Embracing the Spirit: Community Innovation Challenge Website is LIVE!⚡

Community Innovation Challenge Website is Live Today!     Exciting news! More than 10 Community Innovation Challenges are set to happen across Canada in the remainder of 2021! During a Community Innovation Challenge, a community of faith joins community organizations to develop and implement innovative ways to solve a social issue together. The power of partnership strengthens communities, making them better places for everyone to live! EDGE: Network for Ministry Development thanks the partners that are making this exciting journey possible: Centennial College, the Community Innovation Hub, the Economic Developers Council of Ontario (EDCO), the Rural Ontario Institute, the Tamarack Institute and The United Church of Canada. Visit the Community Innovation Challenge website to learn more. The Green Exodus: Earth Jam     Congratulations to The Green Exodus team! The Green Exodus gathered online during the winter and spring of 2021 to realign their relationship with the earth using practices of Indigenous, Christian, and Buddhist wisdom traditions and of conservationists and earth keepers. These practices included meditation, poetry, land acknowledgment, land embodiment, contemplative photography, deep time walk, community conversations, and hospitality. Over the next three months they will create ways to participate in the Season of Creation (September 1 – October 11), including Earth Jam 2021 (September 8 – October 8.) Earth Jam is an opportunity to join with others, online and in place, to engage about the climate crisis and talk about how to stop it together. We need your voice and your willingness to act, so please join us! Visit The Green Exodus to get more information and to register. Upcoming EDGE Events   Be sure to put these EDGE events on your calendar! EDGEy Conversation: What Does Following the Spirit Look like? August 30,1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET. We talk a lot about energy and following it. What does that look like in practice? Join the EDGE team to discover what energy looks and feels like.  EDGEy Conversation: Huron Shores United Church. September 13, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET. Charles Macdonald talks about Huron Shores and how it came to embrace the community hubs model of thinking. Idea Day, September 27, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET. Want to connect with others thinking creatively? Come to either share your idea or support others! View the EDGE Calendar or email embracingthespirit@united-church.ca for more information. Embracing the Spirit is a learning network and innovation fund. It offers funding and support for innovation ideas hatched out of faith communities and communities in ministry. Some of the stories and best practices that are happening throughout The United Church of Canada are shared in this newsletter. If you have an idea that you want to launch, reach out and tell us about it! Proposal deadlines are quarterly, and due on the 15th of the month: January, April, July and October. Find out more.  Share Tweet Forward to a friend Sign up for the Embracing the Spirit newsletter! Facebook Twitter Website Email Instagram YouTube LinkedIn Donate to The United Church of Canada and help fund life changing work around the world!

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