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The Interfaith Youth Initiative (IFYI) 2008: Be the Change!
Save the date! July 13-20, 2008 Nominate youth and young adults today!
IFYI is a powerful and transformative experience for teens (ages 15 -18), as well as college and graduate students serving as mentors and staff. This year’s theme is "Be the Change You Wish to See in the World." Together we will interpret and embody Mahatma Gandhi's spiritual vision of justice and peace, while living out Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “Beloved Community.”
IFYI has five Core Values: Building Bridges, Engaging Faith, Training Leaders, Making Peace, and Serving Others. Participants explore and embrace their own leadership and peacemaking styles, becoming agents of positive social transformation in their schools, communities, and congregations.
This program offers a dynamic mix of community building, fun social activities, workshops, service experiences, and learning trips which engage urban and suburban realities. Youth express their visions of faith, justice, and peace through visual art, poetry/spoken word, theological reflection, dance, drama, and film.
All are welcome at IFYI! Youth and staff come from diverse religious backgrounds and grow more deeply in their own religious traditions through dialogue and interaction with others. Leadership (currently!) comes from the Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Unitarian Universalist faith traditions. Men and women are housed in separate staffed areas of the school, or if desired may commute from home. All religious and dietary needs will be accommodated.
Come join us in the heart of Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, for this eight-day immersion experience, followed by ongoing opportunities during the academic year for mentoring, retreats, and support for spiritual, academic, and professional pursuits.
For more information contact Alex Levering Kern, Megan Lynes, or LaToya Staine Carriker at IFYI@coopmet.org or 617-244-3650.
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CMM 474 Centre Street Newton, MA 02458 Phone: 617-244-3650
email:
info@coopmet.org Alexander Levering Kern, Executive Director:
akern@coopmet.org
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