MONADNOCK INTERFAITH PROJECT is a non-profit coalition of congregations, organizations, and individuals from the Monadnock region of southern New Hampshire. We are wholehearted individuals working together to foster interfaith community, understanding, and systemic change that benefits our region. Through the Monadnock Interfaith Project (MIP), people come together to put faith into action.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
–Margaret Mead
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Your donation will support MIP’s community organizing around our priority areas of Mental Health, Housing, and more. And it will support the building of a broad and resilient interfaith community in our region.
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INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS ASPIRE TO…
* Engage as an open-hearted member
* Be involved with interfaith activity
* Donate annually
* Bring others along in key moments, and
* Participate in collective decision-making
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Updates
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MIP’s Tom Julius Receives Rotary Club Award
Craig Stockwell presents the Award to Tom Julius
At their breakfast meeting on Thursday, April 9, the Keene Elm City Rotary Club awarded MIP’s Chair Tom Julius the Paul Harris Fellowship Recognition for his outstanding service to the community. Through MIP Tom has formed deep relationships, played a significant leadership role in the housing campaign, and overall led with wisdom, strategy, deep commitment and thoughtfulness. In addition to leading MIP, Tom, a retired teacher of both primary school and at Antioch University, is also active with the United Way, Monadnock Outdoors, and more. Through diligent and stealthy coordination, Tom’s wife Barbara Bryce and MIP’s Angela Pape managed to coerce a roomful of Tom’s closest friends out of their beds early on Thursday morning and into the room as surprise witnesses to this much deserved award.
The Keene Elm City Rotary Club awards Paul Harris Fellowship Recognition to a person whose life, vocation and behavior demonstrates, embodies and represents the Rotary values and spirit of humanitarianism and actions that contribute toward building peace and human understanding. It honors the founder of Rotary, Paul Harris. The nominee’s impact must be exceptional and clearly reflected through their vocation and also through their impact on the broader community, whether local, national or international.
VISITING LOCAL FAITH COMMUNITIES
Our MIP intern, Alaria Clauss, is organizing family visits to local faith communities to build interfaith understanding in the Monadnock region.
The dates are:
- Friday, February 6, 7pm, Shabbat, Jewish Service at Congregation Ahavas Achim, 84 Hastings Avenue, Keene
- Sunday, March 8, 10am Sunday Service, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Keene, 130 Summit Road, Keene
- Saturday, March 21, 2pm, Naw-Rúz, Baha’i New Year Celebration at the Dublin Inn, 1265 Main Street, Dublin
- Sunday, March 29, 10am, Palm Sunday, United Church of Christ Keene, 23 Central Square, Keene
- Wednesday, April 8, 6pm, Introduction to Islam, Alliance Room, Keene Unitarian Universalist Church, 69 Washington St., Keene
- Sunday, April 26, 10am. Keene Unitarian Universalist Church, 69 Washington St., Keene
Other dates may be added.
Please fill out this Interest Form to receive more information about the visits and material about the faith traditions.
Everyone is welcome. We especially encourage youth and families to take advantage of this educational opportunity.
We will gather just prior to the service to check in and enter together.
For more information: Contact Alaria Clauss alaria.clauss12@gmail.com or 603-777-7188
An Introduction to Islam with Keene’s Dr. Mohammad Saleh
Join MIP for… An Introduction to Islam with Keene’s own Dr. Mohammad Saleh, Wednesday, April 8, 6pm
Alliance Room at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 69 Washington Street, Keene
Please fill out this Interest Form to receive more information about the visits and material about the faith traditions. Everyone is welcome.
We especially encourage youth and families to take advantage of this educational opportunity.
Stay tuned for more events! Contact Alaria Clauss for information: alaria.clauss12@gmail.com or 603-777-7188
