A little over a week ago, we congratulated Villa Guadalupe and Little Sisters of the Poor in Gallup for earning a runner-up award in National Interfaith Power & Light’s annual Cool Congregations Challenge contest. The local newspaper Gallup Independent also reported the award . Here is a screenshot of the brief article that was posted in the Gallup, NM, newspaper
Congratulations to Villa Guadalupe and Little Sisters of the Poor in Gallup for earning a runner-up award in National Interfaith Power & Light’s annual Cool Congregations Challenge contest. Villa Guadalupe, which partnered with nearby Spirit Farm, received a $500 prize from IPL. Here is what national IPL said:
Villa Guadalupe won a Sacred Grounds award for their innovative plan to collect 20,000 gallons of rainwater on their roofs to irrigate their own vegetable garden and the nearby Navajo reservation farmers. Their project partner is Spirit Farm, an indigenous-informed educational project of Covenant Pathways and James and Joyce Skeet.
Here is a list of all the runner up and honorbable mention awards this year
Here are first-place awards
Among the congregations in New Mexico that have won a first-place or runner-up award in one of the national IPL Cool Congregations in past years are Lybrook Community Ministries in Cuba, Congregation Albert in Albuquerque, United Church of Santa Fe, Bethany Christian Reform Church in Gallup, Camino de Vida Iglesia Cristiana in Albuquerque, St. John’s United Methodist Church in Albuquerque,
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“We will once again walk off the reservation freeing ourselves from the bondage of federal policies and the inaccuracies of the history of this country. We will no longer be invisible, for God the Creator, who is known throughout the world, has spoken, once again, through all his creations, that healing must begin to save what is left, so that those yet to be born will embrace the true spirit of life.” – Wendsler Nosie Sr.
