Growing a Creation Justice Movement in the UMC

 

The Creation Justice Movement is emerging at this kairos moment to connect and support groups within the United Methodist Church and beyond for the work of creation care, justice and regeneration.

Join Others Who Are Engaged in Environmental Justice and Build Your Local Grassroots Community

The Global Ministries Creation Care Network is an online platform to help members of The United Methodist Church and established ministry partners put Creation Care and environmental justice values into action. 

UMCJM has joined the
Love Your Neighbor Coalition

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Change begins when people unite.

Justice is realized when people act.

The United Methodist Church possesses a rich tradition of statements, writings, and resolutions affirming the vocation of all Christians to live in healthy, charitable, and just relationship with the whole of creation. Increasing numbers of United Methodists are responding to this call by taking action for ecological healing and environmental justice within local churches and communities, through our connectional system, and in partnership with ecumenical, interfaith, and public environmental movements.

At the same time, in an age of widespread social and environmental degradation threatening human and planetary wellbeing, many United Methodists are asking with renewed urgency what more we are called to do in faithfulness to God to care for creation and do justice with our neighbors. The interconnected crises of rising CO2 emissions, climate chaos, biodiversity collapse, land, water, and air pollution, and multiple forms of social inequity, including especially systemic racism, economic injustice, and intergenerational violence, require widespread change at every level of personal, social, cultural, economic, and political life today. The United Methodist Creation Justice Movement has emerged in this kairos time of urgency, crisis, and opportunity to join our many faithful responses together through the power of collective, connectional action.

This website hub has been created to build connections within and partnerships outside the United Methodist Church, to facilitate communication for the sharing of best practices and resources, to increase power through collaborative action, and ultimately to grow the number and impact of Christians engaged in ministries of creation care, renewal, and justice.

Creation Justice Tips

A simple, free monthly resource for churches

Build a movement of people in your congregation who are taking simple actions to care for creation.

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Find the latest news and events from across the Creation Justice movement.

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Tools, resources, and opportunities for people engaged in creation justice at home, church, and beyond.

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Our blog combines monthly entries from our Creation Justice Tips along with articles and videos about creation justice from various sources. If you’d like to contribute something, contact us for more details.

4th Annual Fall Festival: Saint Matthews UMC Greensboro, NC

4th Annual Fall Festival: Saint Matthews UMC Greensboro, NC

By Karlah Burton On Saturday, October 5, 2024, the Creation Care Ministry at Saint Matthews UMC, hosted a fall festival—an Earth advocacy/healthy eating based fair. In 2023, SMUMC became a commissioned “Green Church” as designated by the Western NC Conference. The...

November 2024 Movement Café

November Movement Café: Relationship, life, and Practice in Regenerative Monastic Community with Elaine HeathNovember 20th 2024 10am PT / 11am MT / 12pm CT / 1pm ETSponsored by the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement, the informal, virtual space of the Café...

We Are Not Alone:  Our 50 Year Journey to Eden

We Are Not Alone:  Our 50 Year Journey to Eden

By John Pitney 50 years ago, September 28, 1974, Debbie and I were married in a ceremony with way too many clergy, down by the duck pond on our seminary campus, the Methodist Theological School in Ohio (MTSO). Surrounded by a sacred human community of seminary...

I hope that creation care will be embraced as part of our churches’ evangelism efforts. Creation care is good news for people and good news for all life on the planet. A sustainable revival of churches is dependent on creation care.

 

Rev. Dr. Mark Y. A. Davies (source)