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Supporting a Sustainable Race Workshop

August 22, 2016 by Joy Williams, Former PHW Regional Coordinator

A Sustainable Race: Opening New Streams of Justice in our Environmental and Food Systems will be held September 16-17 2016 at the Franklinton Center at Bricks in Whitakers, NC.

Hanging up the phone, I couldn’t believe the heart to heart connection I felt. I had just spoken to the Reverend Dele, a  visiting professor in permaculture at Virginia Union University. She was recently accepted to the Foundations for Christian Leadership program at Duke. She also has served as a consultant with NCIPL, who is also co-sponsoring this event.

I have learned that the Rev. Dele has many abilities that include contemplative practices and social activism, and she uses her skills as a Climate Reality Leader to assist churches to model sustainability efforts in underserved communities.

For young adults in NC, she is organizing a retreat to train leaders in environmental and food justice. Our food movement will not move without the voices of the youth and young adults. These young people need to know a different reality– one that supports, encourages, and allows all to have the right to access to healthy local foods, and a safe environment.

Rev. Dele is calling all voices to action. She says, “Justice is required to sustain life on our common home – the Earth. Humans must behave and act differently towards each other as well as the planet if we are to become a sustainable race.”

During the leadership training you can expect to see:

  • Contemplative practices that loosen the personal strands we hold to environmental and food injustices. The goal is to transform, heal, and nurture our spirits for the work of Earth justice.
  • Group exercises that name injustices, organize working groups across disciplines, and create new hope-filled streams of knowing and being.
  • Dialogue that creates plans of action to be shared in other justice venues.

Rev. Dele will be accompanied by the Rev. Steve Halsted who will co-facilitate the workshop with her. The Rev. Steve Halsted is a retired United Church of Christ clergy person from the Massachusetts, Southwest, and Southern Conferences and Congregational Consultant for North Carolina Interfaith Power & Light.

You can register for the event at www.revdele.com.

EARLY BIRD Registration of $187 includes 1night lodging, 3 meals plus the transformative workshop! $200 beginning August 1st.

Filed Under: Blog, Events Tagged With: Children & Youth, Come to the Table, Food

About Joy Williams, Former PHW Regional Coordinator

I am passionate about health and faith. Children, families, and elders have my deepest love and concern, and I've cultivated a heart for dance, plants, cooking, water, chilling with great friends, and talking about the matters of the heart. I love the Lord and seek to bring myself and others closer to The King Most High.
Learn more about PHW and our efforts to improve the health of God’s people: healthandwholeness.org

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