We are part of a network of church communities engaged in education, solidarity and reparative action alongside Indigenous Peoples.We are committed to learning more about local indigenous history and to lamenting the impacts on our region and beyond. We are committed to truth-telling as related to the indigenous people and land where we live. 

We are committed to putting restitution / repair funds in our church budget each year. We are committed to showing up for justice alongside Indigenous communities locally or internationally as we listen and learn from them. We are committed to engaging in Earth care in order to restore lands damaged in part by the history of the Doctrine of Discovery.

 Land Acknowledgement

Land acknowledgement is one way to resist erasure of Indigenous history as well as honor tribes and the land they stewarded for thousands of years.  We are living on traditional land of the Shoshone, Bannock and N.Paiute nations, who did not see land as a commodity but as a living partner that needed to be loved and cared for properly.  We offer gratitude for the tribes’ continued presence here despite colonization.  May we as white settlers learn and grow in our understanding of what it means to be responsible caretakers of the land and how we can make reparations to our neighbors.

“Is not this the fast that I choose

to loose the bonds of injustice,  to undo the thongs of the yoke,to let the oppressed go free and to break every yoke?

If you remove the yoke from among you…Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt;

you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live in.”

— Isaiah 58:6,9b,12