Print and Audiovisual Resources

Creating Interfaith Community

Adult text and leader's guide
Text by Marston Speight
Leader's guide by Jacob and Glory Dharmaraj

This book calls us to create an interfaith community with all people from the many different religious groups in the United States.

The study guide offers group activities to help a leader bring the material in the text into our community for action and reflection.

The leader's guide is designed for four two-hour sessions and can be modified for other time frames.

Seven Friends-Seven Faiths

Children's storybook
By Martha Bettis Gee

This storybook with photo cubes tells of children of different faiths and how they celebrate their faith.

Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Baha'i children explain to those of other faiths what their holidays mean.

The nine photo cubes, which are a put-together project, illustrate the various holidays.

Seven Friends-Seven Faiths: Teacher's guide

Children's study leader's guide
By Martha Bettis Gee

This guide helps children learn about our rich interfaith community by learning about the holidays of different faiths, including our own.

It offers three sessions for children from ages 6 through 12 and an intergenerational experience including games, recipes and songs.

Each session begins with worship and Bible study and has a wide variety of activities for different age levels.

Who is that kid next door? Creating Interfaith Community

Youth book and leader's guide
By Kelly Martini

Younger Christians are growing up in an increasingly interreligious world. They go to school and live in communities with others from Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, and other faiths. They see religious conflicts in the news on a daily basis. And they question whether their Christian faith is mature enough to engage in dialogue and live in harmony with those of other faiths.

This is a book of stories told by youth from a variety of religious backgrounds about quests for peace and justice in our world through which they learn about each other.

These stories will engage youth in discussions on interfaith issues, on personal faith journeys as Christians, and on the quest to live with others in an interreligious community. This resource can be used in a classroom, retreat or youth group setting.

Creating Interfaith Community

A four-page reprint in Korean and Spanish which appeared in the March/April editions of the United Methodists in Service and El Interprete gives a summary of the 2003 mission study.

Crossing Borders Video

This 45-minute video introduces the 2003-2004 Mission Studies which are:

• Exodus: The Journey to Freedom
• Mexico: Labyrinth of Faith
• Creating Interfaith Community

Video has three 20 minute segments with discussion guides.

New World Outlook Special Issue on Creating Interfaith Community March/April 2003

Response Special Issue on Mission Studies: Exodus, Mexico, and Creating Interfaith Community May 2003

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