Tucked within the Fanwood Memorial Garden, our Pollinator Garden is a living testament to the theology we preach inside: that care for creation is an act of faith.

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Under the loving and expert guidance of volunteer Pammy Lewis and a dedicated team, this pesticide-free sanctuary has been cultivated for bees, butterflies, moths, skippers, and other beneficial insects. Native and nectar-rich plantings including wild bergamot, bee balm, lavender, coreopsis, echinacea coneflower, calico beardtongue, French marigolds, sunflowers, and garlic chives offer food and habitat to the pollinators our ecosystem depends on.

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That this garden grows among the memorials of those we have loved and lost is no accident. Pollinators are themselves a parable: they sustain life quietly, carrying what is needed from one place to the next, making possible the blooming of things they will never see. In that sense, they are not so different from the faithful lives we remember here. The garden is a reminder that nurture continues, that life returns, that nothing given in love is ever truly lost.

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All are welcome to visit, to sit, and to watch what grows.