Interfaith Festival
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Date: June 27, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Place: Kennedy Community Center
1333 Decoto Rd., Union City
Admission: Free!
The Union City Faith-Based Festival is a multi-denominational celebration presented jointly by Union City’s churches, temples, and other congregations featuring music, worship, and dance from around the globe.
Join hundreds of your neighbors in this daylong event honoring the many paths to spiritual understanding.
Festival Program
10 a.m. Opening Ceremony, Emcee Roy Panlilio
- Color Guard, Boy Scouts
- Procession of the Banners
- National Anthem by the InterFaith Choir
- Invocations
- Victory Center A.M.E. Zion Church (English)
- Sikh Gurdwara (Punjabi)
- Our Lady of the Rosary Church (Spanish)
- Southern Alameda County Buddhist Church (Japanese)
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Tongan)
- Islamic Circle of North America (English)
- Wat Buddhanusorn, Thai Buddhist Temple (Thai)
- St. Anne’s Church (Tagalog)
- Purple Lotus Temple & Buddhist School (Tibetan)
- Purple Lotus Temple & Buddhist School (Chinese)
10:40 Welcome by Union City Mayor Mark Green
- Recognition of Dignitaries
- Helen Kennedy, President Union City’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Committee
- Myrla Raymundo, Chairperson Faith-Based Committee
11:00 O Nami Taiko (Japanese drummers) – Southern Alameda County Buddhist Church
11:20 Speaker: Socho Koshin Ogui, Bishop – Buddhist Churches of America
11:40 Dancers – Wat Buddhanusorn, Thai Buddhist Temple
12 p.m. Speaker: Master Samantha Cho – Purple Lotus Temple & Buddhist School
12:20 Dancers – Purple Lotus Temple & Buddhist School
12:40 Speaker: Father Jose Leon – Our Lady of the Rosary Church
1:00 Our Lady of the Rosary Church
1:20 Youth of St. Anne – St. Anne’s Church
1:40 Speaker: Saint Dharam Singh Khalsa, U.S. Jathedar of Damdami Taksaal
2:20 Speaker - Yasir Ali, Islamic Circle of North America
2:40 Islamic Circle of North America
3:00 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
3:20 Brown Temple Church of God In Christ
3:40 New Covenant Evangelistic Christian Center
4:00 Victory Center A.M.E. Zion Church
4:20 Hillview Baptist Church
4:40 New Hope Baptist Church
5:00 Union City Apostolic Church
5:20 Cambell Community Church
5:50 Polynesian Choir
Closing Ceremony, “America the Beautiful” by a Thousand-Voice Choir
Participating Congregations
- Brown Temple Church of God In Christ
- Cambell Community Church
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Gateway to Love Ministries
- Grace Church Fremont
- Hillview Baptist Church
- Interfaith Peace Project
- Islamic Circle of North America
- New Covenant Evangelistic Christian Center
- New Hope Baptist Church
- Our Lady of the Rosary Church
- Purple Lotus Temple & Buddhist School
- Sikh Gurdwara
- Southern Alameda County Buddhist Church
- St. Anne’s Church
- Union City Apostolic Church
- Victory Center A.M.E. Zion Church
- Wat Buddhanusorn, Thai Buddhist Temple
To volunteer for this committee, contact Chair Myrla Raymundo at 510-489-0133.
