MISSION & Ministry
Climate & Creation Care
In Jesus, God so loved the whole world. We follow Jesus, so we love the world God loves. Concerned about the global climate emergency, drawing from a range of approaches for our diverse contexts, we commit to form and restore loving, liberating, life-giving relationships with all of Creation.
LOVING FORMATION
For God’s sake, we will grow our love for the Earth and all of life through preaching, teaching, storytelling and prayer.
- We will work to tell our own story, using social media (#EpiscopalCreation) and story-sharing resources
- We will explore online formation and learning opportunities, and support youth involvement in these activities
- We will participate in the World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation on September 1 of each year
- We will commend to our worship leaders the use of online creation resources for preaching and liturgy
- We will organize pilgrimages and hands-on engagement with nature
LIBERATING ADVOCACY
For God’s sake, standing alongside marginalized, vulnerable peoples, we will advocate and act to repair Creation and seek the liberation and flourishing of all people.
- We will encourage and facilitate the use of carbon trackers in all of our worship communities and in the places where our members make choices about energy use
- We will perform energy audits and set energy consumption goals in our communities
- We will reduce energy consumption and waste, put in place programs to recycle what we can, and advocate for access to recycling in our communities
- We will use carbon offsets for Convocation travel
- We will responsibly steward ministry-owned lands
LIFE-GIVING CONSERVATION
For God’s sake, we will adopt practical ways of reducing our climate impact and living more humbly and gently on Earth as individuals, households, congregations, institutions and dioceses.
- We call on the European Institute of Christian Studies to search out and share resources for learning more about environmental racism, eco- and environmental justice
- We will work to support developing societies find a path toward a just transition to sustainable economic development, and to build global climate resilience with partner groups
Climate & Creation Care Newsletter
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Upcoming Events
no current events planned
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Zero Waste Lent 2022
As we prepare for the watchful season of Lent, the Creation & Climate Change ministry initiative and the members of the Creation Care Grassroots Network warmly invite and encourage the people of the Convocation to join us in ZERO WASTE LENT 2022, a Lenten series of themed weekly discussions about climate change and our Christian responsibility to care for God’s creation.
Earth Day 2021
There’s so much happening in climate & creation care in 2021 – that there is growing optimism that the UN COP conference in November will provide a fresh impetus for the urgent action that’s needed to save our biosphere. But as Earth Day approaches it’s worth asking the question: will it be a case of just in time or too little too late?
Task force summary report 2020
live at convention 2020
Resources
susan Pinnell's Best Practices for Churches
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Current membership of the Climate & creation care ministry
Anita Urassa
Chair, Member of Emmanuel Church (Geneva, Switzerland
Thomas Müller
(Santa Maria a Ferrano)
Monica Müeller Romer
Member of the Church of Ascension (Munich, Germany)
Susan Pinnells
Member of The Anglican/Episcopal Church of St. Augustine of Canterbury, Wiesbaden
The Rev. Michael Rusk
Rector, Emmanuel Church (Geneva, Switzerland)
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