Sustainable Pathways

“Tending the Common Ground through Resource Stewardship, Creation Care, and Diversity”

September 9-12, 2018

Hampton, Georgia

It’s not too late! Greetings colleagues, there’s still time to take part in this most important training and discussion on Resource Stewardship, Creation Care, and Diversity. Please join us in Hampton, Georgia, at the Calvin Center (just 28 miles from the Atlanta airport!) We will dig deep to:

• Identify the best strategies for achieving better resource efficiency in our camps and buildings. We will also examine our facilities as holistic systems, look at how this can inform how we approach future improvements, and consider how this tangibly demonstrates our faith and stewardship for Creation.

• Explore a different dimension of diversity and inclusion with creativity, humor, insight, and a fresh perspective. With the goal of learning ways to create camp and retreat environments that are more inclusive and welcoming, we will look at how stereotypes and assumptions contribute to intentional and unintentional bias, misunderstandings, and discrimination.
  

Leading the charge on these topics will be Niambi Jaha-Echols, a Cultural Agility Strategist from Charlotte, North Carolina; Shane Totten, an architect working at the Southface Energy Institute; and Rev. Kate McGregor Mosely, Executive Director at Georgia Interfaith Power & Light. UMCRM's own Kevin Witt and Arthur Spriggs will close out the event by sharing successful programs and strategies that others are currently using around the country to expand ethnic community and leadership in camping, helping you develop a plan to take back to your center.

Don’t miss this great lineup. Take a clean break from summer, and take advantage of some great cheap airfares to Atlanta. Hope to see you soon!

Here's the brochure with all the details. 

Here's the link to register. 

Blessings,

Arthur

Arthur Spriggs is the Executive Director for South Carolina Conference Camps & Retreats. He's an At-Large member of the UMCRM Association Board of Directors, and in that role he also serves on the coordinating committee for the Sustainable Pathways partnership.