10:00am–11:30am: 5th Sunday Worship : "Sanctuary for Transformation" in our personal lives and in our community
– Sunday, March 30. 2025
Led by: Jamal Rahman & Sally Jo Gilbert de Vargas
This event is In Person, Live Streaming
Sally Jo and Jamal will explore with congregants how they are experiencing and deepening into Transformation in their personal lives and in community with others.
Imam Jamal Rahman is a popular speaker and author on Islam, Sufi spirituality, and interfaith relations. Along with his Interfaith Amigos, he has been featured in The New York Times, CBS News, BBC, and various NPR programs. Jamal is co-founder and Muslim Sufi Imam at Interfaith Community Sanctuary, and adjunct faculty at Seattle University. He travels nationally and internationally, presenting at retreats and workshops. Jamal’s passion lies in interfaith community building and activism.
Your generous donation allows us to continue offering interfaith worship services, events, classes. Also to continue creating sacred community as well as maintaining a historic building in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Currently we are in the process of recovering from rain water damage. Thank you for your help!
Your generous DONATION may be mailed to:
Interfaith Community Sanctuary
1763 NW 62nd Street
Seattle, Washington 98107
Land Acknowledgement:
We would like to acknowledge that we gather today on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples, who have lived here from time immemorial. Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude for our Indigenous neighbors, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways.
The Coast Salish is a group of ethnically and linguistically related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, living in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. They speak one of the Coast Salish languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Salish_languages
Kiran (they/them) is a student of spirituality interested in understanding our selves and our world as ecologies and practicing love and interdependence through the teachings of many lineages. They are the Convener of Gathering Ground, an interfaith eco-spiritual community in Seattle. They have been shaped by their time in environmental politics, and their community organizing home is in the disability justice and neurodiversity movements. Kiran is a student in the Drikung Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and has also found spiritual nurturing in Lutheran, United Church of Christ, Jewish, and interfaith communities.
SHARING OUR WEALTH
Your generous donation allows us to continue offering interfaith worship services, events, classes. Also to continue creating sacred community as well as maintaining a historic building in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Currently we are in the process of recovering from rain water damage.
Land Acknowledgement:
We would like to acknowledge that we gather today on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples, who have lived here from time immemorial. Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude for our Indigenous neighbors, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways.
The Coast Salish is a group of ethnically and linguistically related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, living in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. They speak one of the Coast Salish languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Salish_languages
This Universal Worship gathering will focus on our spiritual discernment .
Scriptural readings are available here.
This gathering is in-person. It will be live-streamed.
You can view this service in real time on our YouTube channel.
Our 2025 Spiritual Discernment: January: Sanctuary of Inclusion February: Sanctuary for the Divine March: Sanctuary for Transformation April: Sanctuary for Healing May: Sanctuary for Engaged Listening June: Sanctuary for Refuge July: Sanctuary for Preservation August: Sanctuaries in Time September: Sanctuary of Nature October: Sanctuary for the Self November: Sanctuary that Functions as a Sacred Spaceto perform Religious Rites and Ceremonies December: A Complete Sanctuary of Community
SHARING OUT WEALTH:
Your generous donation allows us to continue offering interfaith worship services, events, classes. Also to continue creating sacred community as well as maintaining a historic building in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Currently we are in the process of recovering from rain water damage.
Thank you for your help! https://interfaithcommunitysanctuary.org/donate/
Your generous DONATION may be mailed to:
Interfaith Community Sanctuary
1763 NW 62nd Street
Seattle, Washington 98107
Land Acknowledgement:
We would like to acknowledge that we gather today on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples, who have lived here from time immemorial. Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude for our Indigenous neighbors, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways.
The Coast Salish is a group of ethnically and linguistically related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, living in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. They speak one of the Coast Salish languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Salish_languages
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Imam Jamal Rahman is a popular speaker and author on Islam, Sufi spirituality, and interfaith relations. Along with his Interfaith Amigos, he has been featured in The New York Times, CBS News, BBC, and various NPR programs. Jamal is co-founder and Muslim Sufi Imam at Interfaith Community Sanctuary, and adjunct faculty at Seattle University. He travels nationally and internationally, presenting at retreats and workshops. Jamal’s passion lies in interfaith community building and activism.
Your generous donation allows us to continue offering interfaith worship services, events, classes. Also to continue creating sacred community as well as maintaining a historic building in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Currently we are in the process of recovering from rain water damage. Thank you for your help!
Your generous DONATION may be mailed to:
Interfaith Community Sanctuary
1763 NW 62nd Street
Seattle, Washington 98107
Land Acknowledgement:
We would like to acknowledge that we gather today on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples, who have lived here from time immemorial. Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude for our Indigenous neighbors, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways.
The Coast Salish is a group of ethnically and linguistically related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, living in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. They speak one of the Coast Salish languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Salish_languages
You are warmly invited to join us for an experiential evening devoted to your inner peace.
All.are welcome to bring pillows, mats, and blankets for the Sound Journey .
About Isla Ross:
Isla Ross is a Devotional Artist and Composer who offers Healing Songs, Interfaith Chants, and Meditative Music, accompanied by an array of exotic instruments. Even as a child , she was fascinated by the spiritual practices and music of many cultures.
In 2002, Isla experienced a transformative year in Europe, including a Sacred Clowning retreat in a Tibetan monastery. The lessons included Sacred chants of India. She continued studying with several sound healers in England and back in the US. In 2005, Isla found her way to the Interfaith Community Sanctuary in Seattle, where she shares music for services and events.
10:00am–11:30am: 4th Sunday Worship with Anita Ehrheart and Mary Vigdor
– Sunday, April 27. 2025
Led by: Sally Jo Gilbert de Vargas
This event is In Person, Live Streaming
Our 4th Sunday worship service will be shared by Anita Ehrheart and Mary Vigdor, who are both members of ICS. Flute music will be offered by Steve Kramer.
The service will focus on our presenters' personal stories around the topic, "Healing into Life."
Anita Ehrheart is a long time member of ICS. She is a retired registered nurse and has a master’s degree in counseling. During her career she worked mostly with underserved populations dealing with a variety of health conditions including HIV, diabetes, and opioid addiction. She is the proud mother of two daughters and two grandchildren. She enjoys learning about and exploring various spiritual traditions. She and her husband Lee spend much of their time in Port Townsend. They welcome all visitors from ICS and have a guest house available during the summer.
Mary is originally from Milwaukee, WI but also lived in Bloomington, IN (19 years) and Santa Fe, NM (8 years). She was married to Steve Vigdor for 12 years and they have two wonderful sons, Jacob (53) and Alex (almost 50). Mary has degrees in Spanish, French and Student Affairs from Madison (the other UW) and IU (Indiana U). Mary moved to Seattle 9 years ago to be near her sons and grandchildren, and they all live within a mile or so of ICS. She was raised Roman Catholic but identifies as a Unitarian Universalist and is now an enthusiastic member of ICS. Mary's healing journey started in 1981 and continues.
SHARING OUR WEALTH
Your generous donation allows us to continue offering interfaith worship services, events, classes. Also to continue creating sacred community as well as maintaining a historic building in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Currently we are in the process of recovering from rain water damage. Thank you for your help!
