FAR

The Faith Alliance for Revitalization (FAR) is a multi-faith, multi-agency, and multi-stakeholder collaborative partnership working to rebuild and revitalize the City of Shamokin and the surrounding communities.

Next FAR Meeting: June 13th 5:30 PM at Mother Cabrini Hall (found downstairs)

Sub Groups 'FAR Better Together' and 'Community Gardens and Pocket Parks' currently meet and contact information can be found on their pages. 

Get Involved Now!! 

Click here to be directed towards our Goal Group Page to find a group that is currently meeting now!!

Group 1 (TIE): Erik at mr.erik.s.anderson@gmail.com  

Group 2 (HOPE): Mark at screenartspuddin@gmail.com  

Group 3 (FAR Better Together): Susan at smvanaskieward52@outlook.com.  

Group 4 (Grow Shamokin):  Steve at steve.motya@butz.com  


Click on our 'Community Connections' to find out more about all the wonderful groups currently meeting!

Our Collaborative Partners:

Faith  

Jesus gave us a mission, rooted in a belief in Him, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another”. (John 13:34)

This commandment calls us to shape the moral character of society using both our faith and reason to bring truth and goodness to into community building and political life.   

Pope Francis puts it this way: "We need to participate for the common good. Sometimes we hear: a good [people of faith] are not interested in politics. This is not true: good [people of faith] immerse themselves in politics by offering the best of themselves so that the leader can govern". 

Alliance

Jesus said the second most important commandment is this: “Love your neighbor as yourself”. (Mark 12:31)

Solidarity is “a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the good of all and of each individual, because we are all really responsible for all.” 

It is a readiness, in the Gospel sense, to ‘lose oneself’ for the sake of the other instead of exploiting oppressing the other for one’s own advantage.”

Our nation’s tradition of pluralism is enhanced, not threatened, when religious groups and people of faith bring their convictions into public life. The Christian community brings to local initiatives and political dialogue a consistent moral framework and broad experience serving those in need.

Revitalization

John the Apostle says, “Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God”. (Revelation 3:2-3)

Revitalization is the effort to bring purpose, passion, and proper priorities back into a community.

Pope Francis quotes Pope Benedict XVI who said, “If indeed ‘the just ordering of society and of the state is a central responsibility of politics,’ the Church[es] ‘cannot and must not remain on the sidelines in the fight for justice’”. 

Previous Editions of Our Newsletter: FAR & Wide

January 2021

FAR & Wide Jan 2021.pdf

October 2020

FAR & Wide Oct 2020.pdf

August 2020

FAR & Wide Aug 2020.pdf

September 2020

FAR & Wide Sep 2020.pdf