WYOMING INTERFAITH NETWORK
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Mission Statement
As people of faith, we empower Wyoming's diverse faith communities to promote social and environmental justice through prayer, discernment, respectful dialogue, leadership, advocacy, service and study. Our motto "Fear Not, Be Bold, Build Bridges, Do Justice"
About This Cause
Firstly, The Wyoming Interfaith Network is a 501 C3 non-profit, and donations are tax deductible. The Wyoming Interfaith Network is a group of various faith communities who have come together as one to work for Peace and Justice, Environmental Justice and to celebrate our Spiritual Life together. WIN began as the Wyoming Association of Churches back in 1976, and has a long and successful history of achieving social justice issues and supporting environmental justice issues. In 2014, I as Chairman and our Executive Director discerned that to be truly effective we had to broaden our horizons, thus the switch to becoming Interfaith. The Board of Directors unanimously agreed, and the Wyoming Association of Churches became the Wyoming Interfaith Network. WIN has three teams, Peace and Justice, our social justice arm, On Sacred Ground, our environmental Justice arm, and Spiritual Life, which works to integrate all our interfaith members with common issues. We continue to expand our interfaith outreach, and are always looking for different faith communities to collaborate with. With Peace and Justice we speak for those who have no voice. We advocate for and with the poor, with prisoners, with people of diverse backgrounds, people of all types and persuations, including the LGBTQ+ communities, with the underserved and disenfranchised, and with all those who are left vulnerable by society. Therefore, we support systems, causes, actions and laws that lead to the fulfillment and accomplishment of these objectives. Peace and Justice envisions a society that promotes human dignity and the capacity of all individuals to learn and grow with an emphasis on social justice. We partner with the Wyoming Hunger Initiative, which feeds school children who are nutrition challenged, The Wind River Reservation Native Advocacy Center, the Wyoming Children's Trust fund, the Riverton Peace Mission, the Crow Tribe's Sacred Heart Mountain (Father's Foretop)gathering, the Colorado Interfaith Alliance, the national Interfaith Alliance. Peace and Justice put on the annual meeting in September with a focus on mental health issues, and we put on workshops on varying topics throughout the year. On Sacred Ground, our environmental group, whose objective is to conserve the land and honor the web of life, including working to save lands endangered by oil and gas development and other lands endangered by various forms of non-agricultural development. We support "greening of churches" and advocate for responsible development and groundwater monitoring and protections. We educate faith communities to promote an energy future of renewable energy sources. On Sacred Ground has a couple of resolutions that are worth noting at this point: Resolution one; that the Wyoming Interfaith Network affirm and support all responsible measures for the preservation and flourishing of known endangered and threatened species in particular, those who call Wyoming home. Resolution two; that the Wyoming Interfaith Network affirm and support all responsible measures for implementation of the highest water quality preservation standards, according to the best science available. The Spiritual Life team is committed to exploring the spiritual nature of justice. We approach the holy and one another in humility, seeking to appreciate and better understand each other's faith traditions, thus, we bring our rich spiritual heritage into a wider conversation and learn from other spiritual traditions, and, when together, we worship the Holy and the sacredness of life in mutual respect for each other's faith communities, we are stronger together. Spiritual Life works to explore the nature of social justice and to integrate the faith groups which comprise our membership. Spiritual life seeks to appreciate and better understand each other's faith traditions and they work to educate our members about common and diverse spirituality. We have a wonderful website, www.wyointerfaith.org, that has a wealth of information not covered in this venue, and I highly recommend visiting it to see even more about us, what we do, and what we stand for. It will be time well spent. Together, our teams bring unity to diversity, and collaboration to faith communities which might miss out on an opportunity to work together for the common good. For the Wyoming Interfaith Network, Carl R. Carmichael, Chair of the Board of Directors, Wyoming Interfaith Network ccarmichael@wyointerfaith.org 307.421.7575 home address: 894 Olympus Drive, Sheridan, Wyoming 82801