Muslims & Christians To Talk, Then Pray
Posted: Monday, Oct. 10, 2011
Michael Gordon
Mecklenburg Ministries is holding its first interfaith prayer meeting, designed to promote greater understanding and common spiritual ground between Christians and Muslims.
“Community Conversation: Prayer Across Faith Traditions” will be Wednesday at Park Road Baptist Church., 3900 Park Road, Charlotte. Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. with the program to run from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The Ministries’ youth council, along with Park Road Baptist and the Muslim American Society are co-sponsoring the event.
Imam John Ederer will explain Muslim traditions of prayer, then invite those on hand to take part in or observe the Islamic sunset prayer.
The Revs. Amy and Russ Dean, Park Road’s pastors, will discuss Christian prayer, then lead vespers.
Talking and praying together, “will be a much more productive way to spend the evening than arguing over political divisions or pointing a long finger of derision at people because they are different than us,” Russ Dean said in a prepared statement.
Maria Hanlin, director of Mecklenburg Ministries, expects several hundred people to attend.
Dinner cost $6 and requires an RSVP at anne@parkroadbaptist.org by noon today.
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