February Movement Café:
Divestment with Fossil Free UMC
February 19th 2024
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.
Divestment with Fossil Free UMC
Join us February 19th for the first Movement Cafe of 2025. The focus is fossil fuel divestment, and conversation will help connect the dots as to why divestment is an important tool to fight climate change. Rev. Sharon Delgado, who coordinates the Fossil Free UMC team will speak to the potentials and pitfalls of net zero. We will also discuss the theological imperative of taking action, as well as how to divest through Wespath. Julia Frisbie, Executive Director of the Northwest Faith Foundation will help walk us through the funds Wespath offers, and how to encourage your church and conference also to divest.
Speakers
Julia Frisbie
Julia Frisbie brings a wealth of experience in management, communications, and fundraising within the United Methodist Church. A Stanford graduate, she began her career at UMCOR. She led the Greater Northwest Area’s 1.2-million-dollar Imagine No Malaria campaign, and played a significant role at General Conference 2016. Frisbie has served at the Faith Foundation Northwest for the past five years, and as the Executive Director since 2023.
Jim Antal
Jim Antal serves as Special Advisor on Climate Justice to the General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ. Antal’s 2023 book, CLIMATE CHURCH, CLIMATE WORLD – Revised and Updated, is being read by hundreds of churches. From 2006-2018, Antal led the 350 UCC churches in Massachusetts as their Conference Minister and President. He has preached on climate change since 1988 in over 400 settings and has engaged in non-violent civil disobedience on numerous occasions.
Rev. Sharon Delgado
Rev. Sharon Delgado is an ordained United Methodist minister, speaker, and activist. She is author of Shaking the Gates of Hell, Love in a Time of Climate Change, and The Cross in the Midst of Creation. Currently, she is the convener of Fossil Free UMC, working in hope that the UMC will choose to divest from fossil fuels.
Jaydee Hanson
Jaydee Hanson is the policy director for Center for Food Safety and former staff executive for environmental justice, General Board of Church and Society. He serves on the board of Caretakers of God’s Creation and is a member of Mount Olivet United Methodist Church, in Arlington, Virginia. Hanson was on the original Climate team of the World Council of Churches and is a United Methodist EarthKeeper.