Jubilee 2000: "A Call to Justice" is the name we have chosen
to define the work of the Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation
committee of the Diocese. A core group including Paige Buchholz, Ed
Cahill, Patricia Cahill, and Carolyn Dicer met in September to take
an overview of our task. We then met with Bishop vonRosenberg to share
our vision for the work of this committee. Together with the Bishop
we decided to focus on three main areas of concern: anti-racism training:
environmental stewardship; the living wage campaign. We later added
the discussion of issues regarding human sexuality as a fourth area
of focus.
At present we are creating task forces to coordinate specific actions
in each of these areas of concern.
The Anti-Racism Task Force designed a training program for the leadership
of the Diocese according to the resolution from General Convention.
We offered this workshop to the Diocesan Staff in November and plan
to revise the event for Bishop and Council in May 2001. Other plans
include providing resources for liturgical use for the Martin Luther
King Holiday and Earth Day.
In Spring of 2000 we helped sponsor the Earth Day Event in Chattanooga.
We also were represented at the National Forestry Conference on Religion
and Conservation this fall.
Respectfully submitted by the Rev. Paige Buchholz, Co-Chair