Thank you for joining us for the Creation Care at the Crossroads 5.0 convening, an event jointly hosted by the Lausanne/WEA Creation Care Network and the Loka Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

This convening will be held in-person from September 17 - 20, 2024 at Holy Wisdom Monastery (pictured above) in Madison, Wisconsin.

The convening program is designed to provide a supportive and confidential setting for church pastors of American mid-size congregations in which we can share information, strategies, tools, and relationships to help you address the topics of creation care and climate change among your congregations.

In the convening, you will have access to:

  • Up to date theological and scientific knowledge about creation care and climate change.

  • Strategies and tools (communication, conflict management, policy) to help you in your role as pastor to navigate difficult but important topics.

  • New supportive relationships that will hopefully continue after the program ends.

The program will be a four-day event including travel (arrive by dinner on September 17, Day 1 (Tuesday), consultation on Days 2 & 3 (Wednesday/Thursday), leave after lunch on September 20, Day 4 (Friday). Stand by for further details regarding an array of expert speakers who will be presenting!

Our goals, as always, are to:

  • Help pastors and church leaders launch or improve creation care and climate programs that protect and benefit their congregations.

  • Create a network of skilled Christian creation care leaders who can work with creation care organizations, environmental and science organizations, and the media moving forward.

  • Recommend communication guidelines with nonprofits and policy groups to assist in communicating and partnering with Christian communities on creation care and climate issues. 

This website provides you with logistical information about the convening but is also intended to be a repository for our work, including recordings and integrative discussion reports, which will be available in the Resources page post-event. 

Blessings and best wishes,

Ed Brown (ed@careofcreation.org) and Dekila Chungyalpa (chungyalpa@wisc.edu) 

This program operates under Chatham House rules, which means that we record only invited speakers.

It is important to us that the convening is a trusted environment for us all and we ask that participants express their opinions respectfully and discuss what has been raised without revealing the identity or affiliation of other participants.