COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
The purpose of Community Engagement program of The Interfaith Alliance Foundation of Oklahoma is to focus on both strategic and routine community issues and events that are impacting our society. The goal is to learn, educate and share about the critical issues affecting the people in the State of Oklahoma. We engage in interfaith dialogue on critical issues that impact our communities. We offer support to requests or events that involve other faiths, faith leaders, organizations, prayers and humanity!
We strive to learn from the SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) and garner the support of people of faith, religion, and houses of worship to help the people and the society. The strategic community issues we have focused on are domestic violence and mental health. On domestic violence, we teamed up with Palomar, YWCA, DHS, and other organizations.
In supporting our people, we engaged in dialogue to find solutions to humanitarian causes like supporting anti-racism and the Afghan refugees who entered our state legally and need help to settle down. These refugees had helped Americans when the USA was in need of them for safety and to help fight and win the war on terrorism.
We support faith communities protecting children, the separation of church and state, and working with other organizations in lending a helping hand. Examples are supporting American United, Mayflower Church, Oklahoma Faith Network, Oklahoma Center of Nonprofits, etc.
We support faith leaders in our state, and others who visit from time to time, to learn from them and share their wisdom for the improvement of the lives of people and society. Examples are Rev. T. Sheri Dickerson in 2021, Rev. Dr. Robert Willis, Dean Emeritus, Canterbury Cathedral, in 2024, and Sister Rosemary from Uganda in 2025.
We support the causes that at one time were strategic and we helped start, but today have become a routine to maintain our presence and voice. Examples are: Muslim Day at the Capitol, Annual Thanksgiving Prayer, Bahai World Religions Series, etc.
We collaborate with other houses of worship and faith leaders to monitor, support, and nominate those leaders who have done excellent work over a period to serve our communities and help humanity at large. We recognize these people at our annual dinner.
At the heart of The Interfaith Alliance of Oklahoma is a simple yet powerful belief: that people of all diverse faiths and beliefs — and of no faith — deserve dignity, inclusion, and a voice.
We have connected and collaborated with the following faiths, religions, beliefs, houses of worship and organizations in the spirit diversity, inclusivity and having a vision that there is ONENESS in All Humanity!
- Agnostics
- Atheists
- Bahai’
- Buddhism
- Cathedral of Hope
- Christianity
- Church of Jesus Christ LDS
- Dharma Center of Oklahoma
- Emanuel Synagogue
- Food Bank of OK
- First Unitarian Church
- Hinduism
- Indigenous
- Islam
- Judaism
- Lazarus House
- LGBTQIA+
- OKC Zoo
- Oklahoma City University
- OSU-OKC
- Personal Beliefs
- Rissho Kosei-kai
- Sikhism
- Sikh Gurdwara of Oklahoma
- Temple B’nai Israel
- Unitarian
- United Methodist Church