Innerfaith messages: hope, peace, healing

DEAR EDITOR:

I hope you are surviving and thriving during this pandemic. Many residents of the Central Okanagan are not.

This is a stressful time of year made even more difficult because of the global pandemic we are experiencing with all of its side effects felt by everyone.

I have been involved with an Interfaith group in Kelowna for a number of years. This year we have — like everyone else — met via Zoom. We had the idea to create messages of hope, peace and healing, especially for those in our community that are really struggling. So each of the faith groups put together a short five-minute message on video to share with the community at large and within their own congregations. These videos have been combined into a single video as a gift to those that are struggling.

If you are interested I have placed the individual videos along with the combined single video on a YouTube channel, from YouTube search “Kelowna Interfaith” and you will be able to see the videos.

We would like to find a way to reach those who are struggling to provide an uplift through this video, especially during what’s the most mentally-difficult time of the year, in a most difficult year.

Gordon Oliver

Kelowna