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April 2025 Newsletter

Earth Day is celebrated this year just two days after Easter. As I was thinking about what to say, I came across these words by Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas in a sermon that she delivered in 2022.

Protect the NorthWest Forests

Trees and healthy forests have massive climate, environmental, and spiritual benefits. We need to be planting more trees and protecting our standing forests as invaluable carbon sinks. But now, the US Forest Service is proposing to open up 800,000 acres of previously protected Northwest Forest.

March 2025 Newsletter

Lent begins with a call to re-pentance, which means to turn around. Perhaps we can think about this in terms of re-cognizing. Cognition is to learn, to see, to discover, to perceive. So, what do you need to re-learn, to re-see, to re-discover, to re-perceive in this Lenten season?

February 2025 Newsletter

The news has been coming at us thick and fast in the past two weeks, but we are not alone. Paraphrasing Paul (Phil 4:13), together, we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.

Ideas for Lent Studies 2025

In this issue are four ideas for climate justice studies during Lent. “Rising to the Call: 7 Big Questions” is a FREE downloadable study using the Lent Year C gospel Lectionary readings.

January 2025 Newsletter

God is making all things new. God is in the process of perfecting the world and each of us. So, we need to start practicing living like we have been made new! Like the magi, let us leave Christmas and enter the New Year by a different route.

December 2024 Newsletter

As people of hope, we remember that we are never alone, for God chose this place in which to enter into the darkness as Emmanuel, God with us. May we be compelled in this time of division to be the light in the world, advocating both individually and in community for climate justice.

Advent 2024 Special Issue

In this special advent emailing you will find an idea for an Advent Discipline, a list of books on Climate Change and a set of tips and giving ideas.

November 2024 Newsletter

This Fall, I am thankful for all of you and the work that you do. I know that sometimes it seems never ending and often disappointing. But let’s celebrate the little things and remember that God will never leave us nor forsake us, and that through it all God loves each one us.

Be a Force for Change

In this article entitled “Be a Force for Change, Earth Month in Wesleyan Style: Do No Harm,” Rev. Dr. Judith Pruess-Mellow describes some of the work that she has been doing, placing it in a Wesleyan context and sharing the questions that she has asked and many resources that she has found to be useful in her work.

October 2024 Newsletter

Our 2024-25 Priorities. Our Climate Justice Ministries task force has set some specific priorities for this year. Four of these goals are to …

Election Special

Election Day on November 5th is drawing near. Those of us who are eligible to vote in US elections have the opportunity now to express our faithful values through voting.

August 2024 Newsletter

Transition Time! The California-Nevada Climate Justice Ministries Task Force is now two years old! Welcome to our third year. Our thanks to Sharon Delgado, as our outgoing chairperson, for all her hard work. Joan Pell has taken on the role of chairing the task force