PA IPL

Recently our SWPA Organizer and Outreach Coordinator, Ben Knab-DiNardo, organized a gathering with faith and environmental leaders alongside our Executive Director, K Ruth. Together we shared laments, hopes, and possibilities for environmental justice and equity work in relation to trees.

Our program Roots, Branches, and Hands, seeks to be responsive to the tree equity needs, nuances, and priorities of each specific SWPA community. We are excited to co-create tree equity programming with our neighbors and partners!

Sr Kari and Helga Stokes offered reflections as we opened and closed to provide spiritual grounding. Helga shared a Baha’i teaching that “We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it.” Sr Kari noted as we closed this space together that sometimes the conversation itself is the prayer.

Whether you are inspired by trees, by faith, or the act of sacred gathering, this network is a home for you! Learn more and get involved in Roots, Branches, & Hands through our webpage; https://paipl.us/roots-branches-hands/

We’re launching our tree order form and volunteer guide next Monday, June 8th. Come to our information session led by our tree program manager Dominique London on Friday June 5th at noon for more information about the process and for early access to the form. Register here; https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0MPukfOwQQCTei7JSQs3IA.

The deadline to request trees is July 15th. You can also join our office hours on Thursday June 11th from 6-7pm or Friday July 10th from 12-1pm to ask questions! Links to register are here; https://linktr.ee/paipl

Join us on Tuesday, June 2nd, from 7-8pm on zoom for a journey deep into the heart of our second Soul-scape of the year: Earth's Waters. Exploring this topic through music, prayer, meditation, and small group discussion, we invite you to awaken to the ancient Earth-consciousness that resides with us all, that we can access at any time. Register here; https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9R8ZyrJrRk206vUgLPturg

Sparrow was glad to join the Unitarian Universalist Society of Mill Creek last weekend for their meadow day as part of the Newark Arts Alliance Garden tour! They enjoyed seeing all the art and music, and of course all the pollinators and birds who were thriving in the meadow.

Would you like a member of our team to visit your congregation, speak at a worship service, or host a workshop? Reach out to us to start a conversation - we are currently scheduling Summer and Fall visits.