IM Houston: meals for homebound seniors, refugee services, volunteering and interfaith connection in Houston

The thread running through all of it

Interfaith Relations

Bringing people of diverse faith traditions together for dialogue, collaboration and service, as a demonstration of our shared beliefs. It is not a fourth service sitting beside the others. It is the thread that runs through all of them.

Houston is one of the most religiously diverse cities in the country. Feed the hungry, welcome the stranger, love your neighbor: those tenets appear in nearly every tradition represented here, and Interfaith Relations is the work of keeping those communities in the same room.

Dinner Dialogues, an Interfaith Network of 99 member organizations meeting quarterly at a different house of worship each time, and UN World Interfaith Harmony Week every February. Many of our board members and our most committed volunteers first walked in through one of them.

Why one organization

The congregation that hosts a dialogue in February is delivering meals by June.

These programs are not four departments sharing a building. They feed each other, and that is the whole argument for keeping them together.

• Houses of worship in the Interfaith Network supply many of the volunteers who drive Meals on Wheels routes, and several run entire routes with their own people.
• Refugee Services is where Houston's next generation of business owners begins. Families who arrive with a trade leave our sewing and career programs running alterations shops and grocery stores, employing their neighbors.
• Volunteer Houston puts the people those congregations mobilize wherever the need is that week, including at hundreds of other nonprofits across the region.

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Feeding the hungry, welcoming the stranger and loving your neighbor are shared tenets across the faiths represented in this city. They are also, quite literally, our program list. Why these belong together

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