Friday and Saturday, February 11-12, 2005

 

Westminster Woods

Camp and Conference Center, Occidental, CA

 

Come join us for an intergenerational, ecumenical retreat in the Redwoods: worship, workshops, music, storytelling, children’s program and good, healthy food!

 

       Choices of Food and Faith

·   How do we eat as if we were in communion all the time with God and God's creation?

·   How might we live so as to honor health, justice, and joy in the entire world?

·   What practices of feasting and fasting are appropriate during this Lenten season to help us live more deeply and intentionally with our God?

 

This retreat will celebrate patterns of food consumption, production, and distribution that are healthy and just-- for earth, animals, human workers, and consumers' bodies. It will explore the global realities of hunger and poverty and how these phenomena intersect with our daily food choices. We will discover ways to live and eat responsibly and joyfully, participating in God's good abundance.

 

Leadership includes

Rev. John Pitney – Assistant Minister, First United Methodist Church, Eugene, Oregon, Recording Artist

Dr. Carol Robb - Margaret Dollar Professor of Christian Social Ethics, San Francisco Theological Seminary

 

Plus great workshop leaders and children’s leaders for insightful and inspirational time together.

 

Workshops

·      Morning Sessions:

1.·  “From Ground to Table: Theology, Ethics, and the Bible on Table Fellowship” - Craig Scott and Whitney Bauman

2.· “Genetically-Modified Foods” –

3.  “Hunger and Poverty” –

4.    “Local Agricultural Policy” - Renata Bollinger

 

·      Afternoon Sessions:

5.    Pesticides and Health – Margaret Reeves

6  Slow Food Movement: A Theological Reflection - Roger Hull

7.  The Food We Eat – Rebecca Barnes Davies

8.    Church-Farm Connections (Intergenerational) – John Pitney

 

 

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Registration: Three options to choose from.

1. Friday dinner through Saturday afternoon

$60.00 adults includes 3 meals and overnight cabin accommodation

$30.00 children 5-12

Free – children under 5

 

2. Saturday only commuters

$30.00 includes lunch and full program $10.00 for children 5-12

Free – children under 5

 

3. Stay and make it a weekend!

    $113.00 registration for meals and accommodations for Friday evening to Sunday morning.  A Sunday morning service will be offered.

 

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Downloadable Registration form, Word Format

Downloadable Registration form, pdf Format
Downloadable Flyer

 

Scholarships are available.  Please call for group rates.

(Please use additional paper if necessary to include full contact

information for each registering participant in your family or group.)

 

Westminster Woods, 66510 Bohemian Highway, Occidental, CA 95465-9106,

To register by phone, please call (707) 874-2426.

For more information, call Rev. Renee Rico at 415-453-8221.

 

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Caring For Creation Conference Schedule

 

Friday night, February 11th

           5:00 pm               Registration

           6:30 – 7:30          Soup and salad bar

  7:30 –  9:00         Campfire program, storytelling,

song-fest.

  9:15 pm               After hours showing of a movie

 

Saturday morning, February 12th

  8:30 – 9:30 am    Breakfast

  9:00 – 9:30          Registration

  9:30                     Welcome

  9:35                     Morning plenary – Carol and John

         10:30                     Break

         10:45                     Workshops

          Noon                     Lunch

           1:00 pm               Free time

                                           salmon restoration/watershed tour

                                           hikes up the hill

                                           labyrinth walk

                                           nap time

  2:00 – 3:15          Workshops

           3:30 – 4:15          Regional meetings

           4:30 – 5:00          Closing liturgy with Communion

          5:15                    Conference ends

 

Children’s Program

 

·      Breakfast time:        8:30-9:30   With parents

·      Registration time:    9:00-9:30   Childcare

·      Welcome time:        9:30 am     Childcare

·      Plenary time:           9:35 am     Childcare

·      Break time      :        10:30         Childcare

·      Workshop time:       10:45         Story with Jane Ross Richer

(and childcare)

·      Lunch time:             noon          With parents

·      Freetime:                1:00-2:00   Childcare

·      Workshop time:       2:00-3:15   Intergenerational workshop

(and childcare)

·      Regional Meetings: 3:30-4:15   Singing with John Pitney

(and childcare)

·      Closing Liturgy:       4:30-5:00   With parents

 

 

Sponsored by Presbyterians for Restoring Creation and TREES at the Graduate Theological Union.

Check out the PRC website at www.prcweb.org