Elise to provide presentation for about 109 Cary Academy HS students

Come join supporters of the 2015 Habitat for Humanity Interfaith Build as we learn about each other’s faith in a comfortable, fun environment, all while gearing up to build a house together in March for a local family in need.

Possible discussion topics:

• What makes your faith special?
• How do you practice your faith on a daily basis?
• What’s your favorite faith holiday?
• How well can you swing a hammer?

Email outreach@kadampa-center.org if you are interested in attending.

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Whether you just want more veggies in your diet, or are already a vegetarian who is struggling to achieve nutritional balance,

THIS ONE IS FOR YOU!

Join us for a fun and interactive workshop where you will learn:

• The basics for how to be a HEALTHY vegetarian
• How to make being vegetarian easy and affordable
• Basic nutritional “know-how’s” for supplements and food combining for optimal absorption of nutrients.
• How to improve your energy and feel grounded and focused after meals.

This workshop will cover all of the essentials that you should know about being vegetarian, so that you can feel good and have a stronger practice than ever!

Eating well will improve your meditation or other spiritual practice and your ability to foster compassion and love in this world.

Your body is a temple…Health, Love and Compassion starts with OURSELVES! If we cannot love and nourish ourselves, how can we truly love and nourish others?

Julie Hutsell-Starling is holistic health coach and a licensed acupuncturist. She specializes in helping people find the foods and ways of being that make their bodies hum, so that they can live life fully and happily. She gives practical tools and steps for implementing a healthier diet and lifestyle making the transition fun and simple for her

Suggested donation of $3 to contribute towards overhead costs.

Our neighborhood gatherings took a slight hiatus through the fall and now we're happy to announce the Inside the Belt-line kick-off potluck!

January 12 from 5-7 p.m.
Home of Elise and David Strevel 1700 Park Drive (Cameron Park)

As with all the potlucks and gatherings to come, everyone in every neighborhood is invited. Soon we will have all our potluck kick-offs complete and the neighborhood leaders will meet to begin planning all the activities for all our neighborhoods. These events whether intimate or large will be announced via emails, Facebook and on the KC website.

We look forward to seeing you all at David and Elise's with yummy dishes and superb treats!

Come view the traveling exhibit of

The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama

Saturday, December 7 from 10:00am – 3:00pm
Sunday, December 8: from 9:00am – 3:00pm
with special presentations at 11:00am and 1:00pm

Join us at Kadampa Center to view "The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama." This traveling exhibition of poster reproductions presents art as a lens through which we can see our common humanity and explore the many meanings of peace. Its purpose is to foster real reflection and engagement with peace on individual, family and community levels.

The original exhibition was developed by the Committee of 100 for Tibet and the Dalai Lama Foundation. This smaller, yet still compelling, offering is brought to us by Sue Etheridge. As an Art Therapist at the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, NC, Sue exhibited "The Missing Peace" at the Complex in 2008 and 2011. Because of her work with the prisoners, in 2014 she will be recognized for her achievements by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. 

On Sunday, Dec. 8 at 11:00am and 1:00pm, Sue will present a slide show of her exhibits at the Federal Prison, and provide insights to many of the art pieces based on her experience at one of the original major museum showings.

The exhibition includes:

• more than 20 reproductions of The Missing Peace art works
• interactive works
• activities for children

More information about Missing Peace

Come view the traveling exhibit of

The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama

Saturday, December 7 from 10:00am – 3:00pm
Sunday, December 8: from 9:00am – 3:00pm
with special presentations at 11:00am and 1:00pm

Join us at Kadampa Center to view "The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama." This traveling exhibition of poster reproductions presents art as a lens through which we can see our common humanity and explore the many meanings of peace. Its purpose is to foster real reflection and engagement with peace on individual, family and community levels.

The original exhibition was developed by the Committee of 100 for Tibet and the Dalai Lama Foundation. This smaller, yet still compelling, offering is brought to us by Sue Etheridge. As an Art Therapist at the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, NC, Sue exhibited "The Missing Peace" at the Complex in 2008 and 2011. Because of her work with the prisoners, in 2014 she will be recognized for her achievements by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. 

On Sunday, Dec. 8 at 11:00am and 1:00pm, Sue will present a slide show of her exhibits at the Federal Prison, and provide insights to many of the art pieces based on her experience at one of the original major museum showings.

The exhibition includes:

• more than 20 reproductions of The Missing Peace art works
• interactive works
• activities for children

More information about Missing Peace

School may be out, but hunger isn’t. Help to Stop Summer Hunger!

Nutritional, non-perishable food items will be collected from Sunday, June 9 through Sunday, June 23.  Donations will be used to meet the nutritional needs of children at risk of hunger during non-school hours, especially over weekends, holidays and during school breaks.

Donated food items will be packaged in paper lunch bags and distributed to participating kids by the Food Bank. Special thanks to the Kadampa Center’s Children’s Program for contributing by hand-decorating the lunch bags!

Please donate nutritious, non-perishable food items such as those found in individual portion metal or plastic containers. Pop-top items and microwavable cups are preferred (no glass, please).  Examples of kid-friendly items include:

• Whole grain cereal/granola bars
• Individual cereal boxes
• Graham crackers
• Crackers with peanut butter
• Light popcorn
• 100% juice and juice boxes
• Canned meals: Soups, stews, spaghetti, ravioli, etc. (pop-top items a plus!)
• Canned fruit/fruit cups (light syrup) or applesauce
• Dried fruit (raisins, cranberries, plums)

Bring your food item donations to the Collection Barrel located in the Kadampa Center lobby.

Thank you for your generous kid-friendly food item donations to Help Stop Summer Hunger!

Come have fun exploring and developing your own natural intuition during an evening with Sherrie Dillard.

With an international clientele, Sherrie has been an intuitive, medium, author and teacher for over 25 years. She is the author of Discover Your Psychic Type, Love and Intuition, and The Miracle Workers Handbook: Seven Levels of Power and Manifestation of the Virgin Mary

Location:  Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh, Upper Sanctuary, 3313 Wade Avenue, Raleigh, NC 

Tickets $12

Reserve your tickets by emailing:  insidehappiness@kadampa-center.org

To all our green thumbs and friends who just like to dig in the dirt:

Come to our Spring Planting Day this Saturday, April 20, 9 a.m. to noon!

Our work will include:
Around the stupa, tilling in topsoil, grading and seeding
Moving perennials and planting annuals and summer bulbs
Weeding where needed

Bring your garden tools and shovels!  We have one tiller but could use at least one more. If you have one to lend or bring, please contact Donna at office@ kadampa-center.org

See you Saturday!