"A Courageously Loving Day"

Courageous Love is the willingness to place oneself at risk for the benefit of another. I know I am painting a joyful picture of the day, yet the joy was filled with shock and sadness. We met the unhoused; we wept and heard their sorrow; we met and heard the cries of prisoners in despair, we wrestled with gun violence, we prayed and named the violence around the world and in the Holy Land, and we did not pretend that these problems had gone away. But we did catch a glimpse of the solutions, and we experienced the part we must play in the healing of the world. 

I pray this day inspires you toward loving and courageous acts of generosity and service, risking your time, your funds, your theological understandings, your world views, and even your hearts.  Please stay tuned for an interfaith service story of your courageous love.

Bruce Barrett
Founder/President
IWagePeace.Org

 The Interfaith Service Festival 2024 Service Projects

 Cleaned the beach at Long Wharf 
with Save the Sound
Prepared 600 Blessing Bags
with Beth-El Center &
Columbus House
Raised sunken cemetery markers
with Hebrew Burial and Free Loan Association New Haven
Installed flashing on affordable housing project
with Habitat for Humanity GNH

Prepared sandwiches & served guests
with Chapel on the Green

Learned about fighting food insecurity
with the Purple Pantry Box

Met the families & visited the center
with the Integrated Immigrant & Refugee Services IRIS
Painted a giant 48 foot "Courageous Love" mural 
with IWagePeace
Transformed gun barrels into jewelry
with Swords to Plowshares Northeast
A Teach In & visit to Rosette Village
with The Amistad Catholic Workers
Viewed a documentary & learned how CT's incarceration system needs change
with Stop Solitary CT
Toured the Crypt the burial ground beneath the meetinghouse
with Center Church on the Green

The 2024 Interfaith Service Festival Partners

  • Abdul Majid Karim Hasan Islamic Center Hamden
  • Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel New Haven
  • Congregation B'nai Jacob Woodbridge
  • Elm Community Insight New Haven
  • Evening Star Holiness Church Milford
  • First Presbyterian Church New Haven
  • First & Summerfield United Methodist New Haven
  • First United Church of Christ Milford
  • Jerusalem Peacebuilders
  • Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven
  • Mary Taylor Memorial United Methodist Church
  • Muhammad Islamic Center of Greater Hartford
  • New Haven Friends Meeting 
  • New Haven Zen Center
  • Regional Baha'i Council of the Northeastern States
  • Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church Madison
  • Saint John XXIII Catholic Community West Haven
  • Saint Peter's Episcopal Church Milford
  • Saint Matthew's Episcopal Church Wilton
  • Shalom United Church of Christ New Haven
  • Temple Beth David Cheshire
  • Temple Beth Sholom Hamden
  • Temple Emanuel of Greater New Haven
  • Trinity Episcopal Church Southport
  • Trinity on the Green New Haven
  • Unitarian Society of New Haven
  • United Church on the Green New Haven
  • United Congregational Church Bridgeport
  • Walk of Faith Church New Haven
  • Woodmont United Church of Christ Milford

Blessing Bag Service Project

We built 600 blessing bags with over $12,000 of essentials for the unhoused.

Please contribute what you can. 

Make a Blessing Bag Donation

A Kosher Cookout

We fed over 400 service day volunteers with our midday feast and interfaith celebration


Please contribute what you can.

Make a Kosher Cookout Donation

Remember Our Slogans:

We are all in this together
We do not need to agree on everything to work together for justice and peace.
We will not let the perfect become the enemy of the good.
Humor doth the heart like good medicine

Why Interfaith Service?
Interfaith service addresses one of the greatest challenges facing our communities: Diversity. Who are these Jews, these Christians, these Muslims, these aliens in our midst from other lands and religions? Well, let’s get to know them. Because we are in fact “All In This Together”, we must actively seek ways of working and being together, building the bridges necessary for a diverse and wonderful community. God did not make us a single people of one language, one skin color, one size, one religion. God made us diverse. And because we are diverse, interesting, complex and wonderful, we at times get confused and offend one another. We need time together to learn and grow as a community that enjoys and respects the differences among our peoples.

Over the years:   

The IWagePeace Projects    

Interfaith Service
Festivals

Painting for Peace
& the Billboard Campaigns

Documentary Film:
"The Billboard from Bethlehem"

Combatants
for Peace Tours

The
IWagePeace
Walks

IWagePeace is a Connecticut 501(c)(3) not for profit that inspires and educates Americans about peacemaking through creative interfaith gatherings, community service projects, public displays of art, and more.  Our work is made possible by your spiritual and physical presence.  We hope you'll join us.

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