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Engage your neighbors
This kit contains a variety of resources to help as you engage with neighbors of faiths other than your own, or prepare to do so. It contains “how to do it” sorts of pieces, examples of what others have done, as well as more reflective materials on interfaith relationship as an integral part of being faithful followers of Jesus Christ.
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Using the Toolkit

Elizabeth Peterson and Fargie Nasiep of Cape Town, South Africa, visiting a church in the United States. Photo by David P. Young
It is okay to approach interfaith relations by diving in first and learning as you go, or by studying first and then stepping into engagement. We hope that you will find useful tools here for either approach.
The Interfaith Toolkit has been designed to be flexible. New models of what Presbyterians are doing will be added as you tell us about them. Individual “tools” will be updated, or deleted if not found useful. All the “tools” in this kit are available to be printed from this Web site, and to be used freely.

Zainab Ampatuan and Peggy Thomas develop a friendship. Photo by David P. Young
The toolkit is the work of staff members serving a number of churches in the United States, and particularly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ. The Handbook on Faithful Living Workshops is the result of an ecumenical project involving four local communities in the United States, conducted by Jay T. Rock, and funded by the Greenville Foundation and the UCC/Disciples of Christ. Material from other sources, including an interfaith study guide created for Disciples and a resource on interfaith dialogue from the United Church of Christ, is clearly marked so that you can use it with proper credit to its creators. |
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