Following a training for chaplains at San Francisco General Hospital last Tuesday, ING received the following testimonial: “I want to offer my deepest gratitude for your presentation with our department and some other providers this week. I have received an overwhelming amount of feedback from folks about how helpful your presentation was. I have heard repeatedly how amazed people were at how much they learned in an hour and a half. I am so grateful for you coming all the way to the city to help teach the chaplains to serve Muslim patients here at the hospital better. I was on the floor today and was able to apply elements of what you shared with the patients and do some education with staff. I really can’t thank you enough for what you offered us this week. Deep bows of gratitude.”  

Interfaith Allies is ING’s national grassroots campaign to respond to growing anti-Muslim and anti-minority sentiment, bigotry, and hatred by encouraging and facilitating face-to-face engagement, relationship-building, fellowship, and action between people of different religious traditions, beliefs, and cultures. Over the coming year, with the unique opportunities and needs that an election cycle brings, congregations and places of worship will be at the forefront of efforts to build face-to-face, person-to-person relationships of trust and mutual respect with those from different religious traditions and backgrounds. Here are some upcoming Interfaith Allies events that you can attend: