Please plan to attend for all or part of the event! Registration and more info available at www.umcreationcaresummit.org, or contact Diane Krueger (dkkrueger@comcast.net), Trudy Dunham (trudy.dunham@gmail.com), or Rev. Nancy Victorin-Vangerud (nvictorinvangerud01@hamline.edu).

The 2018 Creation Care Summit will reflect on the unique gifts and calling of The United Methodist Church at this critical time in the history of our planet, and explore ways to facilitate greater ministry effectiveness through collaboration between local congregations, annual conferences, general boards, agencies, and interest groups.

The Hamline Church bread oven team will hold a pizza bake in conjunction with the Summit on Thursday, July 26, from 5:30 – 7:00.  Please join us in showing Minnesota hospitality to the summit participants and our neighbors. Come for dinner or contact Kent Krueger (wkentkrueger1@gmail.com) or Diane Krueger (dkkrueger@comcast.net) to volunteer.

The Summit will conclude Sunday morning, July 29 with worship and a tour of sustainability initiatives at Hamline Church United Methodist. The Reverend Jenny Phillips will be preaching.  The bread oven team will bake donuts to be served to attendees of the summit and our own congregation, following worship.

Rev. Jenny Phillips is Creation Care Program Manager in the United Methodist Committee on Relief unit of Global Ministries. She leads EarthKeepers, a training program that equips United Methodists to engage in creation care projects, and she is developing a grant program to provide renewable energy in parts of the world where electricity is unreliable or unavailable. Jenny has a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of Washington. She lives in Decatur, GA.