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Seeing Every Neighbor 1

How to Promote Multifaith Relationships

on a Christian College Campus

A toolkit by Neighborly Faith

Seeing

Every

Neighbor

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Seeing Every Neighbor 2

Seeing Every

Neighbor

How to Promote Multifaith Relationships

on a Christian College Campus

CONTENTS

Who is this for?.................................................................

Muslims are excited to meet Christians...........................

Starting your own multifaith event/conversation............

Types of Christian-Muslim events.................................

Steps to go from zero to an event................................

What to talk about at events........................................

How to structure an event............................................

Principles for effective events.......................................

How Neighborly Faith can help..................................

Appendix A: Scripts for reaching out to other faiths....

Appendix B: Making your campus more welcoming

to religious minority students........................................

Appendix C: Making Your campus more hospitable

to conversations about religious diversity....................

Contact info & resources...............................................

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Neighborly Faith equips Christians to

overcome fear, speak truthfully, and

build real relationships with people of

other faiths. We work on college cam- puses, where the next generation of

Christian leaders are.

We facilitate personal and institutional

friendships with neighbors of all faiths.

We want such friendships to become a

natural part of what it means to be a

Christian in today’s diverse society.

Neighborly Faith has successfully

equipped thousands of students and

staff at colleges across America. Our

message is clear:

ANYONE CAN DO THIS.

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Seeing Every Neighbor 3

WHO IS THIS FOR?

Too few U.S. evangelicals are interacting regularly

with individuals of other religious faiths. Further still,

Christian communities often find it hard to even imag- ine what a faithful ambassador of Christ looks like in

a multfaith society.

Co-Founders Chris Stackaruk & Kevin Singer started

Neighborly Faith to address an issue they saw arising

in the evangelical community: our inability or an un- willingness to engage with their religious neighbors in

a way that is honest and builds trust.

Neighborly Faith is about blazing a new trail for Chris- tian relationships with people of other faiths. Since

2015, we’ve grown to become a nationwide movement

providing resources and discovering opportunities

where Christ-centered college students can live for Je- sus in our increasingly diverse society.

Jesus said to him, ‘’Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your

soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.

The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” [Matthew 22:37-39]

If you follow Jesus, we are inviting you to join us in

learning how to love our neighbors — EVERY neighbor

— no matter their religion. This booklet will teach you

how to build trust across faiths and create events that

bring people together.

We promise that if you give some of NF’s ideas a try,

you’ll make friends you’d never expected you could,

see God at work, and have tons of fun.

And one more heads up: in this booklet we’re going

to focus on Muslims, although what you learn can be

applied to any faith group. We have stories from all

kinds of faiths, but have focused on one to keep things

simple.