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COMPASSION
SUNDAY
A National Multi-faith Effort of Unity for the Victims of Hurricane
Katrina
3:00
PM, Sunday, September 11, 2005
Because
compassion builds bridges toward hope and understanding, we offer
this Compassion Sunday multi-faith service for Americans concerned
with the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Together we can give aid
to our neighbors and forge the unity that we desperately need
in this nation.
The
Rev. Dr. Mark Johnson
is Senior Minister of Central Baptist Church and thanks members
of his staff and choir including Raleigh Kincaid, Minister of
Music, David Cooper, Church Organist, and Daniel Bailey, a professional
musician who lives in Lexington writing and performing his original
pieces.
The
Honorable Jonathan Miller
is currently serving his second term as the Treasurer for the
Commonwealth of Kentucky. Treasurer Miller, a graduate of
Harvard College and Law School has been the driving force behind
such programs as Kentucky's Affordable Prepaid Tuition program,
and the creation of these Compassion Sabbath Weekend events.
Treasurer Miller also serves on the national Executive Monitoring
Committee that monitors the return of assets seized during the
Holocaust to their rightful owners. Mr. Miller was also appointed
by President Bush and Congressional leaders to serve as a delegate
to the 2002 National Summit on Retirement Savings.
Dr.
Marc Kline
is renowned for his scholarship, interfaith work, and dedication
to tikkun olam. Rabbi Kline serves Temple Adath Israel, a Reform
congregation in Lexington, Kentucky that is more than one hundred
years old. A native of Las Vegas, Rabbi Kline attended Tulane
University in New Orleans and the University of Arkansas Law
School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Rabbi Kline left a successful
law practice in Arkansas in 1990 to study the Torah. After graduating
from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1995, he served at
Temple Beth Israel in Florence, South Carolina until coming to
Temple Adath in 2003.
The
Rev. Dr. Nancy Jo Kemper
is pastor of New Union Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
in Woodford County, Kentucky and is the Executive Director of
the Kentucky Council of Churches. A graduate of Transylvania
University and Yale University Divinity School, she was ordained
by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and has ministerial
standing in the United Church of Christ. Dr. Kemper has
received many honors including being named Humanitarian of the
Year by the Kentucky chapter of the National Conference for Community
and Justice.
Dr.
Sayyid M. Syeed
obtained his Ph.D. in Sociolinguistics from the Indiana University
in Bloomington, Indian, in 1984. As President of the Muslim Students
Association of USA & Canada, he pioneered its transformation
into the Islamic Society of North America. He has also served
as the Secretary General of the International Islamic Federation
of Student Organizations. Dr. Syeed, one of the founders of the
quarterly American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences served
for a decade as AJISS Editor-in-Chief. Dr. Syeed has served as
General Secretary of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists
and currently serves on the Board of Advisory Editors for the
Middle East Affairs Journal and the Board of Advisors for the
Council on American-Islamic Relations. In his present position
as Secretary General of the Islamic Society of North America,
Dr. Syeed is also chairman of the Editorial Board of Islamic
Horizons. Among the many honors he has received, Dr. Syeed was
awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for distinguished service
in furthering the Islamic tradition in North America and for
promoting inter-religious understanding and harmony from the
Catholic Heritage Foundation, Louisville, Kentucky on November
18, 2001.
Dr.
Avinash Sathaye
of the Bharatiya Temple and Cultural Center is Secretary of the
World Association of Vedic Studies. He has chaired sessions
on Studies in Hinduism during the International Congress of Vedanta,
the premier meeting of North American scholars specializing in
all aspects of Indian philosophy and religion. Dr. Sathaye is
also a Professor of Sanskrit and serves as the Director of Undergraduate
Studies for the University of Kentucky Department of Mathematics.
The
Rev. Dr. Thomas L. Hoyt, Jr.
of Shreveport, Louisiana is the Presiding Bishop of the Church
, Fourth District of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.
He serves as the current President of the National Council of
Christ in the USA. In addition to serving as the Chair of the
General Assembly of Church World Service, Bishop Hoyt also currently
serves as the Vice-Chair of the National Board of Directors of
the National Conference for Community and Justice, and as president
of the North American Region of the World Methodist Council.
He is the author of three books on New Testament themes, coauthor
of three other books, and contributor to many more. He was one
of two senior editors for the American Bible Society's 1999 Jubilee
Bible, and he worked on The New Testament and Psalms: An
Inclusive Version, sponsored by the Oxford Press. He also
has written more than 40 articles for academic and church publications.
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