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Watercolors by:
Mark Manning
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Current Focus:
Education about global warming, climate change and how we might address these issues through our faith communities and individual actions.
Our Vision: We envision the earth, our home, as a place where all of creation flourishes.
Our Mission:
We are a coalition of individuals from Greater Kansas City faith communities.
We partner with, encourage, and assist faith groups to preach, teach, model, and advocate for sustainable living and ecological justice for all creation. We work in keeping with the tenets of each faith group.
The Sustainable Sanctuary Coalition encourages faith communities in the
Kansas City metropolitan area to "Care for Creation" through education
about and promotion of
sustainable actions.
We live in a time where there is denial of
the global
climate change that is fueled by humankind’s ever growing demands
upon our earth, a time of ignoring alternatives to the inefficient and wasteful ways we
have chosen to feed these demands. The Sustainable Sanctuary Coalition
does not accept as inevitable these wasteful ways continuing to cause ecological
disasters to happen all around us. We also believe that if we are to
change our collective behavior – and accept our destiny as stewards – we need
to accept an accurate and positive vision of everyone's reality.
This vision of reality celebrates all humankind as the stewards of this diversity of life on Earth and
supporters of the natural systems on which all life depends. We believe that to cherish what has been created is our
spiritual and moral responsibility – our ultimate responsibility
to all children and all grandchildren.
We believe what we can do here and now is to build a coalition of faith communities that
rapidly begin to reflect on what humankind is doing. We
will gather, share, and urge others to join us in the same spirit that embraces
change so stewardship and earthkeeping will soon become the sacred
responsibilities for all.
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