Ascension hosts global water justice conference – Thousand Oaks Acorn

Ascension Lutheran Church will be a partner site for Trinity Institutes 46th National Theological Conference on Water Justice from March 22 through 24 at the church, 1600 E. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks.

The conference will provide guidance for churches and individuals wishing to take unified, faith-based action on the front lines of the water justice movement that assures everyone has access to safe and clean drinking water, particularly the poor and marginalized.

At the conference, activists, scholars, authors and experts will offer guidance on this issue.

Conference participation is open to anyone interested in a practical, theological perspective on water justice and is ideal for seminarians, students and church leaders.

The live global conference will be held at Trinity Church in New York City and webcast across the world. As a partner site, Ascension will offer all aspects of the conference, including on-site reflection groups to help participants explore the issue and what they can do about it.

The speakers at this years conference are former California Sen. Barbara Boxer; Maude Barlow, a former United Nations senior adviser; Winston Halapuais, the archbishop and primate of the Diocese of Polynesia and Aotearoa New Zealand; Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist; Christiania Peppard, an expert on the ethics of fresh water and problems of climate change, social justice and sustainability; and Thabo Makgoba, the archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa.

For information about attending the conference at Ascension, email Stacy Smith at ssmith@alcto.org, call (805) 495-0406 or visit http://www.alcto.org.

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Ascension hosts global water justice conference - Thousand Oaks Acorn