Learn how to be an effective advocate for climate justice in your community. Join this online, one-semester training in the art of faith-rooted community organizing to build skills, knowledge, spiritual grounding, and a community of support. After a three-day training with your cohort, you will be mentored by a
Continue readingWorld Water Day 2022 We celebrated our 7th annual World Water Day with a conversation on faith and science between Rev. Dr. Dan Smith and Professor Peter Moyle about their collaboration and partnership with Putah Creek watershed restoration. The event also included Mixtec agricultural workers from Iglesia Luterana Santa Cruz,
Continue readingThe Justice Team continued to meet most months through Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at the Synod Office. We heard reports from several of our committees or task forces. In February The Rev. Dr. Alexia Salvatierra and Dixie Hansen reported on the circles of care formed to help immigrant youth who
Continue readingWe can't meet at the LA River this year, but we can join together from our homes, study, and take action to protect water and the environment that has been entrusted to us to steward. We are an Easter People, but we are also a Water People, both in our
Continue readingIn 2015, St. Andrew’s, Los Angeles received a Synod Mission and Ministry Grant in order to refurbish their courtyard with artificial turf, part of their mission to reach out to families in their neighborhood and continue on their path to making their campus more environmentally friendly. They also received a rebate from
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