Weekly Word | January 21, 2022 | Issue 24

Also available: this coming Sunday morning, copies of the 2021 Annual Report will be in the narthex. You might want to pick one up to peruse the proposed budget and read through it to see if your name is mentioned!

The Caregiver Support Group meets monthly on the first Thursday at 11:00am in the nursery. Pr. Adam is offering a Zoom alternative, in case it is difficult to get to the church. Call the church office to receive a Zoom invite via email.

Pr. Adam’s Grief Group meets on the second and fourth Friday of the month in the Nursery at 1:00pm. This group is for those who have experienced loss. The next meeting is Friday, January 28 at 1:00pm.

We would love to hear about your adventures; share a picture and a story and we will put it in our Friday Newsletter! Email your submissions to Kimberly at ELCPVnews@gmail.com (or click on the email link, or simply reply to this email!) by Wednesday afternoon to be included in the Friday email.

The sunrise last Sunday morning at 7:21am from Pr. Tricia’s back deck! You can surely see where the colors of the Arizona State flag come from!

In the last three articles we have given you information and updates on the PROTECT Campaign. In this article, we will focus entirely on the PROTECT Campaign as it is extremely important for the Quad cities area.

As stated in our previous articles, this is an effort by a local grassroots group to secure public and political support for the implementation of a climate risk assessment or profile for our Quad Cities. It has the following mission and purpose:

• Mission: To protect the Prescott region from the devastating climate impacts now facing our communities.
• Purpose: To secure public and political support for the implementation of a climate impact risk assessment/study, similar to the 2020 Climate Profile, produced for Sedona and the Verde Valley.

How will a climate risk assessment help our Quad Cities region?  A climate risk assessment

• will identify and accurately describe how vulnerable an area is to which climate impacts.
• determines the scope of impacts to be addressed and the amount of risk for those identified impacts. 
• is the baseline data and the framework necessary to develop a climate action plan, so communities correctly identify what needs to be in place to build resiliency, mitigate impacts and adapt with appropriate local actions/solutions to the reality of climate impacts.
• is the tool to ensure that an effective plan is in place to protect the residents of an area from increasing hotter temperatures, wildfires, drought, flooding/after fire, loss of life and property, loss of forest and wildlife, and impacts on our local economies.

Click here to view the Climate Risk Assessment study completed by Sedona and the Verde Valley in 2019.

The PROTECT campaign is using speakers at the various city council meetings, letters to the editor in local newspapers and tabling to promote and disseminate information on the campaign. Tabling is a term for literally setting up a table at an event or a high-traffic location to engage people in discussion and pass out materials. We will be having a tabling event at our church Sunday morning, January 23, 2022.

Twelve Tiny Things Retreat

and More

at Spirit in the Desert in Carefree, Arizona

People Who Care is a nonprofit volunteer caregiving organization that provides non-medical assistance to adults who are no longer able to drive due to age-related and physical limitations, in order for them to continue living in their own homes, independent living apartments and in their own community.