36th Annual Lincoln Mayor’s Interfaith Prayer Breakfast
Free Live Web Event
Please join us for this annual celebration of our city’s diverse faith cultures.
“Building a Compassionate Community”
Virtual 36th Annual Mayor’s Interfaith Prayer Breakfast
Honorary Chair, Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird
Friday, April 17, 2020
7:30 AM Central
FREE RSVP HERE
RSVP necessary to receive the web/phone connection information a few days prior to the scheduled event.
Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird and Event Speaker Nipun Mehta
In these unique times where our interconnectedness is abundantly clear, coming together to build a more compassionate community feels more pressing than ever. Let’s make compassion the enduring “viral” contagion of these times!
Our featured speaker, Nipun Mehta, is the founder of ServiceSpace, an organization and global ecosystem fully run by volunteers that leverages both the “inner technology” of our many ancient wisdom traditions and the “outer technology” of our modern scientific understandings (inner-net meets internet). Nipun has catalyzed a global social movement of community builders grounded in their localities and rooted in practices for cultivating love, nonviolence, selfless service, and compassion. The ecosystem has reached millions, attracted thousands of volunteers, and mushroomed into numerous community-based service projects as well as inspiring content portals — projects such as DailyGood, Awakin circles in more than 100 circles around the globe, weekly Awakin calls and Awakin weekly readings, KindSpring, and Karma Kitchen. ServiceSpace harnesses the collective power of networks and our deeper interconnectedness to create a distributed social movement founded on small, local individual acts of kindness, generosity and service that ignite shifts in individual and collective consciousness. “Change yourself, change the world,” is its vision of inner and social transformation. When Nipun founded ServiceSpace, he left his Silicon Valley technology job simply to serve others full time. In the last two decades, he has quietly and humbly created a vibrant global community of volunteers. The Dalai Lama recognized Nipun as an “Unsung Hero of Compassion” but he didn’t remain “unsung” for long. President Obama appointed him to a council for poverty and inequality in America in 2015, and Germany’s OOOM magazine named him as one of the Top 100 Most Inspiring People of 2018. He has addressed and catalyzed thousands of gatherings around the world. ServiceSpace is a Bay Area-based global ecosystem that aims to “ignite the fundamental generosity in ourselves and others, creating both inner and outer transformation.” An estimated 14,000 people around the globe interact every hour with inspiring volunteer-driven ServiceSpace content.
Following tradition, the program will feature sacred readings and prayers from the wide variety of the religious communities that call Lincoln home. Music will be provided “virtually” by Great Plains Chamber Winds. For more information, please contact D’Arcy Blosser, Chair of the Mayor’s Interfaith Prayer Breakfast Planning Committee, 402-429-6902, darcy.blosser@gmail.com; Stephen Griffith, President, Faith Coalition of Lancaster County, 402-730-8927, fclcne@gmail.com.
** NOTE: The event, previously scheduled as an in-person ticketed breakfast, is now being offered as a FREE live online event. We welcome broad participation from within the City of Lincoln and state. Please RSVP here to receive the web/phone connection information a few days prior to the scheduled event.**