The
Michigan Gamaliel Institute affiliates -- MOSES (SE Michigan), Ezekiel
(Saginaw), ISAAC (Kalamazoo County), and JONAH (Battle Creek area)
work together with a collective voice on state issues as MI*Voice
(Michigan Interfaith Voice, pronounced MY VOICE).
ISAAC
Partners in MI*Voice
438 St. Antoine,
Detroit, MI 48226, (313) 962-5290 (Office) (313) 962-5633 (Fax) mosesorg@sbcglobal.net
M.O.S.E.S.
(Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength) is a congregation-centered
ecumenical and interfaith community organization in SE Michigan and
surrounding suburbs with 72 member congregations (to date) under the
leadership of Dr. Kevin M. Turman, Pastor, Second Baptist Church of
Detroit. The 72 member congregations include Catholic, Baptist, Church
of God, Methodist, Jewish, Presbyterian, and Lutheran. M.O.S.E.S.
reflects the diversity of its metropolitan area -- African American,
Caucasian, Hispanic.
The Ezekiel Project
403 South Jefferson Avenue
Saginaw, MI 48607
(989) 755-1602 (0ffice), (989) 755-1747 (Fax) ezekielproject@sbcglobal.net
The Ezekiel
Project, based in the Saginaw metropolitan area, is a congregation-based
community organization with 18 member congregations (to date) led
by Joyce J. Seals of the New Christ Community Church in Saginaw. The
mission of the Ezekiel Project is to empower congregations through
prayer, education, organization, coalition-building, and skill development
to act in faith and love to revitalize the greater Saginaw community
and the region.
JONAH
Organizing for a Better Battle Creek
Co-conveners: William
Wyne 269-963-4640 & Charles Farnum 269-964-1252, BCJonah@yahoo.com
JONAH (Joint-Religious
Organizing Network for Advocacy and Hope) is a new Gamaliel affiliate
officially formed September 2005, based in the Battle Creek area.