In 2017, Emmanuel participated in the Trees for Sacred Places sponsored by Interfaith Partnership of the Chesapeake and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay. This project was important to Emmanuel to care for God’s Creation by helping heal the planet through watershed restoration and creating community beauty. We held a tree planting instead of our regular second Sunday service supplying the volunteers and planted 60 trees on the hill behind the cemetery. View the photos from this event.
In our commitment to good stewardship, the Green Team participated in Interfaith Partnership of the Chesapeake‘s Faithful Green Leaders Training program and were trained in rain garden maintenance. Volunteers learned how to keep our rain garden projects functioning properly for local stormwater management and how to come up with a maintenance plan for scheduling and recruiting volunteers. See photos from our events here and here.