Events
First Annual Ozarks Festival of Faiths
The first Ozarks Festival of Faiths in Springfield, MO will be held January 28, 2023 at The Art Museum.
4:30-6:30 pm – faith and city leadership dinner: Location TBD. By invitation only. We will recognize city leaders who have helped us through these past few years.
6:30-9 pm – event: @ The Art Museum. Open to the community. There will be Faith exhibits to view and ask representatives questions, children’s art exhibit about “unity”, and a musical program with a childrens interfaith choir and an adult interfaith choir.
Two opportunities to view the Musical program include:
- 7-7:30 pm
- 8-8:30 pm
At 8:45 pm there will be a candlelight vigil inside the art museum to end the celebration.
Art Exhibit: Children (up to age 18) can participate in the art display about Unity. Email Sue for more details.
Service Project: Interfaith members will help assist the NAACP with MLK celebrations. More details to come.
Faiths currently participating:
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Presbyterian
- Methodist
- Christ episcopal
- First Unitarian Universalist
- Unity
- Buddha
- Hindu
- Bahai
- Sikh
- Islamic
- Jewish
- Catholic
- Baptist
- Native American
- Lutheran
- We are growing and welcome other faiths to join and participate.
Supporting partners:
- The Art Museum
- Faith Voices
- NAACP
- The Have Faith Initiative
- Interfaith Alliance of the Ozarks.
Contact
Community members wanting to be apart of the Interfaith Children or Adult choirs should contact:
Deanna Carpenter
940-867-9769
demaisdee@gmail.com