Restoration & Discipleship (Rev. Laurel Dykstra)

Rev. Dykstra's Salal and Cedar church is by definition "a watershed discipleship community," part of a growing movement across North America of Christian communities re-connecting to the creation-values and land covenants at the core of the Christian tradition. 

Watershed Discipleship refers both to watersheds as natural geographic divisions and to the fact that we are at a watershed moment in terms of climate crisis.

Some examples - 

In Taos New Mexico the TiLT community is restoring hand-built adobe hacienda for co-housing. The Camden Center for Environmental Transformation, New Jersey teaches youth in the urban core gardening, orchard work, cooking, and food security. The font at St. Peter’s Episcopal church in Detroit has become a sign of their role as a distribution center for neighbours whose water has been cut off by the city managers’ harsh and punitive “emergency measures.” Theologians Sylvia Keesmaat and Brian Walsh teach sustainable agriculture at Russet House farm in Cameron, Ontario. On Holy Saturday, in southern Manitoba, a group of Mennonites held a liturgy of lament outside an Enbridge oil-pumping station.

Common to each is the question, “What does it mean to be a Christian, to follow the discipleship Way, in our particular part of creation, with these particular species, geography, and histories of human intervention?”

Learn more at SalalandCedar.com.