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promoting hope, strength and Sabbath for our faith journeys in Wyoming.
August 13-15 at Ring Lake will be a WAC Retreat. This year it will be opened up to others in addition to new pastors, but with preference still being given to those new to Wyoming or new to the ministry. Rev. Warren Murphy and Rev. Rebekah Simon-Peters will be retreat leaders. To get on the list for registration information, send an email to wychurches@wyoming.com.
On Sunday, April 22 is Earth Day. Plan a worship honoring God’s Creation.
A new book offers a unique perspective of Wyoming’s history. WordsWorth Publishing announces the release of On Sacred Ground: A Religious and Spiritual History of Wyoming by Warren Murphy. Murphy’s meticulously researched work examines a part of Wyoming’s history that has until now received little attention, linking the Equality State’s colorful past with the history of Wyoming’s diverse faith community.
Spiritual Wholeness was the theme of the annual retreat at the Thomas the Apostle Center in Cody in September. Participants toured the new Interpretive Center for the Heart Mountain Japanese American Internment Camp during World War II and contemplated how the people forced to live there in crowded and restrictive conditions were able to find joy and spiritual wholeness in such an environment.
fostering respect for Wyoming's resources as holy gifts from the Creator.
The Red Desert has natural monuments like Adobe Town and Boar's Tusk, the largest moving sand dune in North America, the only desert elk in the world, and bright-colored spring flowers. The Wyoming Association of Churches seeks protections for this area vulnerable to over-development in an energy-hungry world.
Local affinity groups working on community-based projects to protect the environment were seeded by the Wyoming Association of Churches at its 2007 annual meeting in Lander. Groups still thrive in several communities in Wyoming.
seeking to improve the lives of Wyoming's poor and less privileged.
A state study recommends renovation of an existing building at the Wyoming women’s prison in Lusk for a Mother/Child (nursery) facility. WAC supports this project for funding by the Wyoming Legislature during the 2012 Budget Session. To view the study,
Click on Reports above or click here
DVD’s with Study Guide are available from WAC’s Civility Matter’s Dialogues town meetings held on October 8. The topics discussed were:
- Judicial Responses for Youth Offenders in Wyoming
- Providing Health Care for Wyoming’s Poor
- Definition of Marriage and Civil Unions as Relates to Couples’ Sexual Orientation
During the 2011 Wyoming legislative session, a clone bill to Arizona's immigration law was introduced, but was stopped with the help of the Wyoming Association of Churches. On Saturday before the legislature convened, 50 people gathered in Cheyenne for a workshop on A Faith Response to
Immigration.
DATES TO REMEMBER
April 21, Board Meeting, Casper
April 22, Earth Day – Make Creation Care a part of your worship this day.
June 22, Board Meeting, Riverton
July 31, Walking with Your Neighbor Workshop, Worland
August 13-15, Retreat, Ring Lake
September 20-22, Annual Meeting, Rock Springs
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