2015 Preach In

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 This is a Kairos Moment

(if this weekend does not work choose another time up until Earth Day or have two events)
You can offer a homily, prayers, film, educational session, or have the action postcards or letter to sign supporting clean air at a table after your weekend service. (please send signed letter or cards from kit to Sr. Joan for delivery in person to leaders).
To make it even easier we are offering resources in addition to those on the national IPL website.   Click here for resources for teaching and preaching

  • Twelve Reasons to Preach on Climate Change
  • Ten Facts from Climate Scientists
  • Ten Biblical Themes for Preaching on Climate Change
  • Three Stumbling Blocks for Faith Leaders, and Strategies to Overcome Them
  • Print and Online Resource Lists

Be one of a growing number of faith communities to sign up for prayer, education and action for climate justice in this Kairos moment. Help NMIPL engage at least 50 faith communities in New Mexico. 

Celebrating Faith and Sustainability – Annual Fall Harvest Gathering

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New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light (NMIPL)

Annual Fall Harvest Gathering

Sat. Nov. 15, 2014, 2-4 pm

First Unitarian Church, ABQ

Rev. Fletcher Harper, Director of Green Faith

Come at 1:15 to tour the new Platinum LEED Sanctuary and learn how First Unitarian installed solar through a lease agreement

Special Presentation
“Faith, Money, Earth and Divestment”
Rev. Fletcher Harper, Director of GreenFaith

Some call this the watershed moment for climate change.  How you invest your money as an individual, faith community, diocese or judicatory matters.
Numerous religious institutions are divesting from fossil fuels including: World Council of Churches, United Church of Christ, and Unitarian Universalists. Presbyterian Church USA and the Methodist Conference are considering divestment and a growing number of local Episcopal dioceses and
congregations of various traditions including Friend’s Meeting Houses and Catholic institutions are joining the divestment/reinvestment climate justice call. Come learn why and how.

*Celebrate faith communities and individuals receiving SEED and SPROUT awards for stewardship, energy efficiency and renewable energy work
*Learn about NMIPL’s current work *Join in a great silent auction
*Enjoy music & amazing homemade snacks and desserts

Download the flyer: Annual meeting flyer (2)

Young, old and everyone is invited. Spread the word.
Information at joan@nm-ipl.org or check our website www.nm-ipl.org

 

World Food Day Dinner – Saturday, October 18, 6 pm

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World Food Day Dinner

Saturday, October 18, 6 pm

First Congregational Church, ABQ, 2801 Lomas NE (off Girard)

NMIPL and OXFAM are joining together to celebrate World Food Day and make the connections with food, climate change and food security and food sovereignty. Enjoy a great local produce meal and inspirational speakers connecting food, local economy and climate change. All are welcome!

Meal is no charge—Great Presentations—Wonderful Community Sharin

Evelyn Salce Curtis Losack – Guest Speaker

Evelyn Salce Curtis Losack is a music teacher, writer,
photographer and farmer. The story of her Corrales community told (and pictured) in If There’s Squash Bugs in Heaven, I Ain’t Staying: Learning to Make the Perfect Pie, Sing When You Need To, and Find the Way Home With Farmer Evelyn. Spragg-Braude worked for many years as a photographer for
the Albuquerque Tribune. Her many works also include a portfolio focused on Bulgaria’s Roma community and the book To Walk in Beauty: A
Navajo Family’s Journey Home.

Download the Flyer here:

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Co-sponsored by OXFAM Action Corps and NM Interfaith Power and Light

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