Resilience Hubs – Offered by United Methodist Creation Justice Movement

Rev. Scott Parrish is a deacon in the North Georgia Conference. After many years in congregational ministry he’s served on Connectional Ministries staff since 2014 with focus on mission and disaster response. He’s a hobby farmer in his spare time & was in the first class of UMC Earthkeepers. Scott has lived in the Augusta GA area since 1994, so his work in coordination with UMCOR leading Conference Disaster Response has been close to home since Hurricane Helene plowed through the southeast. 

Shawn Anglim is a pastor at First Grace United Methodist Church and a founding member of Community Lighthouse, a project spearheaded by Together New Orleans, a solar-equipped, resilience hub network of faith communities and others is Louisiana. First Grace UMC was born out of a merger of an historical Black church and an historical white church in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. During his leadership the Church, other projects Shawn has led or developed are the First Grace Community Alliance, and its two missions Hagar’s House, a residence for women, trans women and children without a home, and Project Ishmael, a free legal clinic for immigrant children.

Cara Fleischer is the chair of the Creation Care Task Team of the Florida Conference and started and leads the Creation Care Ministry at her home church of Saint Paul’s UMC in Tallahassee. She is an Earthkeeper, an eco-communications consultant for ReThink Energy Florida, a nature writer, and an elected Soil & Water Conservation District Supervisor. She has recently developed a program engaging the bishop and conference staff to promote funding and resilience in her conference.