Looking for ways to bring new ideas into your teaching and preaching to trouble the waters and heal the world of your community of faith? Auburn recommends a focus on World Population Day, the July 11 United Nations observance that turns our focus to the collective 6,830,400,000 people on earth.

Learn more about World Population Day by clicking here.  The focus of this year’s  is on data and tracking and click here to learn more about how this can help your community. 

World Population can help bring a focus on the critical need to support poverty initiatives around the world and in your community. Be sure to click here to learn more about Auburn resources for your next discussion on poverty and the current chasm between poverty and wealth.

And as World Population Day turns our attention to our neighbors around the world, it’s the perfect week to tell faith communities about an upcoming documentary they don’t want to miss. Click here to learn more about A Small Act and its upcoming July premiere on HBO. Doing some summer planning for next year’s discussions? A Small Act is an excellent story to bring into your community to get them thinking about their small acts that can create powerful change in the world.

With the World Cup on everyone’s mind it is the perfect time to talk about the unifying role of sports in bringing people together. Another sports event premieres this week - Philiadelphia is this year’s home of the American Muslim celebration of Riyaadah. the annual Islamic sporting event that celebrates sports and culture. Click here to learn the history of Riyaadah and here for details of how team and individual sports become a way to further the cultural exploration and experience of being a Muslim in America today. Click here to learn more about Auburn’s Center for Multifaith Understanding and the unifying ways that religious traditions share the passion for justice and peace.

And Auburn’s Face to Face programs begins its summer intensive camp experience where young leaders learn peacemaking skills to help them heal the world. Click here to meet some of the Face to Face participants and click here to meet Face to Face Counselor Audrey White, Auburn’s Religious Leader of the Week. Audrey will be updating us on Face to Face for weeks to come and click here to read her blog and learn about the Face to Face experience.

Looking for more film recommendations for your community of faith? Click here to view our documentary resources.

Email the Rev. Kellie Anderson-Picallo with your questions about how media can be a resource to your ministry.