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CRRA Virtual Annual Meeting
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2:00-2:05pm | Welcome & Housekeeping | Mark Shelton, Ed.D. Director of Library Services, College of the Holy Cross Chair, CRRA Board of Directors |
2:05-2:10pm | Introduction of Guest Speakers: Sr. Pat Bergen and rev. abby mohaupt | Jennifer Younger Executive Director, CRRA |
2:10-2:30pm | Presentation: Care of Creation | Sr. Pat Bergen Congregation of St. Joseph, LaGrange IL |
2:30-2:50pm | Presentation: GreenFaith Circles | rev. abby mohaupt Director off Education & Training, Greenfaith |
2:50-3:10pm | Q&A with Presenters | |
3:10-3:30pm | CRRA Volunteer Recognition | Mark Shelton, Ed.D. Director of Library Services, College of the Holy Cross Chair, CRRA Board of Directors |
Sr. Pat Bergen, Congregation of St. Joseph, LaGrange IL, was deeply involved in the Mirabeau Water Garden Project on land that was once home to the Sisters of St. Joseph’s motherhouse. The site is becoming one of the largest urban wetlands in the country and a demonstration site for urban water management in one of New Orlean’s lowest-lying and most vulnerable neighborhoods. The Sisters embraced this vision as one that “would manifest the holiness and the beauty of this land... and evoke a huge systemic shift in the way humans relate with water and land.”
rev. abby mohaupt directs education and training to support GreenFaith Circles, small groups passionate about faith-based action on climate change and the environment, and participation in a global, multi-faith community of circles. Individual circles may include people from one or more faiths or spiritualities, who together choose their paths toward transforming their spirituality and consumption habits, organizing religious institutions on “greening” opportunities, and supporting values-based actions by government and financial institutions to meet the climate crisis.