SOUTH PARIS – Camden author Marina Schauffler will present a multimedia slide program, “Turning to Earth: Exploring the Heart of Environmental Change,” at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22, in the First Congregational Church.

It is cosponsored by the Maine Council of Churches’ Environmental Justice Program and the Maine chapter of the Sierra Club. A potluck supper at 6 p.m. will precede the program. The public is invited to attend the potluck supper and free presentation.

“We’re accustomed to thinking of environmental change as happening around’ us; yet the source of those outer changes often lies within us,” said Schauffler. ” Healing the earth will require an ecological conversion’ of sorts, a profound shift in our understanding of who we are and how we live in the world.”

The program is the second in a series of monthly programs on “building environmental communities neighbor-to-neighbor” sponsored by the two groups. On Friday, Nov. 12, the fall series will conclude with a potluck supper of dishes prepared from locally-grown ingredients and a program on food choices and their impact on the environment. The final program will be in the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Paris.

For directions or more information, people may call Andy Burt of the Maine Council of Churches at 623-0500, or the Rev. Don Mayberry of the First Congregational Church at 743-2437.