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The Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington, D.C., (IFFP) is an interfaith congregation founded by four “founding moms” in 1995. It has grown from a Jewish and Christian Sunday School in a Takoma Park, Maryland home into a community of more than 120 families from Montgomery County, Maryland, Northern Virginia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Annapolis., now one of the largest interfaith programs in the country. ==History== IFFP was established in 1995 when four women in interfaith marriages discussed their desire to have more of a religious foundation for their children. Initially, the four families gathered to celebrate the Jewish and Christian holidays. They later established an interfaith Sunday School. They started as a small group in a living room in Takoma Park, Maryland, but soon attracted enough families that they began renting rooms at a local church. In 1998, they hired Rev. Julia Jarvis as a part-time administrator for the growing Sunday School. Rev. Jarvis oversaw the group's move to Sligo Middle School and initiated the development of a spiritual "gathering" for families on Sunday mornings, as well as a "Coming of Age" program for eighth graders approaching the traditional age for a Bar Mitzvah or Confirmation, and programs for adults, such as a Women's Retreat. In 2001, Ellen Jennings was hired as Director of Religious Education and Rev. Jarvis' title was changed to Spiritual Director and Community Leader. In 2003, Rev. Heather Kirk-Davidoff joined IFFP as Spiritual Director and Community Leader and in 2004, Rabbi Harold White () of Georgetown University joined IFFP as an additional Spiritual Advisor. In 2006, Rev. Julia Jarvis returned as Spiritual Director and Community Leader. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington, D.C.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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