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Welcome.
This section provides extensive resources for congregations seeking to make care for creation part of every facet of congregational life. Dave Rhoads, LRC Director.
If you have ideas, questions, or comments contact me at drhoads@lstc.edu. Try These Ideas Bulletin/Newsletter Items! Here are several lists of bible verses, tips, and reflections to put in your bulletin or newsletter. Just give them to the person who does the bulletin and have them enetered each week.
Worshiping with Creation. Structure your worship from beginning to end with references to God the creaor, to creation, and to our role in creation.
Care for Creation Resources.
Manuals: Download free the training manual for green teams, a comprehensive checklist, a guide for property, and a resource for Eath-care in all denominations.
*A new version of the Earthkeeping manual for congregations is here. The LRC congregational manual is also available as a PDF file with enhanced graphics. Getting starting: if you are new to this, all you need to get going.
For the advanced: Revive your efforts or step it up a notch.
Worship: Revitalize worship
Education: Need care for creation ideas? Here they are.
Property: Make your building and grounds a model of creation care.
Member lifestyle: Care for creation at home and work.
Public Witness: The church exists for the sake of the world. Make a difference.
Theology: two articles and a video series recommendation to learn the Lutheran Foundations for Care of Creation. Season of Creation: A powerful set of liturgical, theological, and study tools for fostering creation care in worship life. www.letallcreationpraise.org and www.seasonofcreation.com A Sense of Place.
Lutheran resources from Madison, WI. A Garden Curriculum and a program for "Enhancing Your Congregation's Sense of Place." www.yourplacematters.net |
ELCA World Hunger links: It is critical to see the connections between ecological degradation and the pervasive problems worldwide with poverty and hunger. The ELCA has a mission to address hunger and poverty at home and abroad. Our congregations need to know about these connections and to mobilize to address them. Here are some links to the ELCA educational resouces for congregations related to poverty and hunger.
Learn more about the ELCA’s anti-hunger and anti-poverty ministry, and access a wealth of resources, ideas, and links to help start your congregation’s anti-hunger efforts or connect to environmental emphases through the lens of hunger and poverty. ELCA World Hunger Toolkit on Climate Change Connections Take yourself, your class, or your congregation on a journey that explores the intersections between climate change and hunger. These toolkits are designed to be a program-in-a-box or customizable segments of information and activities for use in many congregational or educational settings ELCA World Hunger Taking Root: Hunger Causes, Hunger Hopes Curriculum This is a complete curriculum spanning ages from Kindergarten through 12th grade that contains severalactivities related to climate change and environmental concerns. Contact the ELCA World Hunger office for assistance in finding the right part of the curriculum for your needs. Get your creative sermon juices flowing with ideas and ponderings about each Sunday’s lectionary from a hunger-focused perspective. While you’re there, sign up for the Hunger Sermon Starters listserv and receive weekly e-mails with upcoming postings. Many ELCA World Hunger Reproducible Stories feature climate- or earth-related issues and success stories. Browse current stories online or order a printed copy of the latest stories. Informative articles on climate change and poverty:
__Check out articles and resources by Mary Minette, ELCA environment and hunger advocate in Washington, D. C. at
__Be sure to view the Lutheran video and study guide on the impact of climate change on poor, agricultural communities in Nicaragua at
__See also "Climate Change and Poverty" by Brian Konkol, who currently serves in South Africa as ELCA Country Coordinator of the Young Adults in Global Mission program.
Monthly Theme Programs:
Here are all the materials you need to carry out a theme program for a period of time in your congregation: fTheological and theological foundations; many suiggestions for action at church and in the home; bulletin announcements; bible study, and further resources.
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