Show-Me Creation Care Conference
Features speakers on environmental consciousness, faith-based stewardship, sustainable communities, recycling and more. Includes recycling collection for used electronics.
April 25, 2009 – 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Community United Methodist Church
3301 W. Broadway
Columbia, Mo.
Workshop leaders include:
- Barbara Buffaloe, a housing specialist with the University of Missouri Extension – speaking on household conservation
- Ma’ikwe Schaub Ludwig, who lives at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage and teaches ecovillage design courses, consensus and facilitation – speaking on sustainable communities
- Eric Chamberlain, manager of Wind Farm Operations for Wind Capital Group, St. Louis, Mo. – speaking on sustainable communities
- Fonda Davis, a teacher who has been recycling for 15 years and bringing Fair Trade to a number of churches in northern Missouri – speaking on simple living
- Don Day, who coordinates energy education programs for University Extension – speaking on renewable and sustainable energy
- John Hill, director of Economic and Environmental Justice at the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society – speaking on global warming
- Cleo Kottwitz, retired United Methodist pastor with a passion to care for God’s Creation and an advocate for the message from Lester Brown’s book Plan B
- Kiersa Toll, a Columbia native who works for the Missouri Recycling Association – speaking on household recycling
- Mark Van Patton, a fisheries management biologist for the Missouri Department of Conservation – speaking on the Stream Team
- Rev. Pat Watkins, an ordained United Methodist minister with a passion for raising awareness of the connection between faith and taking care of God’s creation – giving the keynote address and speaking on the green church
Participants are invited to:
- Read the creation care information that is shared in the MissouriConference Review
- Share the stories of their faith community’s efforts to be good stewards of the earth
- Have a worship celebration for God’s gift of the earth at least one Sunday a year
- Commit to continuing to live a sustainable life
The conference is open to all faiths. For more information, see http://www.umocm.com/creationcare.htm. Registration is required.