It’s different, it’s new, it’s exciting, it’s a big deal!
Schedule of events | Native plant sale | Your brain on drums
Our Earth Day planning team is working hard to bring our first annual Earth Day Event to Beavercreek UCC (aka 10 O’Clock Church). The first Earth Day took place 52 years ago, and unfortunately as earth citizens we haven’t been moving in the right direction to avert the climate change situation we now find ourselves in. As an Earthwise congregation, we feel the need to do our part to raise awareness and take ecologically sound action. Our Earth Day motto says it all: “Educate, Celebrate, Honor, Advocate”.
This will be a new kind of endeavor and outreach for BUCC. We are putting out the welcome mat for the entire area, not just our usual family and friends. We are partnering with Clackamas Soil & Water Conservation District, which is now located in Beavercreek at the corner of Beavercreek Rd and Ferguson Rd. (the former llama ranch location.) They are supporting us on their social media and bringing a trove of beautiful informational materials and handouts to set up in our meeting hall. We have also partnered with the Beavercreek Hamlet, who are posting on social media and their reader board for the event.
Friday night, 4/22 at 6:00 PM is movie night/discussion around sustainability and includes some special fun activities for the kids, which will continue on Saturday.
Friday’s movie: Youth v Gov
Saturday 4/23, starting at 9:00 AM will be the main event. Our guest speaker on Saturday morning is Greg Smith, professor emeritus of Lewis and Clark College where he was Professor of Education and taught “Envisioning a Sustainable Society”. He will be sharing his vision of “Resilient Communities” in a PowerPoint presentation followed by a Q&A session. We need to pose this question to ourselves: “How do we move forward as a community in balance with the earth?”.
We have a variety of different groups already committed to having a presence at the event and are working on others, which will be added to the list (check our Website and Facebook for updates and details):
Master Recycling
BUCC Net Zero solar project
BUCC Food Pantry
Native Plant Sale
Composting
Kids’ activities
Pollinators/Bees
Prayer flags
Besides our speaker, kids’ activities and information tables on Saturday, there will be a Land Blessing on the property and to close we will raise the prayer flags to the Peace Pole, hold a drumming circle and be guided in a shamanic journey to the Heart of the Earth.
In alignment with our Earthwise theme and actions, we recommend carpooling or if you’re up to it, ride a bike!
Schedule of events 🗓
Fri 4/22
6:00 PM
Movie night screening Youth v Gov followed by discussion
Kids activities available while adults watch movie
Sat 4/23
9:00 AM
Guest speaker, Greg Smith, Professor Emeritus of Lewis & Clark College speaking about “Resilient Communities” amid climate change. Followed by Q&A
Kids activities start and run all day. Play area, back deck.
10:00 AM
Refreshments served and displays open
Food Pantry
BUCC Solar project
Recycling
Composting
Equal Exchange (fair trade coffee, chocolate, etc)
Clackamas Soil & Water Conservation District
Bee keeping (Honey!)
Ask a Master Gardener clinic
Camp Adams
Prayer ties (Tie one on for Mother Earth)
EN-ROADS
11:30 AM
Land blessings (outside, dress accordingly, it’s Oregon)
Drumming circle
Shamanic journey to the Heart of the Earth
Hang prayer ties from Peace Pole
Native Plant Sale 🌿
We will have native plants available for purchase at the event on Sat. Do your part to help minimized your carbon footprint by planting natives. Here’s a sample of some of the things we’ll have available:
Vine Maple
Common Camas
Common Yarrow
Douglas Aster
Deer Fern
Black Hawthorn
Idaho Fescue
Red Osier Dogwood
Oceanspray
Riverbank lupine
Indian Plum
Western Sword Fern
Quaking Aspen
Choke cherry
Red Currant
Nootka Rose
Salmonberry
Blue Elderberry
YOUR BRAIN ON DRUMS 🪘
Drumming is a great workout for your brain and actually can make you smarter because when you drum you access your entire brain. Research shows that the physical transmission of rhythmic energy to the brain actually synchronizes the left and right hemispheres. So, when the logical left hemisphere and the intuitive right hemisphere of your brain begin to pulsate together, your inner guidance system – or intuition – becomes stronger.
Benefits of drumming
Makes you happy
Induces deep relaxation
Helps control chronic pain
Boosts your immune system
Creates a sense of connectedness
Aligns your body and mind with the natural world
Provides a way to access a higher power
Releases negative feelings
Plan to join the drumming circle at our Earth Day Event, Sat 4/23. The event starts at 9:00 and is scheduled to run until 11:30. At 11:30 there will be a Land Blessings, then the drumming circle will close the event followed by a Shamanic journey to the Heart of the Earth and lifting the prayer ties to the Peace Pole.
(Check the schedule of events for more information.)
Bring your drum(s) and let’s drum for Mother Earth!