Great Turning Worship Service

Great Turning Worship Service @ First Church in Leominster with the Alliance for Wilderness Engagement (AWE)🗓️ Sunday, October 19th, 2025 @ 11:00 AM

📍 First Church in Leominster, 15 West Street, Leominster, MA

First Church in Leominster welcomes back Yaakov Trek Reef, wilderness spirituality guide and co-founder of the Alliance for Wilderness Engagement, for a special worship service and ritual rooted in The Great Turning.

Together, we’ll reflect on what we each love about the Earth and celebrate our parts in the Great Turning.

All are welcome. No prior experience or religious affiliation is needed.

Stay for Fellowship & Conversation after the service in the Fellowship Room.

About Yaakov Trek Reef

Trek walks in the world a student and teacher of wilderness spirituality. An avid backpacker, they hiked all 2189.1 miles of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail in 2016 in order to find a deeper connection to our more-than-human world.

He is the founder of and lead guide for the Alliance for Wilderness Engagement, a non-profit whose mission is to rekindle our relationship with our more-than-human world; a Master of Divinity student at Meadville Lombard Theological School; and is currently serving as Intern Minister at First Parish Church of Stow & Acton in Stow, Massachusetts.

Trek lives in Billerica, Massachusetts along with his partner, Justin.

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