Connecting through Love, Building and Nurturing the Flame
Stewardship is the act of responsibly managing and caring for something that has been entrusted to us. Just like a flame needs fuel, oxygen, and constant attention to keep burning, love also requires constant care and effort to thrive. Our community and the resources needed to maintain and nurture it, have been entrusted to the whole congregation. This service marks the beginning of this year’s stewardship campaign. Come, let’s celebrate our annual gathering of resources that supports our community.
We’ll meet in Adams Hall to learn about Michigan initiatives to protect our right to vote and to write letters and postcards to get out the vote. Our letters and postcards will encourage reluctant or new voters to use their voice and will count toward our Good Trouble Congregation designation.
“Climate Change as of 2022: Simple, Serious, Solvable,” will be a fact-based look at the scientific state of the issues and impacts involved in climate change, localized in many ways to Michigan. We will explore, in a hopeful way, a range of ideas to address the significant challenges we face, including what each of us can do.
Jaike SpottedWolf will be speaking about how we can break cycles of Indigenous erasure and how we can invite principals of First Peoples back into mainstream culture. We will learn how harmful colonization has been to sovereign nations in Turtle Island and how those themes also harm non-Native, settler descendants.
