EcoFaith Summit 2021
During this year unlike any other, many plans and intentions have been put on hold, including creation care efforts in our congregations. Creation care leaders have expressed to us that they feel as though they are (or will be) starting over.
At the same time, new seeds have germinated in this Jubilee Year of Earth Day, even amidst a pandemic. And people like you, committed to the care of creation, are seeking ways to ignite or reignite your whole congregation in this central calling of our faith.
How can we tell stories of a wounded yet wondrous creation in ways that motivate our congregations to actively care? How are each of us, personally and as congregations, part of the Great Story of creation’s healing? How can the green blades of God’s resurrection work be rising in our midst?
Storytelling for the healing of creation is the heart of the April 17 EcoFaith Summit. Through the telling and sharing of personal and biblical stories, we will strengthen the grassroots movement of God’s people to hear the cry of creation and heed God’s call to respond. You, your team, and your congregation are at the heart of this movement!
The event features:
Speaker Professor Barbara Rossing, Professor of New Testament, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, Director of Environmental Studies Program
Storytellers:
Kevin Anderson – Director, Family Freedom Center, Duluth
Johanna Bernu – 8th grade, Descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Ricky Defoe - Spiritual Elder, Pipe Carrier, Fond du Lac Member
Alicia Green - Creation Care Team Member, Lutheran Church of the Cross, Nisswa
Jack Lamar – Early Frost Farms, Embarrass
Tom Uecker – Founder, Duluth Monarch Buddies
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Now the Green Blade Rises Music videos as performed for the Moments of Arising videos, with musical arranger and director Paul Jacobson, and filmmaker Linda Kalweit
Together with the EcoFaith Network of the Minneapolis Area Synod, Lutheran Advocacy Minnesota, Lutherans Restoring Creation, Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light, the St. Paul Area Synod Care of Creation Work Group, and Together Here Ministries - Northeastern Minnesota Synod
2021 EcoFaith Summit Recordings: