From September 29th through November 3rd our 4th-7th graders have agreed upon 10 goals for the People’s Ecochallenge. The international group based in Portland’s justice mission includes three main components:
- Inspiring people that hold power and influence to change their actions for a better world.
- Ensuring historically marginalized communities have access to resources and tools to enact change where they are.
- Helping connect diverse groups of people to work together to create the world we all want.
Here are our jr. youth group’s weekly challenges:
Every Sunday during church school: (1) Commit to writing down at least 1 thing they are
grateful for during church school and clip to the peace tree; (2) practice gratitude for the Earth and our natural surroundings with prayer, activity, or meditation; (3) engage in a nature-based activity with observation, journaling, or art; (4) collect all the plastic the church goes through during the time period and put it on display to the congregation, then recycle as much as possible, what isn’t recyclable make into an art piece.
Sept. 29th: (5) This day we made sure people were registered to vote; (6) and went on a plalk and picked up litter around the church and on West Union (see photos).
Oct. 13th: (7) Watch a documentary about racial injustice and discuss.
Oct. 20th: (8) Bring an item from home to offer for free to a sharing economy-based local free trade
group.
Oct. 27th: (9) Listen to a nature podcast as we create our nature- based saint shields.
Nov. 3rd: (10) Prepare and serve our Ingathering feast using organic ingredients.
~Page Clothier and Tom Martin
