All are welcome on Friday August 23rd from 5:30-10:00 p.m. for music by Sunny Taylor, Fields and Fortresses, and Shiny Penny; Brava's Food Trucks, yard games and a bouncy house. There will also be a few local non-profits on site to share what they do in our community and an opportunity to make and take a Blessing Bag for the homeless. Free entry, free parking and free activities. The only cost is the Brava's Food Trucks.
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The concert is Friday, August 23, 2019. St. Stephen Church Choir, Louisville, KY performs. Workshop sessions are Saturday, August 24, 2019. Worship service is on Sunday, August 25 at 8 a.m. and 11 a.m.
On August 23rd, the Ripple Effect Choir is in concert at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary at First Congregational United Church of Christ. These local musicians perform everything from spirituals to pop music. Suggested donation is $10. This is one of many concerts this year to help the group achieve its goal of getting to Carnegie Hall. Donations are encouraged.
This is a parish-wide yard sale and annual fundraiser to support St. Margaret Mary ministries.
All are welcome to City Wide Taizé Service: Caring for God's Creation. Taizé worship involves sung and chanted prayers, meditation, periods of silence, liturgical readings, and icons as practiced at Taizé, a monastic community located in France and founded in the 1940s. Internationally recognized, the community and its worship have an ecumenical focus on being a sign of reconciliation between separated peoples.
All are welcome to experience St. George's Christian heritage of faith, hospitality, Middle Eastern cuisine, music and crafts from their roots in the Holy Land. The festival includes a live band, ethnic dances, children’s carnival, bounce houses, games, and food booths offering lamb shanks, falafel, gyros, kafta, grape leaves, pastries, honey balls and more. New this year: indoor vendor marketplace and daily Silent Auction. Participants can take a guided tour to learn about the church’s Byzantine architecture, Greek iconography, and the Orthodox faith. Service animals only.
The seventh annual Indy Festival of Faiths is the Midwest’s biggest one-day celebration of the diversity of belief and unity of spirit. More than a hundred congregations and community groups will display how they live the festival’s theme: “Embracing Diversity.” It’s a unique opportunity to talk to neighbor sin Central Indiana and to learn about various religious traditions. Children can spend the afternoon exploring the Play Zone, learning about how other cultures’ kids have fun.
The Indiana Interchurch Center and Gallery hosts an exhibition of the Migrant Quilt Project. The project began when Jody Ipsen learned that a record 282 people died while trying to cross the border in the Tucson Sector between 2004 and 2005. She has worked individually and with others to document every person who died in the Tucson sector of the desert since the year 2000. "Los Desconosidos," the unknown ones, along with those whose names are known, are listed on a quilt each year. The exhibit may be seen August 5 – September 26 at the IIC Gallery, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday – Friday.
Love Your Neighbor: Mapping the Mapleton Fall Creek Neighborhood features Paula Means, Chair of Mapleton Fall Creek Community Development Corp., who will lead an exploration and discussion of the Mapleton Fall Creek neighborhood: partnerships, relationships, assumptions, policies, housing, schools, businesses, transportation, and more. Trinity Episcopal Church is hosting a conversation with its congregation and the broader community, open to anyone who is interested.
Leaders and activists from central Indiana’s nonprofit, faith and government sectors are invited to “Uncomfortable Truths, Healing Impact” at the Faith & Action Project’s fourth annual fall event on October 1, 2019. Featured guest Van Jones, TV commentator and author of books addressing issues from economics to race, will address the audience and then join a panel of local business and faith leaders for a conversation that delves into poverty’s foundations and thoughtful solutions.