Compassion, Peace, and Justice Training Day Workshops Announced!

 

Compassion, Peace, and Justice Training Day Workshops Announced!

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CPJ Training Day: April 24, 2020 - experts from within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) along with our partners, will lead workshops on issues around climate change and Presbyterian work on climate justice. Some of the workshops that will be offered on this training day include:

 

Addressing Environmental Racism Through the Lens of Corporate Engagement/Social Responsibility: This workshop will highlight how the committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) has incorporated the directive from the 223rd General Assembly on Environmental Racism into its work of engaging corporations on social responsibility. This conversation will detail the committee’s recent experiences engaging communities affected by environmental racism and climate change in South Louisiana and Detroit and will include first-hand accounts from Emma Lockridge, a community organizer from Detroit, MI. Participants will discuss healthy methodologies of engaging the issue of environmental racism in their own communities, and will explore how people of faith can navigate and engage the moral complexities of our modern economy.

 

The Church, Public Education, and Climate Change: Global climate change threatens the future of today’s students. Public schools have a responsibility to teach about climate change as science and engage students to make a difference. They deserve to know the facts and learn how they can help save the planet. Churches can advocate and support their local schools in doing this. This workshop will begin by looking at our denominations policy on public education and how to develop an appropriate relationship between a congregation and local schools. At a time when some religious voices encourage schools to deny climate change, it is important that Christian communities that do not see science as a threat to faith speak up and become involved in public education. The workshop will also introduce the Education Covenant and provide time for conversation on how best to ensure that our schools do not teach a religious point of view that contradicts science.

 

Indigenous Environmental Justice: This workshop will present information about the grassroots Indigenous peoples and individuals who actively address environmental and economic justice issues. The Native environmental justice movement springs from our love for Mother Earth and our connection to all of creation. The need for Indigenous Environmental Justice grew from the wounds inflicted upon the earth from the collective greed of humanity.

 

Moving Forward: Climate Action for Congregations: As people of faith, we desire to serve God and our neighbors, to pursue peace in our communities, and to work toward a just society. Changes to our climate touch us all, especially impacting the most vulnerable among us. That is why climate change is often called the greatest moral imperative of our time. If we are called to support the most vulnerable, to work for justice, and to care for creation, then we are called to respond to climate change. The Presbyterian Hunger Program along with our partner, Blessed Tomorrow, is here to help. Join us for this workshop using Moving Forward: A Guide to Climate Action For Your Congregation and Community as we provide you with information and resources to reduce energy use, to build resilient houses of worship as refuges from a changing climate, and to encourage support for policies that better care for creation.

 

Some additional training day workshops include: Carbon Dividends for Climate Justice, Climate Change and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Promoting Environmental Justice through Watershed Restoration, and Storytelling and Environmental Justice: Our Experiences Create Change. For a full list of the CPJ Training Day workshops, click here.

 

 

Imagine! God's Earth and People Restored
April 24-27
Washington, DC

We believe that God created this world, called it good, and told humans to care for it.
We are blessed to have this sacred task.

For more information or to register for Ecumenical Advocacy Days, click here.