“Building Resilience: Congregations in a Climate-Changed World”

May 1-2 at Montreat Conference Center

Register Here for one or both days.

* REGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 27 *

Creation Care Alliance will gather people of faith from across the southern Blue Ridge fora conference on creation care, disaster recovery, and building community resilience. Day 1 will feature creation care activities and spiritual experiences around beautiful Montreat that will inspire you and your creation care work. Day 2 will explore faithful creation care through workshops and feature a panel discussing how the work of disaster response and resilience-building is re-energizing faith communities and elevating their value to their communities.

Friday, May 1: Creation Care Experiences to Inspire and to Try at Home

• Interfaith Creation Care Service w/Susannah Tuttle of NC Council of Churches’ Eco-Justice Connection preaching
• Awe Walk led by Rev. David Carter Florence of Black Mountain Presbyterian Church
• Nature Hike with Jason Nance, Montreat’s Wilderness Director
• Reclaim-the-River Ritual led by Sarah Skinner, Montreat Program Director and Associate with the Kaleidoscope Institute 
• Writing Workshop – Lauren Graeber, Author and writing coach

Saturday, May 2: Workshops and Conversations

• Disaster Recovery, Resilience-Building, and Their Impact on Congregations

A Conversation/Panel Discussion

• Writing Workshop – Lauren Graeber, Author and writing coach

• Green Burial w/Mallory McDuff, Environmental Studies professor at Warren Wilson College and author of “Natural Saints,” “Sacred Acts,” “Love Your Mother,” and “Our Last Best Act”
• Beyond Activism: Why We Need Community Organizing and What It Can Do.” w/Professors Dan Rhodes and Tim Conder of the Black Mountain School for Theology and Community

• Housing & Faith Communities: The Creation Care Connection w/Susan Bean, Housing and Transportation Director at MountainTrue
• Disaster, Climate, and Mission: Preparing the Church for What’s Next w/Brian Mateer and/or Maggie Armstrong at WNC Conference of the United Methodist Church’s Disaster Ministries
• Going Solar – Best practices and benefits

Come with an open heart and mind. Leave with ideas, connections, and actions that strengthen creation care ministries and foster partnerships with climate-connected faith communities.