SAC Announce
Bethany L
In this email, you'll find information about some exciting events sponsored, supported, or promoted First Parish in Concord's SAC.
The announcement contains information on (red bold indicates new news items):
- Concord Area Crop Walk for the Hungry on Sunday, October 19th
- Have Your Portrait Drawn and Support Children’s Island on Sunday, October 19th
- Interfaith Potluck on Monday, October 20th at 6:30 PM at First Parish
- Caring for Torture Survivors” Event Hosted by AI Group 15 on Saturday, October 25th at Boston University
- Concord Roots on October 24th
- Save the Date! Climate Solutions Speaker Series Presents Dr. John Carroll on Friday, Oct. 24 at 7:30 PM
Concord Area Crop Walk for the Hungry on Sunday, October 19th
The Concord Area Crop Walk for the Hungry will take place on Sunday, October 19,
starting at First Parish; registration begins at 1:30 PM,
step-off is at 2:15.
Funds raised go to support several local hunger relief organizations, and the
global disaster relief and development projects of Church World Service. Please
put this date on your calendar and plan to walk
or sponsor a walker. See <www.concordcrop.org> for more details, and look for the Crop table at coffee hours starting in
mid-September. You may register to walk,
or make a donation online. This is a great social action project for families
to participate in together!
Have Your Portrait Drawn and Support Children’s Island on Sunday, October 19th
On Sunday, October 19th, from 12:30 to 3:30, Margot Kimball, member of First Parish, will be drawing portraits at Reasons to be Cheerful (the ice cream shop) in West Concord. Proceeds from portraits will support Children's Island, a day care center in Argentina for indigent families. Each portrait takes from 10 to 15 minutes, for a minimum donation of $20. Contact Margot Kimball for more information, margot...@gmail.com.
Interfaith Potluck on Monday, October 20th at 6:30 PM at First Parish
All members of First Parish are invited to an interfaith potluck to discuss possibilities for environmental initiatives with other houses of worship in Concord. This potluck will be our fifth this year. At our last interfaith potluck Kate Crosby, First Parish member, gave an informative talk on how she helped the Acton school system adopt a comprehensive organic waste composting program. The gathered group is currently working together to create a cooperative composting program. Come if you’d like to help out, or have an idea for another partnership. Please RSVP to Laura Benedict (bre...@comcast.net), member of Environmental Leadership Team, if you plan on attending.
Caring for Torture Survivors” Event Hosted by AI Group 15 on Saturday, October 25th at Boston University
Members of Concord Area Group 15 of Amnesty International will be hosting a workshop at Amnesty’s Northeast Regional Conference on Saturday, October 25, at Boston University. The topic is “Amnesty’s Global Campaign Against Torture: Caring for Survivors,” an area of particular concern to local group members. Group 15’s regular meetings are the third Tuesday of each month, 7 to 8:30, in the Ripley Room. In addition to signing letters in support of human rights activists and prisoners of conscience worldwide each month, we also focus on several other issues including solitary confinement, the death penalty, and violence against women. We welcome all to join us -- our monthly meeting in October is on the 21st. If you’d like more information about Amnesty’s regional conference or Group 15, please contact Kathy Taylor, the group’s coordinator, at Kly.t...@gmail.com or 781-718-7640.
Concord Roots on October 24th
Concord Roots marks the official launch of the Concord Food Council on National Food Day, October 24 by encouraging use of locally sourced root vegetables this fall. These vegetables are available for purchase at local farm stands and grocery stores and served roasted for the occasion in local schools, other institutions, restaurants, and homes. Concord Roots highlights each part of our food system from food production to food waste recovery and shows how these parts are all connected and can be brought closer to home. Who knows what we’ll discover together? For more information and the Food System Report: “Building Local Connections”: www.concordfood.ning.com.
Save the Date! Climate Solutions Speaker Series Presents Dr. John Carroll on Friday, Oct. 24 at 7:30 PM
What will it take to ensure food sufficiency and farm sustainability In New England as climate change advances? On October 24, John Carroll, UNH Professor of Natural Resources, will speak about the rising movement towards small scale, sustainable agriculture in New England and how this movement can soften the blows inflicted upon us by the anticipated failure of our current national and international food system.
In his book, “The Real Dirt,” Carroll tells us that New England – romantically imagined as a gentle landscape of rolling farmland dotted with lazily grazing livestock – produces less of its own food than any other region in the nation. Because we rely heavily on food imported using fossil fuels, New Englanders are highly vulnerable to food insecurity. Adapting to climate change as well as reducing the carbon footprints that fuel it require of us that we reinvest in locally grown food. John Carroll provides a road map for achieving regional food security.
Carroll is always mindful of the spiritual and moral implications of how we produce food as well as the more scientific facts and figures. He has written ten great books. For more information about him and his books, click here. Save that date and stay tuned for more information.