Greetings!
Blessings this day! I just wanted to alert you to several wonderful events coming up!!!!!
More With Less Fest
Saturday, June 8, 9-3
Burton Park (Carlisle & Kathryn SE, ABQ
Sponsored by ABQ Mennonite Church
A learning fair and celebration! Building health communities, sustainability, permaculture, backyard farming, food preservation, urban bee keeeping, birding and backyard habitat, simple living, bike maintenance, food truck, kid's events, homegrown music and more!!!! More Life and Less Stuff....all are invited!!!!! www.abqmennonite.org.
Refugia Earth Prayer
Monday, June 10, 7-8:15
1004 Major Ave. NW, ABQ
In this last Earth Sabbath celebration sponsored by NMIPL, ABQ for the summer, we will engage in prayer and sharing around the theme Refugia.
When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, the ash-laden blast leveled forests. Scientists thought it would take centuries for life to spread. But now, only thirty years later, the mountain is carpeted in moss and purple lupine and laced with the tracks of deer and fox.
Scientists learned that when the mountain blasted ash across the landscape, the devastation never touched some small places hidden in the lee of rocks and trees. "Refugia," scientists called them: places of safety where life endures. From the refugia, small animals emerged blinking onto the blasted plain. And from a thousand, ten thousand, maybe countless small places of enduring life, meadows returned to the mountain.
This suggests that if destructive forces are building under our lives, then our work is to create refugia of the imagination. Refugia: places where new ideas are sheltered and encouraged to grow.
Everyone is welcome! RSVP, if possible, so there can be enough chairs set up outdoors. joanbrown@nm-ipl.org.
Spiriuality & Sustainability Training Camp for Junior and Senior High Youth
Monday, July 29-aturady, August 4, 2013
Ghost Ranch, Abiqui
Come spend a week immersing yourself in the beauty f Northern New Mexico, share community, learn about sustainable practices and participate in experiences with nature, food production, service, your faith and so much more. Follow-up includes a project in home faith communities. Limited to 40 junior and senior high you and 10 adult leaders. Download Flyer. Information/Registration: www.GhostRanch.org (select Workshops-Online Catalog-Youth Service Corps) Course # G13YS751.
Joan Brown,osf Executive Director, NM Interfaith Power and Light |
