Creation Justice Work Teams

If you’re interested in finding ways to incorporate creation justice into your weekly worship, join the Worship Working Group! This team has created worship materials for Season of Creation and Eastertide and explores other ways to support pastors and worship leaders across the denomination to incorporate eco-theology into their worship. They are also building relationships to facilitate the development and sharing of creation-focused worship resources with the whole denomination and beyond.

Please contact Kristina Sinks at kristina.sinks@garrett.edu if you would like to get involved. See also: Video clip about the Worship Team

This team supports and promotes advocacy for Creation Justice policy. They meet to discuss ways to identify and promote state and federal policies consistent with the United Methodist Social Principles that support Creation Justice. This group produced a four-part Faith Advocacy Series in 2020 and guides action alerts sent out by the Communication Team. 

For more information about this team Contact Paul Slenz at pslentz53@gmail.com. See also: Video clip about the Advocacy Team.

The Interfaith Solar Campaign is building a national movement of congregations already with solar and those that want to get solar panels. There is strength in numbers. We invite you to join us to help build this movement.

Please contact Lou Stagnitto at 503. 997. 0970 or at strategicsolarguy@gmail.com for more information or to get involved.

This group explores climate finance strategies such as fossil fuels divestment from banks, pension funds, and other financial institutions as an issue of faith and an area where churches can find ways to act at every level. We work to provide
1) a detailed rationale for church involvement, including ethical/theological justification
2) links to other groups that have similar goals, such as Stop the Money Pipeline and Go Fossil Free, so individuals or faith communities who want to take action have plenty of resources.

Visit https://fossilfreeumc.net/ 
or contact info@fossilfreeumc.net for more information.

(Meets monthly on the 1st Monday of the month). The Communication Team works to build communication channels to support the larger work of the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement. It publishes the monthly UM Creation Justice Update newsletter and the UM Creation Justice Tips. It maintains the movement’s website at umcreationjustice.org and social media platforms (Facebook group, Instagram). If you have skills in database management, social media, writing, editing, design, marketing, podcasting, video conferencing, and so forth, we welcome you to join us. We also encourage folks to share our newsletters in your networks, and join ongoing conversations happening through social media channels. And we warmly welcome content ideas: events, resources, theme ideas, articles, videos, etc. that we can share in future newsletters.

Contact umcreationjustice@gmail.com to learn more.

The 2024 UMC General Conference passed legislation that each conference “shall name a conference Caretakers of God’s Creation Coordinator”. We are creating a space for those conference level coordinators to gather and share and dream into what this position means locally and connectionally.

Contact  Ghubbard@neumc.org to get information on upcoming gatherings that are held on Zoom second Mondays of EVEN months at 4 pm ET | 3 pm CT | 2 pm MT | 1 pm PT | 12 AKT.

Do you lead an outdoor church or worship experience? Join us as we create the UM Wild Church Network to connect and resource wild church leaders across the connection.

Contact Rev. Corey Turnpenny pastorcoreyt@gmail.com

The goal of this team is to establish Creation Justice/Creation Care teams in every annual conference and to support and connect annual conference and jurisdictional partners. This group meets approximately monthly, to discuss ways the UM Creation Justice Movement can support and connect work at annual conference level. The group has identified Creation Justice leaders in most annual conferences of the United States, is holding quarterly jurisdictional networking Zoom calls and offered a seven-part Annual Conference Organizing Workshop Series. More Information about annual conference resources is on the website here. The seven-part Annual Conference Organizing Series from 2021–2022 is here.

Contact Karen McElfish at james.mcelfish@verizon.net to learn more. See also: Video Clip about Annual Conference Organizing Team