The Rev. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows and the Rev. Gail Riina were discussing their ideas for different types of living communities, both religious and environmentally friendly, when they realized the two could go hand in hand.
The Syracuse Daily Orange carries the story.
This fall, the house will be home to four SU students, who will focus on living eco-friendly lives, while sharing their faith with housemates…
While in the house, residents will engage in several environmental and religious activities, including growing and harvesting their own individual plots of land, buying produce from local farmers markets, participating in group prayer sessions and committing to community service projects, Baskerville-Burrows said.
“It’s not easy to make commitments to sustainability,” Riina said, “So we need a community.”
The four-bedroom house, owned by Grace Episcopal Church for more than 50 years, was vacated after Baskerville-Burrows, the Episcopal chaplain at SU and Grace Episcopal Church, moved to another part of Syracuse. The church was seeking another ministry-oriented purpose for the house when Baskerville-Burrows and Riina held their lunch meeting.
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