SPECIAL INVITATION...  please join us on SUNDAY, September 11, 2011 for the
120th consecutive monthly Interfaith Prayer & Reflection Service....

Sunday, September 11, 2011
“COMPASSION AND UNCONDITIONAL LOVE: THE WAY TO PEACE”

Prelude: Forrest McDowell, Classical Guitar

Call for Prayer: Ib Hamide, Abu Bakr AsSiddiq Mosque

Welcome and Opening Remarks
    by Arun Narayan Toke', Hinduism and Amma's Eugene Satsang

Native American Prayer Songs
    by Nalen Hall and Thea Albright

Reflection: "Open for Prayer: Importance of Our Interfaith work from the Christian Perspective"
    by Rev. Dan Bryant, First Christian Church

The Charter for Compassion
    by Prof. Steven Shankman, UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies,
    Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace at the University of Oregon

“Wings of the Bodhisattva”
    by Hon. Ejo McMullen, Eugene Zendo

A Moment of Silence: A Silent Prayer for all the People who have suffered Since 9/11/2001

Musical Selections: "Hold Together"
    "Circle Chant" and "Grace of God" by the Eugene Peace Choir

On Compassion and Love: A Christian Perspective
    by Rev. Melanie Oommen, First Congregational United Church of Christ

Reflections on Compassion
    by Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Eugene Sikh Dharma

"Compassion as Prayer, Prayer as Peace" a short prayer, reading and song
    by Rabbi Boris Dolin, Temple Beth Israel

Reading:  “Selections from the Bahá’í Writings”
    by Rod Olson, Eugene Assembly of Bahá’í Faith

Closing Remarks and Youth Perspectives by Selina Fillinger, Class of 2012, South Eugene High School

Postlude: "The Prayer of St. Gregory" by Alan Hovhaness
       offered by John Jantzi, Organist and Sarah Viens, Trumpet

Altar Arrangements This Evening by Kara Steffensen, Esteban Camacho Steffensen and friends