[Green] Minutes from September Green Sanctuary Committee meeting

[Dawn Hewitt]

Friends,

Forgive my feeble brain. Attached are the minutes from the September 19 Green Sanctuary Committee. We will vote on them first thing Sunday, so please have a look. They reminded me of a few things we said we’d discuss at Sunday’s meeting:  The mission statement of the GSC.

Please read and be prepared to discuss this: 

http://fuusm.org/index.php?page=green-sanctuary

Copying and pasting from there, is this our mission statement?


The Charter
Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth invites congregations to:

	• Build awareness of environmental issues
	• Encourage personal lifestyle changes
	• Motivate community action on environmental issues
	• Build a connection between spiritual practice and environmental consciousness
	• And challenge and work to heal environmental injustices.1
In pursuit of these goals, this Committee will strive to accomplish these tasks:

	• Serve as leader in accomplishing those tasks required to receive certification as a Green Sanctuary;
	• Serve as a source of information on relevant topics for the congregation and the community.
	• Serve as a source of motivation for members of the congregation seeking to include ecologically respectful practices intheir personal lives;
	• Encourage members of this Committee and of the congregation to assume leadership roles in the larger community in which we live;
	• And emphasize these roles as ethical, spiritual and necessary to our individual and collective survival
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The UUA mission statement for the Green Sanctuary Committee—and an action plan for it— is on this page: https://www.uua.org/environment/sanctuary  . Copying and pasting: 

Our Mission

The Green Sanctuary Program provides structure, leadership and support, in broad collaboration, for the UU faith community to engage in an ambitious Environmental Justice and Climate Justice movement that seeks to live fully our seventh principle and achieve our vision of a viable and just world for all.

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Is that FUUSM GSC’s mission?  Let’s discuss!

Now, here are the minutes from the September meeting. Please read. I did edit (slightly) what Adeline sent me promptly.  Sorry to make you do homework over the weekend.  

Hope to see you Sunday!  —dawn
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