VALENTINE-MAKING PARTY
On Sunday, UP Wild held a Valentine-making Party at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Marquette. The Valentines were delivered to Room at the Inn on Monday to let the people there know that they are loved and welcome in our community.
FEEDING AMERICA AT SAWYER VILLAGE
CONNECTING AS A COMMUNITY TO FIGHT HUNGER On Wednesday, February 9, Upper Peninsula Health Care Solutions, along with the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan, UP Wild Church, Embers Credit Union, the ELCA churches of Marquette County, and Sawyer Village hosted a Feeding America West Michigan Mobile Food Pantry at Sawyer. Building upon the success of […]
NATURE PRAYERS BY THE BONFIRE
2021 JAMES ARTHUR KELSEY PEACE AND JUSTICE AWARDS
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PEACE CENTER
Recordings of Past Conversations:December 2021November 2021
Caregivers Corner
There are so many of us who are Caregivers – taking care of a loved one with a chronic condition. It doesn’t matter if our loved one is at home or in a residential facility, it doesn’t even matter if we live near them or 1000 miles away and are offering support…..all of it counts for caregiving. CAREGIVERS REQUIRE SUPPORT!!!! So, please, if […]
PEACE POLE AND LABYRINTH DEDICATION
A WALK OF HEALING
DOZENS GATHER IN WATERSMEET FOR A DAY OF HEALING THE LAC VIEUX DESERT BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA INDIANS AND THE NATIVE JUSTICE COALITION HELD A WALK OF REMEMBRANCE AND HEARD TESTIMONY FROM SURVIVORS OF INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOLS The people walked south into Watersmeet, their orange shirts glowing in the sunlight of a beautiful, fall […]
Monarchs of Peninsula Point
Just as the Peninsula Point Lighthouse guided ships on Lake Michigan, the Stonington Peninsula guides Monarch butterflies as they begin their 1900-mile journey south to their wintering grounds in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. In the fall, thousands of Monarchs can be seen here waiting for favorable conditions to help them cross Lake Michigan. […]
UP Wild Nature Prayer Service in Rapid River
For many, the word church brings up images of beautiful stained glass, the sound of hymns, and the smell of candles. But for the people who attended UP Wild’s Nature Prayer Service in Rapid River, church was the surrounding trees set against a UP sky, the murmur of wind in leaves, and the smell of […]