“My overall Aha! moment has been realizing that good people are in every faith and every community. I have met wonderful Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Bahai, Sikh, etc. people.
Source/Credit: Dayton Daily News
By Pamela Dillon | December 22, 2017
Bushra Shahid of Centerville grew up in Pakistan, a predominantly Muslim country, and had little exposure to other religions. She wanted to reach out to other women to learn about their religions, and also teach them about her Islamic faith. She prayed about this idea so that she might meet someone who shared the same vision.
Her prayers were answered in the summer of 2015, when the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was handing out free literature from a booth at a Third on Third Outdoor Marketplace. That’s when she had the occasion to meet Phyllis Allen, a Dayton resident who attends services at Beth Jacob Synagogue.
“[Bushra Shahid] asked me if I might be interested in a women’s interfaith group, and I gave her my email. I was happy to hear from her months later, and we hoped to each bring five friends together for discussion,” said Allen. “We had 12 women at our first meeting at the mosque. Later, we met Sister Jeanette Buehler and knew she was the right person to join us as the Christian organizer of our fledgling endeavor.”
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