Calls to Action
There are a number of ways we are asking you and your faith community to be part of our efforts:
1) Join us as a member congregation or as an individual
We are a group of faith communities joined around the common causes of climate justice and social justice in our Waterloo Region community. We hope that member congregations will:
We are also welcoming individuals who are interested in helping in any way you can. Individuals may be part of a member congregation, or they may not. Our group is always open to new members and we welcome new people with creative ideas and skills to share! By joining our group, individuals can both find a useful outlet for their own skills and enthusiasm, and help increase our campaign capacity.
We would love an opportunity to discuss this initiative further with you, and explore how your congregation can be involved. If interested, one or several members of our group would be happy to make a short presentation to your church leadership team about the vision that we are creating and how you can help us to move it forward. Please use the contact form below to get in touch.
2) Hang a banner on your church and/or place of faith
Our group has been working with a professional design team to create a banner in support of climate justice, that we are now inviting faith communities to hang on their building as a very visible public show of support. Our aim is to have 50 of these banners hanging on churches and other places of faith in the region before the end of 2020, and your church can be one! These beautiful banners will amplify the call for climate justice and help start community-wide conversations. Please see the banner page for more details, as well as a contact form for ordering a banner.
3) Support our delegations to local governments
Over the coming months, we will be engaging with the local governments of Waterloo Region (townships, cities and region) to share our vision and urge them to take specific actions. You can support that effort by helping us draft a letter to local governments (see our current draft here), and when we are ready, signing our letter to those governments and encouraging your congregation to attend the meetings where we present to government councils. You can also be part of our formal delegation.
4) Connect with other congregations
We know that we can accomplish more together than we can alone. One of our goals is to bring local faith communities together, so that we can share ideas and resources, collaborate on events, and have more political power than we would alone. If you or your congregation have ideas about things we could be doing, stories about things your congregation has already done, political actions we should consider (for example a letter-writing campaign around a specific issue), please get in touch using the form below! This is not a top-down organization; it is a bottom-up one, where you the members decide what we should do.
1) Join us as a member congregation or as an individual
We are a group of faith communities joined around the common causes of climate justice and social justice in our Waterloo Region community. We hope that member congregations will:
- Hang a banner on our near their building to show support;
- Give permission to be listed here on our website;
- Collaborate with us in preparing our letters and delegations to local government;
- Stand with us when we are ready to send these letters and delegations;
- Support and participate in future online and in-person events (in-person events are currently on hold due to the pandemic);
We are also welcoming individuals who are interested in helping in any way you can. Individuals may be part of a member congregation, or they may not. Our group is always open to new members and we welcome new people with creative ideas and skills to share! By joining our group, individuals can both find a useful outlet for their own skills and enthusiasm, and help increase our campaign capacity.
We would love an opportunity to discuss this initiative further with you, and explore how your congregation can be involved. If interested, one or several members of our group would be happy to make a short presentation to your church leadership team about the vision that we are creating and how you can help us to move it forward. Please use the contact form below to get in touch.
2) Hang a banner on your church and/or place of faith
Our group has been working with a professional design team to create a banner in support of climate justice, that we are now inviting faith communities to hang on their building as a very visible public show of support. Our aim is to have 50 of these banners hanging on churches and other places of faith in the region before the end of 2020, and your church can be one! These beautiful banners will amplify the call for climate justice and help start community-wide conversations. Please see the banner page for more details, as well as a contact form for ordering a banner.
3) Support our delegations to local governments
Over the coming months, we will be engaging with the local governments of Waterloo Region (townships, cities and region) to share our vision and urge them to take specific actions. You can support that effort by helping us draft a letter to local governments (see our current draft here), and when we are ready, signing our letter to those governments and encouraging your congregation to attend the meetings where we present to government councils. You can also be part of our formal delegation.
4) Connect with other congregations
We know that we can accomplish more together than we can alone. One of our goals is to bring local faith communities together, so that we can share ideas and resources, collaborate on events, and have more political power than we would alone. If you or your congregation have ideas about things we could be doing, stories about things your congregation has already done, political actions we should consider (for example a letter-writing campaign around a specific issue), please get in touch using the form below! This is not a top-down organization; it is a bottom-up one, where you the members decide what we should do.
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