11/10/19- Service

For this week’s service at Nur-Allah, we attended a banquet called the parent’s banquet. This banquet is an annual banquet that is hosted to honor and appreciate all of the parents that are a part of the Nur-Allah mosque and the Indianapolis area Muslim community. Nur-Allah, the mosque that we volunteer at, hosted the event. Anna, Lauren, and I arrived early so that we could help set up and start helping with the event. Anna and I helped escort guests that arrived at their table, while Lauren helped with selling tickets for the event. The actual event included dinner, awards, and two speakers. One of the speakers was an honorary Iman, and the other speaker is the president of Martin University- which is a University in Indianapolis that is a historically black university. After getting everyone their seats, dinner was served and the event started. The event started with an opening prayer, nd the pledge of allegiance. After these happened, the awards hahappenedThe first award was the parent(s) of the year, where three sets of parents were honored. The first couple were members of Nur-Allah who have three children, with two of the children being under the age of two. The couple spoke about the hardships, but also the happiness of parenting. The next rerecipientas a single father with three daughters. The last two recepiants were actually memebers of the Catholic church, but are friends with Nur-Allah. The next award was given to two trailblazers in the church. After awards, the speakers began and both of the spekaers gave enlgihting speeches about parenting and how it intertwinces with faith. The entire event was a special, adn heartwarming evening. There were a lot of poeple there, but everybody knew eachother- which made the room feel like a community, and they welcomed us three with open arms.