16th Annual Celebration of Gratitude

Interfaith Outreach of Carmel (IOC) and volunteers at Joining Hands Benefit Shop will present the 16th Annual Celebration of Gratitude, a multicultural interfaith celebration featuring storytelling, poetry readings, prayers, and live music from the community on Nov. 17.

IOC is an organization of faith communities dedicated to reducing homelessness in Monterey County.

The free event, which is open to the public, will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, at the Carmel Mission Basilica, 3080 Rio Road, in Carmel-by-the-Sea, and features the Carmel Mission Basilica Schola Cantorum, The Monterey Peninsula Gospel Community Choir and short presentations from the interfaith community.

A coffee/tea dessert reception will follow the program.

For more information, please contact Barbara Dickason at (972) 567-3572, by email at interfaithoutreachcarmel@gmail.com or go to the website at ifaithcarmel.org.

IOC Sponsoring Faith Communities:

• All Saints’ Episcopal Church Monterey County
• Carmel Mission Basilica
• Christian Church of Pacific Grove
• Church of the Good Shepherd
• Church of the Wayfarer
• Community Church of the Monterey Peninsula
• Congregation Beth Israel
• Epiphany Lutheran & Episcopal Church
• First Presbyterian Church of Monterey
• Center for Spiritual Living
• Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

• Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church

• Saint Philip’s Lutheran Church
• St. Mary’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church

• Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula