Five years ago, a fledgling interfaith event geared toward younger people drew about forty young adults and their advisers. Nowadays, the Oklahoma Convention of Churches’ annual Interfaith Adolescents excursion has attracted up to 300 people, filling at least four constitution buses that journey to three houses of worship or cultural venues inside the metro region. The Rev.
William Tabbernee said the Young People tour was prepared by the Convention of Church Buildings’ Religions United Committee and held for several years before he became the business enterprise’s executive director in 2011. The excursion was no longer held consecutively before his involvement, but he decided it might be helpful to offer it as an annual event. The excursion’s boom is a superb indication that human beings’ interest in religions and cultures other than their own has been piqued, Tabbernee said.
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Tabbernee stated the tour was initially created to coincide with International Day of Peace, on occasion unofficially known as World Peace Day, on Sept. 21. But, he and other interfaith leaders stated the tour is exceptionally Well-timed because some faith traditions are being maligned or misrepresented via presidential election rhetoric and different manner. They said Schooling about different faith ideals and homes of worship is key to dispelling myths. We’re changing perceptions, one kid at a time, and overcoming stereotypes one youngster at a time,” Tabbernee said.
Cultural variations
The subsequent excursion is set for Sept. 25 and could feature stops at East 6th Road Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 1139 NE 6; Masjid Mu’min Mosque, 1322 NE 23; and Vien-Giac Buddhist Temple, 5101 NE 36. Picture—A church chief talks to youths and their advisers during a visit to St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral as part of the Oklahoma Convention of Churches’ 2015 Interfaith Teens excursion in Oklahoma Town.
[Photo provided] College students pay attention to Rabbi Vered Harris inside the sanctuary at Temple B’nai Israel throughout the Oklahoma Conference of Churches’ 2013 Interfaith Teens tour in Oklahoma Metropolis. [Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman Archives] Image – Dr. Riaz Ahmad, proper, prays at the same time as, behind him, humans of various religions tour Masjid An-Nasr, the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma Metropolis’s mosque at some point of the Oklahoma Convention of Church buildings’ 2011 Interfaith Adolescents excursion in Oklahoma Metropolis. [The Oklahoman Archives photo]
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Previous excursions have included Frontline Church-downtown Oklahoma City, Grand Mosque, Temple B’nai Israel, Mayflower Congregational United Church of Christ, Sikh Gurdwara of Oklahoma Town, St. John Missionary Baptist Church, Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma Metropolis’s mosque, Edmond Baha’i faith Middle, St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, the Hindu Temple of Oklahoma City and St. George Greek Orthodox Church.
