Love God, Love God's World - 6:00 p.m.
"A Vision for Right Relationship with the Land"
30 October 20246:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Good Shepherd Church
27 Good Shepherd Rd
Bluemont, VA 20135
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Come join us as we celebrate God's creation and discover how it relates to our faith in Christ Jesus. Love God, Love God’s World is a nine-session, film-based curriculum, ideal for Episcopalians anywhere on the journey with creation care and environmental ministry.
We will start each session with a short celebration of creation in our Prayer & Meditation Garden, weather permitting. Then we will move into the parish hall for light snacks and discussion of the evening's lesson. Each online lesson has a specific theme and consists of a short film, readings, and discussion questions.
If you are interested in exploring this ministry, please register with Cindy Ingram so she can set up your online access to the lessons and provide you a password, which will allow you to study the lesson materials before each in-person meeting.
The course is divided into three Sections composed of three Sessions each. We will be completing Section One - "What is God's Dream" - this Fall and will start up again with Sections Two and Three in the new year.
WED Sep 18th - Session One "God so Loved the World"
Author: The Rev. Canon Stephanie Speller
Theme: Exploring God’s love for creation and forming small group circles through storytelling by articulating individual experiences of love and grief in relation to creation
WED Oct 9th - Session Two "Water & Our Baptismal Covenant"
Author: Ashley Hubbard, Canon for Formation, Diocese of South Dakota
Theme: Connecting the work of creation to our baptismal covenant through water stewardship.
WED Oct 30th - Session Three "A Vision for Right Relationship with the Land & Covenant with the Creator"
Author: The Rev Rachel Taber-Hamilton
Theme: Participating in story-sharing from an Indigenous perspective: land; living in "right-relationship" with creation' and Indigenous sovereighty and stewardship.
Primary Resources:
Film: “Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring our World” (1hr 16min)
Reading: Chapter 4 | “Smohalla: If the Land has Anything to Say” from “We Survived the End of the World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope” by Steven Charleston, published by Broadleaf Books (2023).
Optional Resources:
Film: “Indigenous Land Stewardship: Tending Nature” (57 min)
All sessions run from 6 pm - 7:30 pm.
Additional curriculum information is available on The Episcopal Church website.
