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Restoring Harmony with God’s Creation: Promoting Life with Our Landscaping
September 11, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The act of landscaping can be so much more than just aesthetics; it can be a deeply meaningful process that reconnects us with nature and fosters a thriving ecosystem around our churches and homes. By choosing native plants, removing non-native invasive species, and creating healthier wildlife habitats, we can strengthen the web of life in our communities and restore harmony with God’s creation. Learn more about this process and a related resolution that was passed at the UMC General Conference in May 2024.
Kim Richmond is the Lay Chairperson of the Creation Care Ministry for the Western North Carolina Conference of the UMC, as well as a commissioned UM EarthKeeper since 2017. Kim is the primary author of UM Resolution #1214: Church Land Use, which passed at General Conference 2024, and which is the topic for this webinar.
Dr. Denise Nepveux is a member of Storied Church UMC in Mebane, where she serves as the creation care liaison and volunteers with fellow church members in the Haw River Assembly RiverWatch program. She is also a Certified Wildlife Habitat Steward for the NC Wildlife Federation. Her day job is Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy at Duke University Medical Center, where she was honored as a 2024 recipient of the Climate Commitment Leadership Award.
Rah Bickley is the president of the Durham Wildlife Stewards, a local chapter of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation. Rah completed the North Carolina Master Naturalist program through the N.C. State University Extension Service, and earned a certificate in Therapeutic Horticulture at the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Since 2023, she has led a group of local volunteers to remove a half-acre of Chinese privet from her subdivision’s common area, plant native plants, and works to restore the ecosystem for native plants, animals, and humans.
This event is part of the Season of Creation 2025 webinar series. Learn about and register for the other webinars in this series.
