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2010 Critical Issues Seminar

July 12, 2010 by chris

Loving God’s Creation: Fully Integrating Creation Care with the Church’s Mission and Ministry

Thursday, October 14, 2010
9:00am-4:30pm
Congregational United Church of Christ
400 W. Radiance Dr.

Greensboro, NC
Cost: $25 / $15 student (limited scholarships available)

Click here to download an event flyer.

The program is listed below.  

It is not too late to attend this event! Please call or e-mail us and we will personally register you. Call 919-828-6501 or e-mail nccofc@nccouncilofchurches.org. Lunch cannot be guaranteed but we will do everything possible to accommodate you.


8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-10:15 Opening Session, Sanctuary

  • Invocation and Hymn; Rev. Julie Peeples, Pastor, Congregational UCC, Greensboro.
  • Welcome and Introduction of the Keynote Speaker; George Reed, Executive Director, NC Council of Churches.
  • Keynote Address; Rev. Canon Sally Bingham, Founder and President of The Regeneration Project.

10:30-11:30 Workshop Session I

  • The Price of Color and Poverty: Economic Justice and How the Poor and People of Color Pay More; DeWayne Barton, Co-founder, Asheville Green Opportunities Training Team (Asheville GO).
  • Legislating Creation Care in the NC General Assembly; Pricey Harrison, Member, North Carolina House of Representatives.
  • Transitioning our Congregations: Relocalizing and Reskilling through Outreach; Rev. Joe Hoffman, pastor, First Congregational UCC, Asheville, and Richard Fireman, emergency room physician (retired) and Public Policy Coordinator, NC IPL.
  • Sustaining Creation, Sustaining Self: Spiritual Tools to Navigate the Environmental Crisis; Claudia Horwitz, Director, Stone Circles.
  • Growing Hope: Congregations and Community Gardening; Rev. Kate Forer, Director, and others from Anathoth Community Garden, Cedar Grove.
  • Preaching on Creation: Understanding the Ecological Message of the Bible; Norman Wirzba, Research Professor of Theology, Ecology, and Rural Life, Duke Divinity School.

11:45-1:00 Luncheon, Fellowship Hall

1:15-2:15 Workshop Session II

  • Making the Connection between the Health of People and the Health of Creation; Katherine M. Shea MD, MPH, Adjunct Professor, Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill.
  • Embracing Space as Sacred: A Tale of Three Houses of Worship; Bob Rodriguez of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh; Martha Fullington of the Cathedral of All Souls, Asheville; and Rev. Paul Davis, Congregational UCC, Greensboro.
  • Bearing Witness and Responding to Natural Disaster: How to Integrate the Environment into Your Congregation’s Environmental Advocacy and Disaster Response; Mallory McDuff, Environmental Studies, Warren Wilson College.
  • The Relationship Between Climate Change and Immigration; Jill Rios, former executive director, NC IPL, Asheville; Rev. Austin Rios, rector, La Capilla de Santa Maria, Hendersonville.
  • Bringing Nature to Christian Education: Ideas, Resources, and Attempts; Vicki Garlock, Jubilee! Community, Asheville.

2:30-3:30 Workshop Session III

  • Understanding and Participating in the Political Process: How to Effectively and Faithfully Legislate Change for Creation in the NC General Assembly; George Reed, Executive Director, NC Council of Churches.
  • Embracing Space as Sacred: A Tale of Three Houses of Worship (repeated).
  • Growing Hope: Congregations and Community Gardening (repeated).
  • Brewing Justice: Fellowship and Fair Trade Coffee; Rev. John Odom, Starmount Presbyterian Church, Greensboro.
  • Transitioning our Congregations: Relocalizing and Reskilling through Outreach (repeated).

3:45  Benediction, Sanctuary; Rev. Canon Sally Bingham

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Environment

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