This summer, join First Church’s Green Team members Brenda Mehos and Jana Milford for a series of conversations about the book All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson. Discussions are planned for 9:00 am on the church porch on three Sundays: […]
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Save the Date of Sunday, April 24th for a special event after worship in our church parlor: a screening of the award-winning film This Is [NOT] Who We Are followed by a Q & A with the film’s director, Katrina Miller. We’ll begin with lunch at 12:00 pm, catered by local Latinx caterer Dunia Anzures […]
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2021 Advent Devotional: In the Midst of Changing Ways – Many Gifts, One Spirit Week 4: The Gift of Hope Scripture: Micah 5:4-5 – “And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God. And they shall live secure, for […]
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Climate Change: Working Towards Hope with Dr. Sharon Collinge, Dr. Lisa Dilling, and Dr. Jana Milford Several FUMC Green Team members met for a picnic and climate change discussion on August 24th. It was perfect timing, as many of had been reading in the news about the most recent UN report on climate change, the […]
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A post for Climate Connect, the blog of First Church’s Green Team. I love that one person, or one group of people, can come up with an idea, and it can catch peoples’ attention and become a movement. One person who comes to mind is the young Swedish environmental activist, Greta Thunberg. Plastic Free July […]
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A post for Climate Connect, the blog of First Church’s Green Team. The first Mountain Sky Conference Creation Justice Task Force met on June 24, 2021, on Zoom. Twenty Mountain Sky Conference members were in attendance, and First Church’s representative was Jana Milford. The Task Force was approved on Earth Day, 2021, by Bishop Karen […]
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The MOJO (Mission Outreach Justice Opportunities) Team at First Church invites you to an online screening of the film There Is A Field, and a talk-back with film producer Jen Marlowe and Black Lives Matter artists and activists, on Wednesday, June 16th at 7:00 pm. You must register ahead of time, and you can do […]
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Week 3- December 17 – Our Fragile Earth Reflector: Brenda Mehos The truth snuck into my awareness slowly, from the periphery of my vision. It was like a shadow falling over my face as the sun lowers to the west on a fall day. I would read an article here and there about the Amazon […]
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Plastic waste and pollution is one of our generation’s biggest challenges. It may feel overwhelming, but there are many things that we all can do! I started reducing our family’s use a couple of years ago, and we’ve managed in the past year to reduce our waste sent to the landfill to 10 bags a […]
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On September 20th, three days before the UN Climate Summit in NYC, young people and adults will strike all across the United States and the world to demand transformative action be taken to address the climate crisis. Millions of us will take to the streets to demand a right to a future, and you are […]
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