 Whether from churches, synagogues, or mosques, Fort Worth residents and faith leaders descended on Casa Minyana for the Connect With Your Community event, and they did not come empty-handed. This event is the Mayor's Faith-Based Cabinet. It's a celebration of community, but more than that, they're giving coats and school supplies to two of our very needy schools in the city, and it really is about the community getting engaged and coming together. Connect With Your Community is the inaugural event of the Mayor's Faith Cabinet, which brings together people of many religious beliefs in support of something all of the groups have faith in — their community. This is the first step to bring us together to celebrate the diversity of the city of Fort Worth and to say, connect yourself with your community. The Faith Cabinet began meeting every other month in January 2012, and the group chose education as the community issue they wanted to address. Children in school shouldn't be considered, oh, I'm in the south of the city, I'm in the west of the city, I'm in zip code one or zip code two. Rather, we want to place the emphasis that each child should have the same opportunities as every other child. The Faith Cabinet also goes beyond education to help create direct connections in the community that can further the city's other initiatives. Several groups have started adding city-produced content, like the weekly Mayor's Messages to their church newsletters, and more opportunities to promote our coming soon. Our parish nurses are working with some of the local schools to see how that they can help the local schools implement some of the ideas that have grown out of the Fit Worth program. Also in 2013, Faith Cabinet plans to bring the collective strength of volunteers in their congregations to bear on a community issue with the day of service. I think what the Mayor did with this Faith Cabinet is she went to a wide broad spectrum of different religions and beliefs, not for one to condescend the other, but at the same time to engage everyone which will in turn engage the city as a whole. To learn more about the Mayor's Faith Cabinet, just visit fortworthtexas.gov slash faith cabinet.