Job Opportunity

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Earth Ministry: Program & Outreach Director

Founded in 1992, Earth Ministry’s mission is to inspire and mobilize the Christian community to play a leadership role in building a just and sustainable future. We work in partnership with congregations, individuals, clergy, and other faith-based organizations to practically respond to this great moral challenge through education, individual and congregational lifestyle choices, and organizing for social change through environmental advocacy. Earth Ministry directly supports a network of 150 congregational activists (Colleagues) representing over 100 Puget Sound area congregations, and has a membership of approximately 1,500. While rooted in the Christian faith, many of our members come from diverse spiritual traditions. Our programs and resources are available to all.

DEFINITION
The Program and Outreach Director will have lead staff responsibility for growing Earth Ministry’s outreach program, with special emphasis on engaging members in environmental advocacy and building relationships with Northwest clergy and denominational leadership.

HOW TO APPLY
Email applications are preferred: submit your resume and cover letter in a single Word document titled with your name to search@earthministry.org. Paper applications can be mailed to Earth Ministry, 6512 23rd Ave NW, Suite 317, Seattle, WA 98117. Apply by 5pm on January 19, 2007. Interviews will be scheduled the following week and preference will be given to early applications.

Stewardship of Land and Water: Conference

By February, do you think you might be ready for inspiration and rejuvenation away from daily tasks? Are you curious how Christians can make a difference in the world around us? Would you like to meet other people of faith who work to restore God’s Creation?

Presbyterians for Restoring Creation (PRC) would like to invite you to our first Southeast Regional Conference being held on beautiful St. Simon’s Island, Georgia, February 15th–17th, 2007. Our call to cherish and foster the renewal of God’s creation has inspired the coming together of several experts in the field of conservation, eco-justice, and biblical foundations for an educational event on the Stewardship of Land and Water.

Our plenary speakers include Carol Johnston who served on the PCUSA Eco-Justice Task Force and authored a primer on biblical and theological foundations for ecojustice; Sally Bethea, executive director of the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, who was named among the “Best Eco-warriors” by Atlanta Magazine and is one of the top 100 Most Influential Georgians listed by Georgia Trend Magazine; and Rand Wentworth, President of the Land Trust Alliance, who won the Visionary Regional Leadership Award from the Atlanta Regional Commission for his work in creating a 160 mile greenway along the Chattahoochee River. Staff from PCUSA, regional riverkeepers, and representatives from organizations such as The Nature Conservancy will provide informational and training workshops.

Join us on this journey of faith. If you are unable to attend the full conference length consider joining us for a special luncheon plenary session on Friday with Rand Wentworth.

For more information, check out this website or download this brochure.

NOVEMBER 25 – Buy Nothing Day

“Every November 25, for 24 hours, we remember that no one was born to shop, we make a small choice to participate by not participating. We call it Buy Nothing Day, and judging by the huge successes seen all across the globe last year – with thousands of activists and fed-up citizens taking part in dozens of countries – this year’s festival of restraint could be the biggest yet.

If you’ve never taken part in Buy Nothing Day, or if you’ve taken part in the past but haven’t really committed to doing it again, consider this: 2006 will go down as the year in which mainstream dialogue about global warming finally reached its critical mass. What better way to bring the Year of Global Warming to a close than to point people in the direction of real and effective alternatives to the unbridled consumption that has created this quagmire?”

(excerpted from the adbusters site)

Welcome . . .

This website came out of the New Creation and Ecology class offered in the Fall of 2006. In the course of this class, we came to realize the lack of resources many of us had for living ecologically-friendly lives, especially on campus. The website was our initial attempt to share resources with one another. It is an ever-evolving site that is eager for any and all additional information, ideas, resources, etc. To have something added, e-mail me here and we’ll get it online.

Verse and Voice

Thought I’d share this email. It’s a daily one called “Verse and Voice” from Sojourners.

Verse of the Day:

So I said, “Wisdom is better than might; yet the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heeded.” The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouting of a ruler among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one bungler destroys much good. – Ecclesiastes 9:16-18

Voice of the Day:

When Christian leaders go to government to call for sweeping structural change, we have more integrity and power when we can say: “We are part of Christian communities that are already beginning to live out what we are calling you to legislate.” Our call for costly changes in foreign policy toward the Two-Thirds World designed to implement greater global economic justice has integrity only if we are a part of Christian congregations that are already beginning to incarnate a more simple lifestyle that points toward a more just, ecologically sustainable planet. Our call for nuclear disarmament and international peace has integrity only if there is growing peace and wholeness in our families and churches. – Ronald J. Sider