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Loving People and Planet in God’s Name
The Corridor district Lay Servant Ministries team presents the Loving People and Planet in God’s Name Course with Jane Almon and Kellie Gallagher…
July 27 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
$25
in person ( includes vegetarian lunch)
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All participants are expected to read the participant book, Climate Justice A Call to Hope and Action, before taking this course.
About the Course: This course empowers lay participants to engage local churches in creation care and environmental justice. Lay participants will see this work as the appropriate response of disciples of Jesus Christ to the realities of climate change. Using the new revised second edition of Climate Justice: A Call to Hope and Action, this course helps communities grow deeper in their faith through the caring creation of practical and context-specific spiritual practices that mitigate the effects of reckless human consumption.
For questions about the course, please contact Vicki Ambrose (vambrose@nccumc.org), or Allen Burden (ga57burden@gmail.com), Corridor district co-directors of Lay Servant Ministries.
About the Facilitators
The Rev. Jane Almon is an Elder in the North Carolina Conference, retiring in June 2024 after 13 years of pastoral ministry. Before she was a pastor, Jane was an ecologist and worked on ecological restoration and watershed assessment projects and environmental impact studies. Her call to ministry came in part in that context as she saw how the separation of humans from God and God’s good creation was contributing to the destruction of ecosystems and communities.
Jane serves on the Conference and Corridor District Creation Care Teams, and is passionate about joining with others to proclaim God’s vision for the flourishing all of creation. She walks in the woods every chance she gets, enjoying the beauty and rhythms of the natural world and keeping up her birding and plant identification skills.
The Rev. Kellie Gallagher is originally from Oconto Falls, Wisconsin. A graduate of St. Olaf College and Duke Divinity School, Kellie is an ordained elder in the NC Conference of the UMC. Kellie has served in the NC Conference as a pastor for 28 years at Pine View UMC in Lumberton, Lucama UMC, Bailey/Pleasant Grove UMC (Associate), Trinity UMC in Louisburg and Gillburg UMC. She is currently serving as the pastor of First UMC Elon. First Elon has an active Creation Care ministry that has engaged in community gardening and currently provides opportunities for the church and local community to drop off Styrofoam for recycling in a trailer in the church parking lot. We also have recycling bins in the church for batteries, eyeglasses, soda tabs, ink cartridges and coffee pods. The CAT (Creation Advocacy Team) at Elon has written letters to legislators encouraging the passage of the Farm Bill and gun reform laws as well as sharing monthly CAT tips of ways the congregation can be better stewards of God’s creation.
Kellie and her husband Paul (retired) live in Whitsett. They enjoy spending time at the beach, fishing and canoeing. Kellie loves to read and she and Paul are fans of the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team. Kellie has two grown children, Dottie and Wilson.
We regret that we are unable to issue refunds or credits of registration fees.