Loving People and Planet in God's Name

LSM Advanced Course

Instructor:  Rev. Joel Harbarger

This course empowers lay participants to engage local churches in creation care and environmental justice. Lay participants will see this work as the appropriate response of disciples of Jesus Christ to the realities of climate change. Using the new revised second edition of Climate Justice: A Call to Hope and Action, this course helps communities grow deeper in their faith through the caring creation of practical and context-specific spiritual practices that mitigate the effects of reckless human consumption.

Dates/Times:

            Friday, October 31, 2025 – 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

            Saturday, November 1– 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

TWO options for taking the class: In-person and/or ZOOM

Location:

            Hocking River District Office

            47 Johnson Rd, The Plains, OH 45870

In-person

Cost:              $30.00

             ~OR~

Zoom

Cost:         $15.00

Contact:   Lesley Moore - lmoore@wocumc.org - (567) 221-7013 or Barb Conover - BConover@wocumc.org - (740) 677-0136

Students will need to purchase their own text:

Climate Justice: A Call to Hope and Action, Second Edition edited by Pat Watkins an be purchased through Cokesbury or Amazon or UpperRoom.org.

Please read the book before the class begins. Additional assignments will be made on Friday evening, October 31, 2025