be together to celebrate mutual respect, tolerance, and a willingness to work together to the benefit of the New Haven community.
Mayor Harp will visit with these young people on the New Haven Green, across Elm Street from the Ives Main Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, at 12:45 p.m.
Service projects to be tackled Thursday morning are in the following categories, should press outlets choose to attend any of these ahead-of-time:
- Sacred Cemetery: Care and Restoration
- Habitat for Humanity: Housing Construction
- Save the Sound: Beach Cleanup
- Meal preparation and distribution
- Peace Billboard Painting on New Haven Green
- Masjid Al Islam
- Christian Community Action
Local clergy members Rabbi Brian Immerman, from Congregation Mishkan Israel Hamden, Imam Omer Bajwa, a Yale Chaplin, Father Stephen Holton, from Christ Episcopal Church in New Haven; Reverend Bonita Grubbs, from New Haven’s Christian Community Action, Bruce A. Barrett, from IWagePeace.Org, and the Rev. Nicholas Porter, from JerusalemPeacebuilders.org will oversee tomorrow’s activities.
Financial support is provided by Barrett Outdoor Communications, Inc. and IWagePeace, Inc.
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