April, 2010

Interfaith Calendar

The Interfaith Initiative calendar includes information on major faith tradition holidays/holydays in addition to local interfaith events. The calendar is updated several times a month - so check back often.

BIG SUNDAY – A SERVICE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION

A MESSAGE FROM THE BIG SUNDAY COORDINATOR

Big Sunday is a huge annual festival of volunteering that takes place throughout Southern California, this year on May 1st and 2nd. Every year for Big Sunday Weekend we organize hundreds of projects to benefit lots of different organizations, parks, schools, and communities. We like to say that there is some way for everyone to help someone else, and we like our list of projects to reflect that.

Big Sunday has no political or religious affiliation but faith communities are encouraged to work together. Our mission is more than just community service - it's about community building through community service, and our goal is to see volunteers all around Southern California helping alongside all different kinds of people. For more information, and photos and stories from past Big Sundays, please visit our website, www.bigsunday.org

There has been a lot of fantastic energy in the Santa Barbara area this year for Big Sunday. We have met with several very enthusiastic student groups at UCSB, and have been speaking with a number of other community leaders about bringing their volunteers out on Big Sunday Weekend. This is great, but we need more projects for this throng of volunteers to participate in! If you know of a great nonprofit organization or school or park or shelter that could benefit from Big Sunday Weekend, we would love to help them submit an application for a project, but time is running out! Please have them call Dylan at (323) 549-9944.

TO SEE PROJECTS IN SANTA BARBARA AND GOLETA GO TO http://my.bigsunday.org

We are also in need of Project Captains to make these projects happen! Captains are volunteer leaders that take ownership of the project from start to finish, and ensure that the volunteers are happy, busy, and safe. Being a Captain can be a big job or small job, depending on the project, but it will surely be amazingly gratifying, and fun! Captains, please call Dylan Gasperik, Big Sunday Outreach & Captain's Coordinator at (323) 549-9944 ext. 101

Please visit our website http://interfaithinitiativesbc.org Click on the calendar "details" link to see additional information regarding an event. Send an email message to terre@interfaithinitiativesbc.org to have your Interfaith event listed online.

This calendar was sent to 878 recipients in the Santa Barbara area.