Nevada Prayer Breakfast - Fallon Group Attends

by Rachel Dahl —  Several members of the Fallon faith community attended the Nevada Prayer Breakfast recently in Reno. Held annually by the Nevada Interfaith Association, the breakfast brings together over 250 representatives from the many churches and religions in the Reno area. According to the program for the event, the Nevada Prayer Breakfast is a community gathering to offer “prayerful support for our State and our leaders. As individuals and communities we may believe differently in our approach to the Divine, yet we gather at the Nevada Prayer Breakfast equally, inclusively, and without discrimination for a common purpose.” The Nevada Interfaith Association is the welcoming network of religious and spiritual leaders, organizations, and associates, bringing communities in Nevada together. In a meeting packed with messages of hope from different faiths, recognizing and honoring local programs and individuals, and uplifting expressions of faith from several local youth, there was also a special report on the progress of the spiritual center at Renown Regional Medical Center. Terri Domitrovich, the pastoral minister of St. Teresa of Availa Catholic Community and Chaplain Intern at Renown Health talked about the work that has been done to the chapel and the different groups who have participated in that effort. Youth speakers Talia Guzman, President of SUNNY, Temple Sinai; Nazrul Mojumder, Northern Nevada Muslim Community & UNR Student Outreach Clinic; Sahar Sedigh, Baha’i Faith/Baha’is of Northern Nevada; and Natalia Elise Chacon, UNITY Native Youth Member & Miss Numaga Indian Days 2018-19 each gave presentations, including a beautiful prayer song by Chacon. Loni Faught, Public affairs officer for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints organized the group from Fallon for the second year in a row. “I’m so pleased,” she said, “we had 15 people attend today, that’s double what we had last year.” Many of the attendees are working with Faught on an Interfaith organization effort in Fallon and will be holding a similar event early this summer. Patricia Mediell, the President of the NIA spoke about the youth summit this year and how efforts to hold a skate-a-thon to raise money for the Eddy House, snowballed into an event that raised over $7,000 for the youth homeless shelter. “Hope grows out of faith and improves our spiritual eyesight,” said Mediell, as she presented recognition to the organizers of the youth summit. During her closing remarks, Master of Ceremonies, Rabbi Sara Zober, Temple Sinai called on the audience to continue working together. Referring to Adam and Eve, she said, “We all have the same parents, no one is any better than anyone else.