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Ecumenical Advocacy Days 2009

Enough For All Creation: the Seventh Annual Ecumenical Advocacy Days

2009 conference information coming soon. Please visit Ecumenical Advocacy Days to find 2008 conference resources and follow-up ideas.

Save the date for next year:
March 13–16, 2009 • Washington, D.C.

We live in an increasingly interconnected world and have an enormous impact on each other and creation. As the earth’s temperature rises we see a strain on resources. Food, while plentiful for some, is desperately scarce for others. Lack of clean water makes children sick and burdens women. Global warming and growing resource deprivation forces some people to migrate and others to wage war over food, water and oil. Our increasingly co-dependent economies lift a few individuals up to great heights while keeping others living lives of destitution.

Join us at the seventh annual Ecumenical Advocacy Days, as we explore ways to bring about a world with Enough for All Creation. Learn about the connections between climate change, migration and poverty in the U.S. and around the world. Come together with faith-based advocates and activists from across the United States in the nation’s capitol March 13-16 as we discuss the abundance of our world and how it can be allocated in a way that is fair and just for all creation.

Join us at the Big Tent!

“…and the word became flesh.”

June 11-13, 2009 • Atlanta, Georgia

The Big Tent is a first-of-its-kind event, which has been characterized as “a denominational happening” and “a big Presbyterian family reunion.”

There will be common worship services and some common meals, a shared exhibit hall, some common workshop sessions and a Saturday evening celebration event in Centennial Park.

Ten PC(USA) ministries and groups will hold their conferences in conjunction with the Big Tent event, including the Healthy Ministry Conference, the PHEWA Social Justice Biennial Conference, the Racial Ethnic Convocation, the Presbyterian Communicators Network Conference, the New Immigrants Ministries Convocation, the Stewardship and Investment Conference, the Peacemaking Conference, the Evangelism and Church Growth Conference, the National Multicultural Church Conference and the National Elders Conference.

Events that the Washington Office has promoted in the past, and that are connected to the public witness of the PC(USA) are: the Peacemaking Conference, the PHEWA Social Justice Biennial Conference, the Racial Ethnic Convocation, the New Immigrant Ministries Convocation and the National Multicultural Church Conference.

Visit the Big Tent Web site for more details.