1) Our Goal/Intended Impacts:
A. We will join Clallam County’s Earth Day event by sponsoring our own OUUF Earthday booth in Port Angeles. It will feature literature about mitigating climate change as well as information about Adaptation and Resilience and Climate Justice. We will share our Action Plans with those who visit our booth and invite others to join our effort.

B. The Green Sanctuary Team will take responsibility for the worship service on the Sunday closest to Earth Day and invite a member of our local S’Klallam tribe to deliver the sermon or if that does not come to fruition, members of the GS Team will deliver it. Our theme would be: what does it mean, what effort does it take on our part to restore and to call this earth our home. A possible sermon title might be: “Being Alive In A Dying World”  Focus would be on our responsibility to live our lives in such a way as to restore as much as we can of what has been lost ecologically, to affirm life even in the midst of a dying planet, to address climate justice issues and to live every day joyfully and purposefully knowing that to do otherwise is to abandon any hope of saving our home. 

2) Steps/How To Get There:

A. Work with the membership to develop an Earth Day booth that would involve set-up paraphernalia, literature, shift designations, take-down, etc. It would need a 4-6 person committee to accomplish our objective. Focus will be on justice issues.

B. Work with the GS and Worship Committees to develop a meaningful Earth Day service, one that acknowledges the serious challenge of climate change but at the same time emphasizes the opportunities for action and inspires a new commitment to take that action.  The need for addressing climate justice for those least responsible but most affected will be a focus.