Goals
Communal Prayer
To foster interfaith and multi-faith occasions for prayer, meditation, and celebration among the region's religious communities.
Education on Religion
To encourage and provide opportunities for learning about the rituals of prayer, worship and meditation, and about the values and beliefs of the region's various religious traditions.
Dialogue
To organize and promote thoughtful multi-faith and interfaith dialogue concerning important issues of the day. To organize multi-faith dialogue sessions on extensions of meeting and topical issues.
Cooperation and Networking
To stimulate and foster cooperation between people and groups actively engaged in religious and inter-religious work.
Advocacy and Action
To be a unified and/or coordinated, ethical force for justice and the common good.
Board Members
Rabbi Peter Berg
The Temple
Imara Canady
Baha'I National Center for Civil and Human Rights
Mark Chrenshaw
Methodist
Executive Director for Interfaith Disabilities Connection
Nuri Daya
Muslim
Shia Ismaili Center
Ebrahim Esmail
Muslim
Shai Ismaili Center
Rev. Susan Allen Grady
Pastor
St. Paul United Methodist Church
Rabbi Joshua Lesser
Rabbi
Congregation Bet Havorim
Rabbi Brad Levenberg
Rabbi
Temple Sinai
Uma Majmudar
Vedantist
The Vedanta Center
Dr. Khalid Siddiq
Director
The Al Farooq Masid
The Al Farooq Masid
Judy Marx
Director of The Atlanta Jewish Committee
Ahavath Achim Synagogue
Valerie Morvan
Buddhist
Director of the Shambahala Meditation Center
Gillian Renault
Vedanta/Hindu
The Vedanta Center
Vedanta/Hindu
The Vedanta Center
Shelley Rose
Assistant. Director of the Anti-Defamation League
Assistant. Director of the Anti-Defamation League
Congregation Bet Havorim
Safiyyah Shahid
Director of Mohammed Schools
Muslim
The Atlanta Masjid of Al Islam
The Atlanta Masjid of Al Islam
Gacharan Singh
Retired Engineer
Sikh Foundation
Sikh Foundation
Sikh Social Circle
Dr. Heidi Tauscher
Director of parish and social justice
Catholic Charities
Archdiocese of Atlanta
Amad Taufique
Muslim
Islamic Center of Marietta
Al Hedaya Masjid
Rev. Dr. Jill Ulrici
Board Chair
Pastor
Pastor
Covenant Presbyterian
Church
Gareth Young
Treasurer
Buddhist
Red Clay Sangha
History of FAMA
The Faith Alliance of Metro At
The mission is to promote respect, understanding, prayer, interaction and unity among diverse faiths in the Atlanta region and to advance the influence and voice of the faith community for the common good. A diverse and representative board of directors plans regular bi-monthly assemblies for the public, which move from place to place to encourage interfaith experiences and awareness.
In addition to hosting three annual September 11th citywide commemorative and interfaith worship services that inspired solace, reflection, forgiveness and hope, FAMA has organized and hosted 3-4 assemblies every year on various transforming issues and responsibilities such as:
- The 1906 Atlanta Race Riots
- A Call to Serve on World Hunger Day at the Atlanta Food Bank
- Religious Perspectives on War, Peace and Oppression
- Theological and Ethical Perspectives on Religion and Human Rights After 9/11
- The Children of Abraham: Jews, Christians, and Muslims
- Interfaith Prayer for Peace, at the Gandhi statue, MLK National Historical Site
- Religion, Charitable Choice, and Georgia
- Abrahamic Voices of Peace from The Holy Land
- Eastern Religions as they are practiced in Atlanta: Hinduism Jainism, Sikhism, at the Hindu Temple of Atlanta
- Religion and Politics—Lets go over to the Capital to talk with legislators
- Sudan National Day of Conscience-Press Conference and Interfaith Prayer Service
- Darfur: Unity Statement and Call to Action and Rally (2006-2007)
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Wholistic Health and Spirituality
Other Programs of FAMA
FAMA hosts and directs to outreach programs: Peace by Piece, an interfaith interactive youth program for high school students of the three Abrahamic faiths, and World Pilgrims, a world traveling service designed to build trust, relationships and understanding among the interfaith travelers or, as we prefer to call them, Pilgrims.