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Our 2009 theme continues to be "One Nation under God". Our religious leaders will seek guidance and wisdom from their respective faiths and our Civil servants and community leaders will echo the same sentiment and suggest ways in which we as individuals can work toward creating and sustaining cohesive and thriving local communities.
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO GET LARGER VERSION. NOTE ABOUT THE IMAGE : (39 Members from the audience were asked to step up on the podium forming 13 groups of 3 each, each individual was asked to dare accept the randomly assigned faith, and then read one line from the assigned scripture, the participants had no idea what is coming up, but they sure enjoyed reading scriptures from the assigned faith and loved it.. for example, each one of the 39 individuals were given to read scriptures from a faith other than their own, and the selection was random. They all realized the the wisdom of each faith was beautiful - See all the pics in the left panel, again clicking on the image enlarges the picture)Event : 5th Annual Unity Day USA
Date : 5:00 PM, Sunday, September 6, 2009
Place : Unity Church of Dallas,
Add : 6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, Texas 75230
Map : Click here for map
Call : Mike Ghouse (214) 325-1916
email : UnitydayUSA@gmail.com
web : http://www.unitydayusa.com/
rsvp : confirmattendance@gmail.com
Our 2009 theme continues to be "One Nation under God". Our religious leaders will seek guidance and wisdom from their respective faiths and our Civil servants and community leaders will echo the same sentiment and suggest ways in which we as individuals can work toward creating and sustaining cohesive and thriving local communities.Mike Ghouse, President of the organizations announced. “This is an annual event for all Americans to come together and look to each other as American and nothing but American. We will rededicate our pledge to the safety and security of our nation”.
The American Muslims have taken this initiative to remember one of the greatest tragedies in the history of our nation by bringing about a positive change to the 9/11 event. We are committed to make this day, the Sunday before 9/11, a day of Unity of Americans to pledge to the peace, unity and prosperity of our nation and the humanity.
As Americans we uphold, protect, defend and celebrate the values enshrined in our constitution. All our faiths reinforce the creed of "One Nation under God, with liberty and justice for all."
A. 90 Organizations participated
B. News Media
C. Religious Leaders Participated
D. Mayors & Civic Leaders
E. Public Comments
F. Power Point Presentation
G. 2005 Album
H. 2006 Album
I. 2008 Album
God Bless America
Information for the previous years
http://911unitydayusa.blogspot.com/2009/07/v-annual-unity-day-usa.html
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ACCOMODATING JEWS
ReplyDeleteAll the four events of the Foundation for Pluralism and the world Muslim Congress are set for Sunday evenings;
1) Thanksgiving Celebration Since 1993
2) UnityDay USA - Since 2005
3) Holocaust & Genocides Since 2007
4) Religious Wedding -from 2010
Saturday was the most preferre days, but it is Sabbath day for our Jewish friends and hence we chose Sunday to accomodate our Jewish friends.
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ACCOMODATING OUR CHRISTIAN & HINDU FRIENDS
ReplyDeleteThe nature of our events could be carried out on Sunday Mornings, but we could not do that time as well, as most Christians and Hindus are in their places of worship.
Sunday evening by far has worked out best and in the last several years it has run fairly smoothly.
ACCOMODATING MUSLIMS
ReplyDeleteWhy hold the event during Ramadan? I was asked to change the date by many a Muslims who wanted to participate.
The event is related with 9/11 and we have to do it Sunday before 9/11 - a tradition has been established for the last five years. The issue was fasting, and the two prayers during our event.
This year and for the next two years, we have accomodated the late afternoon prayers at 5:19 to be completed by 5:29, and we will start the program at 5:35 PM, while other people can mix and mingle and get seated during that time.
Then the breaking of fast is set at 7:49, we will conclude the program at 7:40 and give a 5 minutes talk on Ramdan PM prior to serving refreshments to all.
The Unity Church has lent us the rooms for Muslim prayers, a booklet will be made about the ritual and recitational words of the prayers... every one is welcome to experience the prayer.