Open International Interfaith Ministry
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The Interfaith Ministry
Celebrating All traditions and Spiritual Paths
The Open International Interfaith Ministry is an interfaith community offering spiritual services, educational programs, and pastoral ministrations for persons of all religious traditions. We affirm that God is love and that there are many paths to God. We believe that prejudice and intolerance have no place in spiritual practice. We welcome those who desire to understand experiences of psyche and spirit, and wish to dedicate themselves to personal spiritual growth and psychic development in an atmosphere of respect, informed free-thought and enquiry.
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Celebrating all religious traditions
Our Ministry is inclusive, celebrating all religious traditions and diverse approaches to spirituality and understanding God. When we look at the beautiful, diverse world that God has created for us to live in, it is clear to us that God is a God of diversity. There is not just one type of tree, or one type of bird, or one type of flower, or one type of person. The world is populated with a multitude of forms which are trees, and birds, and flowers, and people in all shapes, sizes, and colour. This diversity makes the world more beautiful. If we believe that God is infinite, then one place to begin to understand God is to embrace the knowledge that in this diverse and beautiful world created by God, it is only natural that God should manifest the message of unconditional love in many ways to many peoples. There is one God, but it is a God of many faces. We in the interfaith ministry celebrate these many faces of God represented by different religious traditions and rejoice that we have been given such a beautiful and diverse world. We express this truth with the phrase, "The paths are many, the truth is one. Love thy neighbour." Rev. Barry King, Ph.D. |
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We are Intefaith in Perspective
Our Ministry is interfaith in perspective and encourages participation by persons from all faiths and traditions. At any meeting or service, you may find Christian Priests, Ministers, Jewish Rabbis, Hindu Swamis, Sikhs, Buddhist Lamas, Jain Monks, Spiritualist Ministers, Native Medicine Men and others sharing the platform. Most people attending our services and activities bring to them their connection to their own faith and traditions. If one phrase reflects the nature of the Ministry it is: The Paths are Many, the Truth is One: Love the Neighbour.
We are a community, not a religion. The ministry is neither a sect nor a cult, nor part of a particular world religion. We have created no dogmas or creeds and give place to no single figure or sole religious authority in matters of faith. We arose out of a need to promote an atmosphere of informed and free thought and enquiry where individuals could explore their understanding of Spirity and Spirituality.
Another valuable service the Interfaith Ministry performs is the validations of people's experiences with Spirit and the psychic world. As a community, we are strong, not only because of the things which we believe in common, but also because of the differences in our individual understanding.
There are a number of common denominators which unite us in the Interfaith Ministry. One is our desire to eliminate intolerance and prejudice in spiritual practice. Another is our readiness to testify to the reality of the Spiritual world and of the subtle faculties of psychic and Spiritual vision through which it may be perceived. Our activities help people find their own personal understanding and proofs as to the reality and nature of Spirit and the Spirit world.
Our Ministry is interfaith in perspective and encourages participation by persons from all faiths and traditions. At any meeting or service, you may find Christian Priests, Ministers, Jewish Rabbis, Hindu Swamis, Sikhs, Buddhist Lamas, Jain Monks, Spiritualist Ministers, Native Medicine Men and others sharing the platform. Most people attending our services and activities bring to them their connection to their own faith and traditions. If one phrase reflects the nature of the Ministry it is: The Paths are Many, the Truth is One: Love the Neighbour.
We are a community, not a religion. The ministry is neither a sect nor a cult, nor part of a particular world religion. We have created no dogmas or creeds and give place to no single figure or sole religious authority in matters of faith. We arose out of a need to promote an atmosphere of informed and free thought and enquiry where individuals could explore their understanding of Spirity and Spirituality.
Another valuable service the Interfaith Ministry performs is the validations of people's experiences with Spirit and the psychic world. As a community, we are strong, not only because of the things which we believe in common, but also because of the differences in our individual understanding.
There are a number of common denominators which unite us in the Interfaith Ministry. One is our desire to eliminate intolerance and prejudice in spiritual practice. Another is our readiness to testify to the reality of the Spiritual world and of the subtle faculties of psychic and Spiritual vision through which it may be perceived. Our activities help people find their own personal understanding and proofs as to the reality and nature of Spirit and the Spirit world.
