Resources for Care of Creation

15 Steps?! Yes. The guide presents a simple but comprehensive process to create effective climate communications. Drawn from research and real life experience from ecoAmerica and our partners, it works with any audience.

We are a dynamic, good-humored, fun group of Pilgrims and friends that has undertaken the goal of caring for God’s Green Earth starting right here at home! We believe that the choices of each individual can and do make a difference, with an understanding that many competing priorities and opportunities affect those choices. We seek to maintain a supportive community where stories are told, skills are taught, and grace abounds. We feel that the best way to foster priority for creation among ourselves and others is to help each other find opportunities to practice it.

We offer a library of care-for-creation commentaries on scripture readings, thanks to a dedicated group of commentators (see their bios here). The commentaries follow the Revised Common Lectionary and cover every Sunday in the church year. They explore ways an eco-theological interpretation may be an integral part of a theologically sound, exegetically based, understanding of scripture and well-known Bible verses.

This guide will show you new ways to serve God, love
your neighbor, be good stewards, act for the good of creation, live out your faith, work for justice, help make your congregation more financially stable, and strengthen your moral witness to the world.

Sample sermons for preaching creation care in your pulpit and worship space

One action to do for the sake of creation for each week of the year.

Here, each piece of Luther’s Small Catechism is followed by a learning question, then by a suggested participatory action. You may use this personally, or print one section each week in your bulletin, or adapt it for confirmation classes. This is only one way to try seeing the entirety of our faith as permeated with creation care.

This guide offers tips on how to initiate new conversations with the faithful, how to create one’s own successful, value-based messages, and how to utilize specific wording that has been tested for its ability to bring people together regarding climate issues. Additionally, this document provides guidance on how to more deeply integrate creation care concerns into one’s own organization, ministry, or denomination

We are called to care for God's creation as an integral part of our Christian faith and identity. The Care of Creation work group is dedicated to embrace this calling. We are a group which explores life-giving ideas: where best practices within our synod and the larger church and community can be shared, where action and advocacy are encouraged, and where we become part of the public and teaching voice of the Church.