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Eco-Congregation Scotland provides a weekly resource for Creation Time, Scotland’s title for the Season of Creation. The first week is focused on passing on the gift of integrity and it includes a song, correlating scripture, sermon ideas, time with children, prayers, musical suggestions, and additional resources. To read more or download the week one resource, click here.
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The Exeter Diocese, which is a part of the Church of England, is promoting electric vehicles for its clergy, staff and readers with a discount on Hyundai Ioniq cars (hybrids and full electric vehicles). The Diocese also promotes electric bikes as an easy way to get to church. They purchased a few to allow clergy members to trial the e-bikes and have been continuously promoting the use of bikes or electric transportation in their parish. To read more, click here.
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The third week of the Season of Creation is focused on water. This week contains a call to prayer, a hymn, and a song. It also recommends water sounds to be played in the background and seven candles to be lit and placed in water. To read more, click here.
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The Church of England has created a service that is focused on rural communities and the impacts climate change has on them. It is meant to be a guide for a service and includes resources from beginning to end. To read more, click here.
For a similar service on Urban communities, click here.
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Faith Based Farms is a webinar about communities and families across the United States that show their faith through farming. Cole Flynn, the travels from from New Jersey, to Wisconsin, to Michigan, and talks to a wide diversity of people including Muslims, Christians, and even a Druid. To watch Faith Based Farms, click here.
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Being a Good Neighbor is a meeting guide from Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) MOMS about being aware of what happens in your neighborhood. Many people are not aware that their communities are located near natural gas drilling, landfills, chemical production and other toxic industrial plants. As Christians, EEN believes it is a responsibility to be aware and protect your neighbors by caring, understanding, and praying. To read more, click here.
To download the meeting guide, click here.
To download the handcards that correspond with the meeting guide, click here.
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How Bad is Air Conditioning is an article from Evangelical Environmental Network MOMS about the harmful impacts of air conditioning and a Christian’s responsibilities to the earth. Air conditioning accounts for 6% of America’s residential energy usage and releases about 100 million tons of carbon dioxide each year. The article offers some simple and some challenging ways to reduce the temperature without using air conditioning. To read more, click here.
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This meeting guide from Evangelical Environmental Network MOMS offers ways to live in a simple, toxic free home. It focuses on ways to protect children from fossil fuels and consumption of chemicals that are known to cause diseases. This includes reading labels, dumping processed foods, and more. To read more, click here.
To download the meeting guide, click here.
To download the handcard that corresponds with this guide, click here.
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For Love of Lavender is an account of how Christine Sine, creator of Godspace and writer for Evangelical Environmental Network MOMS, encountered God through the beauty, fragrance, and abundance of the lavender in her garden. She discusses how reflecting on her garden teaches her about God and reminds her of many Bible verses such as Proverbs 27:9 The heart is delighted by the fragrance of oil and sweet perfumes, and in just the same way, the soul is sweetened by the wise counsel of a friend. She also discusses how to use these lessons to teach children. To read more, click here.
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Evangelical Environmental Network has created a resource to give tips and hacks on using less energy. It also includes ways to make energy efficient kits that can be distributed at churches or used as a mission project. To read more click here.