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their fulfill-
ment as
Christians,
but who
need teach-
ers and
guides and
sign-
painters.
And surely
we all know
that a "one-
person
The Rev. James Lyons
show" is a
cop-out whereby we let "him" do
"our" work and we get off easy.
And in that sense, Jim's death is as
big a challenge as it is a loss. It is the
opportunity for us — Jews and Chris-
tians — to make the mission of the
institute our mission, not just us sup-
porting his mission.
That's what was inescapably on our
minds at the Dove Dinner, at this syn-
agogue where Jews and Christians ate
a kosher meal as they honored a min-
ister, a priest and a rabbi, and
expressed their appreciation for a West
Bloomfield Schools program (Ambas-
sadors of Goodwill) that promoted
"Unity in the Community" — an
institute sponsored program.
For now, I'm serving as interim
executive director of the institute.
Interim means between the last direc-
tor and the next, while the search
committee does its job. The institute
has made its decision about the future.
In the meantime, what do we Jews
need to do? Obviously we need to
continue (or begin) our financial sup-
port; we need to sponsor and attend
the institute's programs; we need to
host them and conduct them (and
become prepared, if we're not already).
We need to reach out to our Chris-
tian friends, business associates, and
neighbors for their help as well. All
over this town are programs, lectures,
church-synagogue tours, classes, ecu-
menical trips to Israel (next one prob-
ably in the fall of 1999), friend-raisers,
publications, even an enormous
library that bears the imprimatur of
The Ecumenical Institute.
We need to assure their continu-
ance. And it's not ecumenical if we do
it alone.
Or we can do nothing ... and
go back to the days we didn't have
Jim's dream. But then we'd have to
undo all those Jewish-Christian friend-
ships, all that knowledge and learning,
all that understanding, all that appre-
ciation. And frankly, I really don't
want to do that.

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