Social Responsibility
Our congregation's first community service project is
helping to restore the prairies, wetlands, and woods of the Nygren Wetlands
Preserve, located in the Rockton, IL area. With impetus provided from a number of
our church members' prior involvement with the Natural Land Institute, we have been
assisting the NLI to restore this 720-acre farmstead at the convergence of the
Pecatonica and Rock Rivers.
This project of ecological restoration is consistent with our commitment to
honor the interdependent web of life ... as well as serving our mission to
promote responsible use of the earth's resources. Besides learning how to restore
our land, we have great fun together joking, singing to the plants, and building
community.
We are also working to become a "Green Sanctuary". To learn more of what this
means, click on the following link:
Green Sanctuary
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