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Evangelical Environment Network has released its Creation Care Sermon Starter for the month of February, Christ, Creator. It focuses on the beginning of the world and how important it is to take care of it. It emphasizes scriptures John 1:1-18; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Hebrews 1:1-3, and Colossians 1:15-20. To read or download this sermon starter, click here.
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This toolkit is meant to provide resources for the Season of Creation. It offers ways to incorporate creation into your congregation through prayer, advocacy, and worksheets. To see the entire toolkit, click here.
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The Evangelical Environmental Network Moms is a new resource from EEN. It is specifically for busy moms and is meant to offer easy, downloadable bible studies. The first resource being offered is “Healthy Creation= Healthy Children” and can be downloaded now. To learn more or download it, click here.
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In continuation of their Creation Care Sermon Starters and Devotional Series, the Evangelical Environmental Network released a sermon starter for the month of August. It is called Tending to the Garden and focuses on being outside and connected to nature and gardening. To read or download this resource, click here.
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The Evangelical Environmental Network has created a new resource for assistance in ecological sermons. It is called Restoration is Coming and offers sermon starters related to creation care focusing on ecological restoration. To read or download this resource, click here.
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Bible and Ecology offers a web page that lists bible verses that are specific to creation and the relation between people and earth. To read all 52 of these scriptures, click here.
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Interfaith Power & Light offers The Poverty of Global Climate Change, a National Council of Churches Eco Justice resource on the impacts of climate change, especially on the poor and vulnerable population. This document states background information on climate change, how humans make it worse with our daily habits, and how to start on the path to making it right. It also offers sermon starters and other resources to help teach the relation between faith and the environment. To read The Poverty of Global Climate Change, click here.
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The Season of Creation is an optional season for the church year. For the most part, the seasons of the church follow Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, and Easter and the remainder of the year encompasses Pentecost Season. The Season of Creation, also known as “Creation Time,” can be celebrated at different points in the church year. The purpose is to help turn the attention of religious followers to their relationship with God and all of creation and to strengthen the relationship with God through his creation.To watch a video introducing the Season of Creation, click here. To read more and visit different resources offered by the Let All Creation Praise website, click here.
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Creation Justice Ministries offers downloadable resources to help educate on faith and climate change. They have resources on climate and energy, Earth Day, environmental health, and land & water stewardship. There is also a free download on how to build a creation friendly church. To access these free downloads, click here.
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Let’s Talk Faith and Climate: Communication Guidance for Faith Leaders is a webinar designed to present findings and explanations on climate action as a moral imperative. Their website includes tools to assist in making an impact and success stories. It also includes a guide to deepen engagement on climate action. To watch the webinar and learn more, click here.