The University of West Florida Green Earth Fellowship (a Pagan Campus Ministry) is an eclectic Earth-based fellowship of students, alumni, sympathetic community members, staff, and faculty.  The organization was founded in the late-1980s, remaining intermittently active over the past twelve years.  The early membership grounded itself as a free-thinking collective operating quietly on the fringes of the UWF community.  The most recent incarnation of the group has maintained the original absurdist attitude toward formal organization (see our constitution), but has pursued positive campus recognition through activities, regular public meetings, and a pattern of Solar Circles since 1998.  Since our members practice many different spiritual paths, we also maintain diverse contacts in the wider Pagan communities of Pensacola and the Southeastern United States.  Our primary campus objective is to provide contact and support for pagans in the university community through circles, discussions, and meetings.  As a public and educational group, we are also dedicated to informing interested non-pagans about the realities of today's Earth religions  (including Wicca, Druidism, and other organized approaches to the craft) and their foundations in recent and ancient history.  This includes the relationships of paganism to Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and other mainstream religious philosophies.  We are also particularly interested in the topic of anti-pagan discrimination throughout our culture, and actively support community action to reduce religious intolerance when we encounter it.  All of our meetings and circles are open, though we are careful to protect our members' privacy, meeting agendas, and circle activities from outside disruption or proselytization.  All of our activities are strictly alcohol free.

Current Active Members:  The membership of Green Earth Fellowship is, as one might expect, ever changing.  We try to accommodate the diverse interests of the pagan community and to link individuals with common paths.  There are a number of solitary practitioners on campus with whom we interact, but who do not regularly attend our meetings.  There are at present about 5 active students, 2 staff, 2 faculty, and 4 or 5 alumni who support our meetings or otherwise support the PCM on a regular basis.  Questions concerning membership, meetings, or current spiritual paths represented in the membership should be addressed to the faculty advisor, Terry Prewitt (tprewitt@uwf.edu).

Circles and other Special Activities: Each year, Green Earth Fellowship hosts regular Circles on or near the following European pagan holidays:  Imbolc (Feb. 1), Ostara (Spring Equinox), Beltane (May 1), Midsummer (Summer Solstice), Lughnasadh (Aug. 1), Mabon (Fall Equinox), Samhain (Nov. 1) Yule (Winter Solstice).  These events are sometimes held in coordination with other area groups.  The exact locations of circles are announced in the regular meetings; they are usually held in the early evening on a date close to the "official" holiday time.  All these events are free, outdoor, eclectic, alcohol-free, and led by Green Earth Fellowship members or designates invited by the group.  When possible we have a fire in the circle ground, and at some of our meetings we ask for food contributions which go to the Manna Food Bank of Pensacola.  Our group is financially supported by the Student Government Association, which makes it possible for us to organize visiting speakers and other public community activities.  Children are typically welcome at our events.  In order to avoid disruption, we sometimes restrict some small children from participating in circles which will involve long devotional activities. We encourage non-members and non-pagans to attend regular fellowship meetings before visiting a circle meeting; this allows us to provide orientation on circle etiquette and our holiday traditions.