Loving People and Planet in God’s Name - Advanced Course

This course empowers lay participants to engage local churches in creation care and environmental justice. Lay participants will see this work as the appropriate response of disciples of Jesus Christ to the realities of climate change. Using the new, revised second edition of Climate Justice: A Call to Hope and Action, this course helps communities grow deeper in their faith through the caring creation of practical and context-specific spiritual practices that mitigate the effects of reckless human consumption. 

Meeting: Class will be held in person at Goshen United Methodist Church 
19615 Goshen Road, Gaithersburg Rd, Gaithersburg, Maryland  
 Participants must attend all sessions of the class.  

Dates and Time: Saturday, August 29, 8:30-4:30 pm, Sunday, August 30, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm

 
Instructor: Rev. Carmen Collette

 
Required Text: Climate Justice: A Call to Hope and Action, Second Edition, Edited by Pat Watkins, Participant’s Book •  978-1-952501-23-4.  Text can be purchased from Amazon, Cokesbury, Upper Room, and other vendors.

Class Assignments: Please read the book prior to class. To pass the class, participants must attend each session and complete all required assignments in the requested timeframe.

Online Registration Only: $40

Registration Deadline: August 26, 2026 

Questions may be directed to Kim Walker at kwalker@bwcumc.org

(The Conference reserves the right to cancel a class due to low enrollment or other circumstances. The Conference will give as much notice of cancelation as possible, students will receive a refund.

All other Refunds must be requested before the first scheduled class date.)