Representatives from four Lutheran congregations in the greater Madison area met in January, 2010, as part of LCF’s "Engaging Lutheran Congregations through Sense of Place" pilot project.
The focus of the Creation Care Environmental Initiative is to help church congregations reduce their energy footprint and promote leadership around creation care among pastors, laity and resident theologians within the Lutheran community.
Through this initiative, the LCF has provided funding to develop a model to engage Lutheran congregations in a process of cultivating a theologically-grounded sense of place as gift and responsibility. Guidance and support will be piloted to four Lutheran congregations in Wisconsin through online and offline resources, coaching, networking and trainings. The January, 2010 event took place at Advent Lutheran Church in Madison, Wisconsin.
Pastor Jeff Wild shares some of the creation care projects his congregation has undertaken, including The Madison Christian Community Gardening Project.
Peter Bakken takes congregational members through a workbook which provides resources and a study-action program for their congregation. This orientation and the materials provided is helping jump start project ideas to ground their congregation in a sense of place. Each congregation will be determining a project to undertake.
A conference participant listens to Peter Bakken and takes notes.
Conference attendees brainstorm together to determine what their first step is going to be when they leave this orientation in starting to implement a project at their congregation.
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