Healing Trees Announces Tree Planting at Creative Living Fellowship to “Offer Remembrance”

WHAT: Healing Tree Planting at Creative Living Fellowship

WHEN: Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.

WHERE: Creative Living Fellowship, 6530 N. 7th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85014-1202

Healing Trees Announces Tree Planting at Creative Living Fellowship to “Offer Remembrance” -Tree Planting Aims to Heal Communities Following the Tucson Tragedies

PHOENIX, Arizona (February 3, 2011) – Creative Living Fellowship will be the site of the first tree planting for Healing Trees, a humanitarian program to plant trees following the shootings in Tucson last month.

“This tree planting will heal and unite our community. This is our time to do something significant to celebrate life and promote new growth — like planting trees. Through this a life-giving and earth-serving community act, together we can make a difference,” said Annie Loyd of Healing Trees.

A 15-gallon mesquite tree will be planted at Creative Living Fellowship on Sunday, February 13 at 1:00 p.m. Lynn Rocha, a general contractors' specialist with McGraw Hill publications and a community shaman with SpiritKeepers, is underwriting the purchase of the tree from Baker Nurseries. Greg Peterson, founder of Urban Farms and a member of Creative Living Fellowship, will plant a native mesquite. Peterson selected the mesquite because its pods are edible. “You can make flour and all kinds of breads from the mesquite pods as well as mesquite syrup. You can also burn mesquite pods in your barbecue to enhance the flavor of whatever you're cooking. And animals love to chew on the pods,” said Peterson.

Rev. Dr. Michele Whittington, senior minister at Creative Living Fellowship, will be the celebrant for the February 13th planting and Andrew Ecker will lead a drumming ceremony.

About Healing Trees:
As a direct response to the Tucson incidents of January 8, the Healing Trees Humanitarian Program was developed to "Heal Our Communities, Offer Remembrance and Celebrate Life." The FUSION Foundation, the Arizona Community Tree Council and Trees for Tucson | Tucson Clean and Beautiful are working together to provide visual life-giving memorials to commemorate the lives of those who died and honor those who were injured in Tucson on January 8.

About Creative Living Fellowship:

Creative Living Fellowship provides a community where like-minded individuals can learn how to express their full potential. We believe in the unity of all Life and that each Life is a divine expression of God.

WHAT: Healing Tree Planting at Creative Living Fellowship
WHEN: Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: Creative Living Fellowship, 6530 N. 7th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85014-1202
(Creative Living Fellowship is located on the west side of 7th Street, south of Glendale and just north of Maryland. 602.906.4080 phone http://creativelivingfellowship.com Facebook http://www.facebook.com/CreativeLivingFellowship )

MEDIA ADVISORY FOR:
Healing Trees Planting
Contact: Annie Loyd, 602/999-2424
Email: info@healingtrees.org
Tel: 602-999-2424