Neighborhood Interfaith Movement

Upcoming Forum - Creating a Community for All Ages

Friday, April 04, 2008

Ladies

NIM is proud to co-sponsor, along with NewCourtland Elder Services, The Ralston Center and Unitarian Universalist House, Living the Good Life in Northwest Philadelphia, a community forum on Friday, May 9th, 8:45AM-3PM, at NewCourtland Elder Services, 6950 Germantown Avenue.

This forum will introduce the concept of a community for all ages to a wide group of residents, businesses and organizations. It will be a wonderful venue for broad discussion by members of every segment of our community to identify the issues we face, devising paths to effective solutions, and encouraging civic engagement. Everyone is welcome!

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Message to Local Youth From Stephen Danley

Friday, December 21, 2007

Are you ready to grow as a leader? Are you committed to having an impact? Are you prepared to be challenged?

Do you know a high school student who would answer yes to those questions?

I’m proud to announce NIM’s Leadership Institute. Here at NIM we’ve been striving to create congregational friendly programs that deal with community needs as part of our youth initiative, Faith in the Future.

Michael Nutter to Speak at 5th Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service

Friday, November 16, 2007

Mayor-elect Michael Nutter is scheduled to speak at NIM’s fifth annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service, Tuesday, November 20, 7:30 p.m., at Mt. Airy Presbyterian Church, at the corner of Germantown Avenue and Mt. Pleasant Avenue.

Nutter will address the theme, “Coming Together to Create a Bright Future.”

The service will also feature choral and dance groups from local congregations and readings and prayers from many faiths.

For more information, please call the NIM offices at 215-843-5600.

Environmental Justice: The Time Is Now

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

When God saw how corrupt the earth was, for all flesh had corrupted its ways on earth, God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with lawlessness because of them: I am about to destroy them with the earth....

Angry about humankind’s behavior, God first reacted by destroying the earth. Then, after seeing the results, God determined, despite humankind’s tendency to evil, to never do so again. As the odor from Noah’s sacrifice reached the heavens, God realized that there was enough good in people to risk turning real control over the earth to them. I’m not sure I’d like to know how many times since that God has muttered, “Did I make a mistake when I changed my mind!” But I take heart in knowing that, as creatures fashioned in God’s image, we too can “change our minds.”

Bringing Peace to Philadelphia

Friday, September 28, 2007

By Alexandra Patterson, NIM Early Learning Resource Center Coordinator

Violence is everyone’s issue. With murder rates rising in the city of Philadelphia and violence increasing in everyone’s neighborhood it’s time for each of us to take the responsibility of creating peace.

For those of us involved in the lives of children, we can begin making a difference by teaching them kindness and compassion. As childhood is the perfect time to teach valuable skills like adding or reading, it is also the perfect time to teach children to live peaceably with others. Children of the twenty first century experience violence in many ways; they see it on TV and in movies, they reenact it through video games and gun play, they hear about it in their homes and at school. It is our responsibility as caring adults in the lives of children to help them deal with the violence they see and hear and to support them in developing non violent strategies for solving problems.

Living With Contradiction – but Not Without a Fight

Thursday, September 06, 2007

by Executive Director George Stern

In what was surely a paroxysm of paradox, Moses told the Israelites (Deuteronomy 15:1-11):

There shall be no needy among you—since the Eternal your God will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as a hereditary portion—if only you heed the Eternal your God and take care to keep all this Instruction that I enjoin upon you this day…. If, however, there is a needy person among you, one of your kinsmen in any of your settlements in the land that the Eternal your God is giving you, do not harden your heart and shut your hand against your needy kinsman. Rather, you must open your hand and lend him sufficient for whatever he needs.… Give to him readily and have no regrets when you do so, for in return the Eternal your God will bless you in all your efforts and in all your undertakings. For there will never cease to be needy ones in your land, which is why I command you: open your hand to the poor and needy kinsman in your land.

I have to think that some of the Hebrews listening must have rolled their eyes at that speech. Indeed, Moses himself must have wondered, “Did I really just say that?”

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Living the Good Life in Northwest Philadelphia: Creating a Community for All Ages

May 9, 2008

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Parenting Groups: General audience - Thursdays 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Incentives include transportation tokens, giveaways, completion certificates, free dinner and child care. Contact Annette (x111) or Juanita (116).

What is NIM?

The Neighborhood Interfaith Movement (NIM) is a nonprofit, non-sectarian organization that since 1969 has assisted children, families, and vulnerable and older adults. Acting in alliance with NIM's 53 Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Unitarian, and Muslim congregations and faith institutions, volunteers and professionals work to fulfill NIM's mission "to build a more just and sensitive community through advocacy and service."