We hope you and your family had a nice holiday and that you may be able to help with two specific (and easy) projects. Now that our shelter season has officially launched, and with wet and cold weather upon us we NEED YOUR HELP to do two simple things that can expand our network […]
Come join us for a tour of San Francisco South Bay urban agriculture and social/environmental collaborations happening right in our backyard! We’ll visit inspiring sites, plant trees and gather for a healthy vegan lunch while we get to know each other and hear moving stories about great projects. Together we’ll learn more about how we […]
The Winter Faith Collaborative is an interfaith movement formed to serve, shelter and advocate for the houseless community in Santa Clara County. In our first two seasons we served over 700 individuals. Consider these sobering facts: There are over 7300 unhoused in Santa Clara County. We sorely lack enough shelter beds. Space for families and […]
FEAST OF SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS Sunday, January 28, 12:00 noon, at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Waverley at Homer, Palo Alto: Gregorian Mass - Solemnity of our parish patron saint. CANDLEMAS Friday, February 2, 8:00 p.m, at St. Thomas Aquinas Church - Candlelight procession and Solemn High Latin Mass in the Extraordinary Form. On Candlemas […]
Sunday, January 28, 2018 5pm Venerable JianHu, Abbot of Chung Tai Zen Center, and Rabbi Hugh Seid-Valencia, Community Engagement Director, Addison-Penzak Jewish Community Center will be in dialogue on: “When Bad Things Happen to Good People: Jewish and Buddhist Perspectives” This dialogue is part of A Day of Jewish Learning from 1:00-6:30pm, and SiVIC friends are […]
The Gauntlet has been thrown down and the Compassion Games World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition is set to begin on February 1st! The World Interfaith Harmony Week was first proposed at the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2010 by H.M. King Abdullah II of Jordan. Just under a month later, on October 20, 2010, […]
In 2010 the United Nations established “World Interfaith Harmony Week as a way to promote harmony between all peoples regardless of their faith.” In that spirit we have organized a meet up where we can all talk about and share our faith traditions in the spirit of openness. You are welcome to bring ethnic finger […]
