(she/her) is the pastor at Haller Lake United Methodist Church in Seattle, WA. She worked for many years in her first career as a high school chemistry and environmental science teacher in the public schools. Laura also serves on the board of Earth MInistry/ WA Interfaith Power and Light, the Steering Committee of the Aurora Reimagined Coalition, and is a founding member of the Emerald City Ringers. She is an advisory member of the Commission on Environmental Stewardship in the Pacific Northwest Conference. Rev. Baumgartner lives with her husband, Eric, and their dog, Calvin, in Seattle, WA, where she enjoys paddleboarding, baking, swimming, ringing handbells, reading, and planning their next adventure.

was part of the inaugural Global Ministries EarthKeepers cohort in 2016, and started the Creation Care Ministry Team in the Western North Carolina Conference. He has been part of the UM Creation Justice Movement leadership from its inception, with roles including coordinating and communications teams, as well as local church green team development, among others. For the past three years, Jonathan has served as the Environmental Sustainability Program Manager at UMC Global Ministries, overseeing the EarthKeepers program. On July 1, 2025, his new pastoral appointment will be with the Western North Carolina Conference as the Eco-Missions and Creation Care Coordinator, and also as the missions pastor at First UMC, Hickory, NC, where he and his wife live. You can reach Rev. Jonathan Brake at jbrake@wnccumc.net.

is an Global Ministries Earthkeeper. Her home conference is the Virginia Conference, where she serves as the United Women in Faith President and is a member of the Virginia Creation Justice team and co-chair of the Conference Legislative Network. She leads the Annual Conference Organizing team for the UM Creation Justice Movement.

is a commissioned UM EarthKeeper who is passionate about raising awareness in others so they will want to better care for God’s creation, and will have the tools to be able to do so! She is a lay member at Maple Springs UMC in Winston Salem, NC where she founded and continues to lead its Creation Care Ministry team, and she is presently the coordinator for a wonderful group of volunteers who comprise the Creation Care Ministry team for the Western North Carolina Conference of the UMC. Kim finds peace and joy when spending time in God’s creation, and greatly enjoys watching and advocating for the amazing birds with which God blessed this world. She also enjoys being active in the UM Creation Justice Movement in various capacities and sharing in the fellowship and the good work that is ongoing!

is a graduate of Garrett Seminary with a focus on Ecological Regeneration and Worship Arts. She is a Provisional Deacon in the UMC (California-Nevada), and serves as co-chair of the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement’s Worship Working Group, whose work has been published by Discipleship Ministries. Kristina sings and manages tours for the music collective The Many, which brings justice-oriented music to progressive Christians and spiritual communities around the world, and has been featured at Evolving Faith, Sojourners, Festival of Homiletics, and the Grammy Magazine. She also serves at GreenFaith, a global, multi-faith climate justice organization. Kristina resides in the Chicago area on the traditional, unceded homelands of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwa, Ottawa and Potawatomi—with her fiancée, Rev. Abby Holcombe, and beloved puppy Habibi.

is a retired United Methodist pastor in the Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference of The United Methodist Church with a long-time calling to the ministry of creation justice. In the last four years of his ministry with the Conference he served as Pastor for Creation Care & Environmental Justice and continues to serve on the Conference Creation Care Leadership Team. Paul is also on the Coordinating Committee for the national United Methodist Creation Justice Movement where he helps facilitate the Advocacy Working Group.

is a member of Vashon UMC and the Commission on Environmental Stewardship in the Pacific Northwest Conference. He is an EarthKeeper, and one happy part of the PNW EarthKeeper training in the fall of 2025 will be a field trip to Vashon UMC.

is an ordained elder and member of the VA Conference of the UMC. He was formerly a missionary working for the UMC General Board of Global Ministries as our first “Missionary for the Care of God’s Creation.” His mission position involved integrating care for God’s creation into the greater overall global ministry of the church. He understands the connections between poverty, disease, environment, and violence to be intimately related. Currently he is part of the leadership team for the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement. Pat tries to live out his passion for God’s creation by living his life in such a way as to make a smaller footprint on God’s earth. His passion is to raise the awareness, particularly among people of faith, that there is a connection between faith and a responsibility to care for and heal God’s creation. Pat is retired and currently lives in a small passive solar net zero home in Pittsboro NC.

is a lay person in the Minnesota Annual Conference and a leader in the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement convening the Coordinating and Communications teams. She was commissioned as one of the first Global Ministries Earthkeepers in 2016 and she served for seven years on the board of Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light. She runs Velasquez Family Coffee with her husband. Together they have 3 adult children, 1 grandson, a dog and 9 layer hens.

As a long time Creation care advocate, Dawn Lewis founded the Green Team at her church and has worked to support other green teams.  She is an ordained Earthkeeper and part of the Western Carolina Annual Conference.

works at the intersection of faith and climate change. She has served churches in Oregon and Washington, is a UM Earthkeeper, and volunteers with the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement. She is a member of the board of Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon where she chairs the Creation Justice Committee and Oregon Interfaith Power and Light. She is a member of the Pacific Northwest Conference. Find her at justcreation.org.