Georgia Interfaith Power & Light is looking for enthusiastic homeowners to provide native trees a HOME! We invite the local community to join us for a Tree Adoption Event at Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam, Dec. 6 from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. to receive one to two FREE trees, learn how to plant your tree, and visit with vendors. Adoptable trees include a variety of native three-gallon trees ready for planting. Each tree will come with a small planting and care kit.

This Tree Planting and Adoption program, in partnership with Trees Atlanta, focuses on increasing canopy coverage in underinvested census blocks, and we will have plenty of trees reserved for those neighborhoods.

However, in line with our mission to engage all Georgians in environmental stewardship, we’re also giving away up to 50 trees to attendees from outside those communities. We encourage you to sign-up to let us know you’re coming!

This morning coincides with a planting event on the property and at The Mohammed Schools of Atlanta with friends at Trees Atlanta and Food Well Alliance. You can volunteer with Trees Atlanta here and Food Well Alliance here.

If you have questions about this event and to sign up, please visit https://gipl.org/events/treeadoptionatlantamasjid or contact GIPL's ReWilding Program Coordinator, Heather Franklin, at heather@gipl.org.

When Dharma eye looks at modern existence, things open up. We’ll dive into that opening. 

We will begin with a guided meditation. Shodo Spring will offer both thoughts expressed in the new book, and a few short readings. We'll discuss what this has to do with our lives - how to actually meet the polycrisis - including personal practice in hard times. She will address the reality of human nature and how we can move forward with open hearts and minds.
We’ll conclude with a short ceremony dedicating energy to the well-being of all. In doing this, we act out the Mountains and Waters Alliance that is in Shodo’s heart.

For more information and registration please visit: https://redclaysangha.org/event-6385597.

This event takes place in person at Charis and on Crowdcast, Charis' virtual event platform. This event is free, but registration is required for virtual attendance. Please read the in-person event guidelines at the bottom of this page to be sure you can participate in the event.  Charis welcomes Shodo Spring in conversation with Charli Vogt & Gareth Young for a discussion of Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings.

Open Reality speaks to the world behind and beneath our daily collective trauma. It opens practical possibilities for creating a shared, flexible culture that knows the natural world both as family and as a working partner. It invites the reader to a world of possibility. What if industrial civilization isn't the best that humans can do? What if we weren't alone in the world, but embedded in a universe of conscious, intentional, powerful beings?

For more information and registration please visit: https://www.crowdcast.io/c/open-reality.

A landmark interfaith experience bringing together diverse faiths, cultures, and communities in a spirit of unity, nonviolence, and shared humanity. Through interfaith dialogue and multicultural exchange, we will explore how to build peace in our communities and beyond—together.

This is an all day event with dialogue and performances beginning at 2:00 p.m. It will be held at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 101 Jackson St NE, Atlanta, GA 30312. For more information please email interfaith@hwplgeorgia.org.

To register please visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepowk5keuxDAfBMg1uvedtyexnTawEX1C_pLhvyCk2AB6pWQ/viewform?usp=send_form.

You are invited to join fellow faith and civic leaders from across our city and state to learn more about First Five Freedoms, a new organization dedicated to providing a space where all Americans, no matter their faith or politics, can find common ground:

• Celebrating our First Amendment rights

• Protecting those rights when threatened

• Calling out political violence

Join us at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 101 Jackson St. NE Atlanta, GA 30312 on Friday, November 7th. Please RSVP to Andrew Lewis at andrewlewis.decatur@gmail.com.

When faiths come together, Beloved Community becomes possible.

Step into sacred space where prayers rise, voices unite, and children lead the way. The Interfaith Children’s Observance Service at Big Bethel AME Church is the heart of Children’s Sabbath Month, a time when faith communities across traditions gather to lift Georgia’s children in hope, healing, and commitment.

Expect soul-stirring prayers, prophetic preaching, and the powerful presence of our youngest advocates. This is not just worship, it’s a gathering of the Beloved Community.

Invite your faith communities, neighbors, family, and friends. Come be renewed, inspired, and recommitted to the vision of a Georgia where all children thrive.

To register please visit: https://www.mobilize.us/icmgeorgia/event/851138/?referring_vol=11415158&share_context=dashboard-event-details&sharer_role=2.

In preparation for the climate changes ahead, Atlanta faith leaders are invited to “Wisdom for the Storms,” a community conversation series remembering ancestral survival wisdoms.

Our first session will take place on Thursday, Oct. 23, from 7- 9 p.m. at the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance Outdoor Activity Center.

This opening conversation, “Healing Black Trauma with the Land,” led by Rev. Dr. Jamie Eaddy, is an altar call for those ready to mend and expand their relationship with all of Creation—a sacred relationship torn asunder by the evils of colonialism and chattel slavery.

Whether you are clergy or lay, already an environmental justice activist or still hesitant to touch grass, you are invited. You are welcome. You are called.

This conversation is in partnership with the Food and Land Institute of the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC). Space is limited. Register below today. Dinner will be provided.

Learn more at https://gipl.org/events/wisdomforthestorms/10232025#eaddy.

The annual Legislative Conference will be held on October 23, 2025, from 10 am to 4 pm at Oak Grove United Methodist Church. It will feature presentations from interfaith advocates and policy experts ahead of the 2026 legislative session. There will also be a county-by-county planning session on how to jumpstart the most critical work in our communities.

Learn more and register at https://georgiainterfaithcenter.org/event/gippc-legislative-conference-2025/.

Please join us for a celebration of light through poetry, stories, song and inspiring words as we come together in community. This beautiful event highlights the hope we each have as we close out 2024 and enter 2025 in connection with one another - come be a part and invite a friend!