EcoFaith Action Network

Northwest Intermountain Synod's EcoFaith Action Network is planning its first offering of 2025. What should it be? A book study? A workshop? Something else? We’re considering several possibilities. Please answer the following questions to give us your thoughts on them. You also can submit more detailed comments and suggestions for future activities via email to EcoFaithNWIM@gmail.com.

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* 1. Which of the following would you be most likely to participate in, assuming it's offered at a time and place that fits your schedule.

Online book study related to creation care

Online session(s) with information and resources to help congregations plan Earth Day activities

Online session providing information for you (either individually or with your congregation) to do a placed-based, outdoor reflection on meeting the Creator in the elements of creation

Online energy efficiency workshop for church facilities

Other (please specify)

None of the above

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* 2. What would you like EcoFaith Action Network to offer that wasn't included in the list for question 1?

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* 3. If EcoFaith Action Network offered an online book study, which of the following books is of most interest to you?

Come, Have Breakfast: Meditations on God and Earth by Elizabeth A. Johnson; A series of ecological and theological meditations on the holy mystery within creation, the hospitality it extends to all creatures, and our role within it.

Coming Home to Earth by Mark Brocker; A story of Brocker's journey to understanding how Lutheran theology calls us to love Earth as the Creator does, both lamenting ways we've fallen short and naming ways that we, as a "prodigal species," can come home to our place on Earth.

Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard by Doug Tallamy (with supplemental theological readings); A look at how re-wilding portions of yards and church grounds with native plants can restore wholeness and life to a place.

Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth by Randy Woodley; A series of essays, reflection questions, and suggested practices from an Indgenous perspective to connect us with the water, land, plants, creatures, and people where we live.

Other (please specify)

None of the above

EcoFaith Action Network

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* 1. Which of the following would you be most likely to participate in, assuming it's offered at a time and place that fits your schedule.

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* 2. What would you like EcoFaith Action Network to offer that wasn't included in the list for question 1?

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* 3. If EcoFaith Action Network offered an online book study, which of the following books is of most interest to you?

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* 4. Optional: Provide your email if you would like to receive direct email notices of EcoFaith Action Network's activities.