Ekklesia SF Regional Gathering

The escalating signs of climate collapse can provoke a range of responses in us. Denial. Numbness. Dread. Anxiety. Anger. But what if we could begin to reckon with the collapse of the world we have known in the company of God’s people? What if we could find gospel partnership and learn steps of hopeful repentance, love, and action?

The first ever Ekklesia SF Regional Gathering will engage with the reality of climate collapse through the lens of grief and congregational practices grounded in hope.

This regional gathering will engage content presented at the 2024 Ekklesia Gathering in Monrovia, CA on the theme of Bearing Witness to Grief: Climate Collapse, Resistance, and Grounded Hope. Ched Myers and Elaine Enns’ prophetic plenary paper “Climate Grief and Remorse: Quandaries and Queries” will provide the launch point for reflection and circle conversations. Stories and experiments in hopeful action from the sponsoring congregations will help lead us toward "deprivatizing anxiety" and "collectivizing repentance and imagination" (Ched Myers). True to the aims of the Ekklesia Project, this regional gathering will be a space to discover friendship that sustains faithful discipleship and the life of local congregations.

Co-sponsored by the Ekklesia Project, Grace Fellowship Community Church, Redeemer Community Church, and Church of the Sojourners

Saturday, November 2, 2024

GRACE FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY CHURCH

3265 16th Street ▪ San Francisco, CA 94103

9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Cost: $25

Pre-gathering Reading and reflecting on Ched and Elaine’s paper

Morning Welcome, Opening Worship, Panel Discussion, Circle Conversations

Lunch

Afternoon Breakout sessions

Details coming soon

The Ekklesia Project is a community of Christians who have found life-giving friendship through a shared hope in the vision of God’s good shalom. From across the ecclesial spectrum we gather virtually and in person, supporting each other and our communities in the beautiful, vexing, imperfect work of bearing witness to the non-violent way of the Cross. Together as members of Christ’s borderless body, and committed to our own conversion and to unlearning habits of domination, we find courage to profess our unwillingness to be at home in structures and systems rooted in the economics of scarcity and the politics of fear.

Host or Publisher The Ekklesia Project