COOPERATION CIRCLES
Members who choose to gather together around areas of passionate interest and inspired service are invited to create a Cooperation Circle to focus upon a specific endeavor.
The Guiding Council also creates Cooperation Circles as needed.
For example, the GC has created a Member's Circle* and a Cornerstone Circle.**
All Cooperation Circles report to the GC and their individual purpose is in alignment with the Interfaith Community Church Vision, Mission and Goal.
There is also a Ministerial Circle, comprised of our three ministers, Rev. Debra Lajimoderie, Jamal Rahman and Karen Lindquist, supported by Associate Ministers, who serve in unison with the Guiding Council -- but with a specific focus to reflect, contemplate, protect and preserve the spiritual core of our community.
*Member's Circle
The Member's Circle inspires membership, welcomes new members, and helps to facilitate communication between members through email groups, directory and other means as yet to be discovered. The Member's Circle may be inspired to create special member gatherings and may choose to honor certain members whose volunteer dedication is worthy of merit. There is an annual Member's Meeting in which the Member's Circle participate and work with the Guiding Council to contact members for this important occassion. The Member's Circle reports to the Guiding Council.
**Cornerstone Circle
The Cornerstone Circle is the foundational and preservation circle of our community. Members with expertise in the area of historic building preservation. building maintainence, finances and who are committed to the lifelong stewardship of our community serve in this circle. The Cornerstone Circle reports to the Guiding Council.
United Religions Initiative Circle
Members of Interfaith Community Church co-created a URI Cooperation Circle in 1999 and signed the URI Charter in 2000. We call ourselves "Interfaith Circle of Love" URI CC.
Follow this link to view the webpage:
http://interfaithcommunitychurch.org/index.php/about-icc/united-religions-initiative/
We participate in an annual fall interfaith-interspiritual gathering where, in a spirit of celebration and prayer, we share a story, song, prayer or poem. We continue a tradition begun in 1986 by The Interfaith Network (then it was The Interfaith Council of WA.)
We offer an annual public gathering at Green Lake with music, song, chant followed by a walk around Green Lake. This is a popular and well attended gathering. We have had many titles for the gathering, most recently: Walking Meditation ~ Creating a Culture of Peace. We have also added a pre-event dialogue at the library across from the park in partnership with Northwest Interfaith Community Outreach and Compassionate Action Network.
For the last two years, our URI CC focused upon 'ending religiously motivate violence' in our communities.