The Interfaith Committee Report 

June 14, 2007

 

The Interfaith/International Committee Collaboration

 

The International and Interfaith committees will be working together to create position papers introducing the Urantia Book to people of the Country being visited by International. One possibility is China. The paper for China can be written in English as there is more people that speak English in China than in the entire United States.

 

We’re also discussing the possibility of replicating what was done with the Urdu translation. The International Committee will let it be known which county will be visited, the language spoken, and the papers to be translated. Since it takes approximately 10 years for every translation, translating a subset of papers can be very helpful to those people who are working so hard to get the book into other countries.

 

We will be in planning sessions during the Summer Study Session in Chicago. We will also be participating in a working retreat at the home of Gard Jameson in September. I have asked several people outside the Interfaith Committee, who are passionate about Interfaith, to work with us as adjuncts.

 

We believe this collaborative work with International could be the very essence of Urantia Interfaith. The Interfaith Committee has been trying to find our way and our worth on the Executive Committee – I believe this work will be fruitful 

 

Personal commitment to Interfaith

 

As Committee Chair on Interfaith, I have committed myself to learn and participate. I have been nominated and have accepted a position on the Board of Directors for NAIN, North American Interfaith Network, and will be the North American Conference Chair in Kansas City in 2009 and may use the new Unity Conference Center.

 

I’m co-chair for the Table of Faiths luncheon (a fund raiser) that is sponsored by the Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council. We’re expecting close to 1,000 people at this event in November.

 

Interfaith is growing and I’d like us to be a major part of it.