April 2026 Movement Café
Marine Ministry: Oceans and Discipleship
Marine Ecotheology
April 15, 2026
9am AK / 10am PT / 11am MT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET
Sponsored by the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement, the informal, virtual space of the Café facilitates conversation, connection, and community focused on creation care and justice issues.
Marine Ministry:
Oceans and Discipleship
Marine Ecotheology
The April Cafe will celebrate Marine Ministry: Oceans and Discipleship featuring Rev. Logan Jackson with Marine Ecotheology, Rev. Dottie Yunger director of the Maine State Aquarium and ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, and Greg Clensy Director at Ocean Park Camp and Retreat Center.
Water stewardship washes over and refreshes us for the April Movement Cafe. As God parted the waters at the beginning, so God raised up oceans teeming with life, as well as rains and rivers to feed them. At April’s Cafe we talk with United Methodist pastors who serve where the waters divide, between dry land and the seas. Join us for a conversation about oceans, ocean stewardship, and the ways we can share and teach a faithful marine ecotheology for the church. We will hear from Rev. Logan Jackson serving in Ocracoke and now at Newbegun UMC in North Carolina, Rev. Dottie Yunger, a marine biologist and pastor, who serves as director of the Maine State Aquarium, and Greg Clensy Director at the United Methodist Camp and Retreat Center Ocean Park Camp in Ocean Park Washington.
Speakers
Logan Jackson
Logan Jackson is a pastor in the North Carolina conference of the United Methodist church and the creator of the Marine Ecotheology Program. He is married with two children. He loves spending time outdoors and learning about wildlife and also enjoys reading and watching his favorite sports teams in his spare time.
Reverend Dottie Yunger
Reverend Dottie Yunger is the director of the Maine State Aquarium and ordained elder in the United Methodist Church. She has her undergraduate degree in marine biology from the University of Maryland, and a Masters of Divinity and Masters of Theological Studies from Wesley Theological Seminary. Her thesis was on environmental justice themes in the Hebrew Bible, and the real time issues she encountered as the Anacostia Riverkeeper. Dottie has also worked for the Smithsonian Institution and Discovery Channel as a marine biologist and educator. As an Earthkeeper in the United Methodist Church, Pastor Dottie combines her call to ministry and her call to creation care.
Greg Clensy
Greg Clensy has been working in camping for nearly 30 years. He grew up in Montana, but fell in love with the Pacific Northwest since living here in his twenties. It is home. It is a great place to read books and play board games when it’s rainy and an even better place to explore the wilderness when it’s not. Greg is a lover of all things furry, crawly, swimming or flying.
He believes that camps and retreat centers like Ocean Park exist to create community, facilitate discovery and to be examples of a better world by maintaining peaceful, beautiful, healthy spaces and by being welcoming, safe and affirming for every person.