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Climate Care and the Canadian Church


Climate Care and the Canadian landscape

Thursdays: Oct 24, 31, Nov 7 & 14th
1:30 - 3pm ET online

Learning Centre sessions are recorded and made available afterwards for those who sign up but cannot attend in person

 

Week 1 (Oct 24)

We’ll be joined by Leah Reesor-Keller, author of Tending Tomorrow: Courageous Change for People and Planet, on tending the embers of hope: conversations about climate anxiety, fighting despair and living in hope in a time of upheaval. 

Week 2 (Oct 31)

On the 31st we’ll engage with Leah Reesor-Keller and her colleague, Beth Lorimer, on church as movement: why congregations and people of faith have a unique role to play in the climate justice movement, and practical ideas for responding faithfully to a world in crisis. 

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Leah Reesor-Keller

Leah Reesor-Keller is a speaker, writer, and leadership consultant who helps churches and nonprofits set vision and strategy for transformational change. She currently serves as transitional executive director of KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives. During her tenure as executive minister of Mennonite Church Eastern Canada, she led a historic revisioning process for the largest conference in the Mennonite Church Canada denomination. She has nearly 20 years’ experience working with faith-based and social justice organizations in Canada, Haiti, Jamaica, and Nepal. Leah holds an MA in development studies and a BA in political science and peace and conflict studies. She lives with her spouse and children in Kitchener, Ontario, where she is rewilding her urban yard one dandelion at a time.

Beth Lorimer

Beth Lorimer is a social and ecological justice advocate with over 10 years experience in sustainable development. She has worked with academia, civil society and government, including Global Affairs and Status of Women Canada. Her work has focused primarily on freshwater management, climate justice, gender, and urban issues in Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Beth was a Youth Council member of PWRDF and supported the work of justgeneration.ca and the Canadian Lutheran Anglican Youth (CLAY) National Youth Project Working Group. She has worked in social justice, camping, and youth ministry at the parish and diocesan level for the Anglican Church of Canada in Ottawa, Kingston, and Toronto. When not at work, Beth enjoys spending time by water with her family, including swimming, paddling and sailing in Ontario’s many great lakes and rivers.

Week 3 & 4 (Nov 7 & 14)

Week 3: Recently A Rocha Canada and Tearfund Canada teamed up to survey young Canadian Christians about their views on biodiversity loss, climate change, and faith. We will discuss the findings and the implications for the credibility and potential of churches.

Week 4: The world is facing enormous ecological problems. In the final week we will explore a question for churches living in the midst of these challenges: How, and who, are we to be?

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Rick Faw

Rick Faw has been a lead educator at A Rocha Canada since 2004. In 2014 he became the Vice President of Programming, and in 2022 moved into the role of Education Director.

Rick combines academic backgrounds in science (BSc) and theology (MCS) with a love for the outdoors. His desire is for people to integrate their spiritual life with their experience of the created world. Rick, along with his wife Crista and children Jared and Zoë, lives and plays at Kingfisher Farm in Surrey, BC.

 

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