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Annual Conferences

UMC Solar in Action

UMC Solar in Action

Here are some inspirational solar stories from across the connection. If you have a UMC solar story to share, please pass it along to umcreationjustice@gmail.com. Thanks!Hamline Church Green Team video about sustainable practices at Hamline Church United Methodist, St...

2023 Annual Conference Season Updates

2023 Annual Conference Season Updates

This past spring, leaders in the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement drafted eight model resolutions and held a 3 part webinar series about them. In response, at least nine annual conferences introduced versions of those resolutions in their conference sessions...

Callings

Circle Up for 2023!

Circle Up for 2023!

By Rev. Richenda Fairhurst   This month we celebrate a new year, 2023! This celestial action is measured, as the years of Jesus’s life were themselves measured, by our moving, spinning Earth. The revolutions and natural workings of this good planet are a gift of the...

Charge From the Land

Charge From the Land

Charge From the Land  By Jacqueline Anderson I wrote this charge (or blessing) as one of three for the opening of the Center of Ecological Regeneration at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in the spring of 2022. I felt drawn to the invitation to write from...

An Introduction to Arrayed

An Introduction to Arrayed

By Lizzy Case I’m excited to share a little of the story of how I launched my Christian apparel brand, Arrayed. In the summer of 2013, I learned to sew. I had just gotten out of a 6-year relationship that left me reeling and in need of stability. I had inherited my...

A Call to Creation Care Ministry

A Call to Creation Care Ministry

Author: Martha Lyle Ford I grew up “in the country” near a small town an hour from Memphis, raised in a house surrounded by agriculture fields, woodlots and pastures, and in the First United Methodist Church of the county seat town, in the midst of an extended family...

Children and Youth

Partner with Girl Scout Tree Promise

Partner with Girl Scout Tree Promise

Faith has been a part of Girl Scouting since Girl Scouts was founded in 1912. As part of the Girl Scout Promise, Girl Scouts pledge to serve God and to help people at all times. By partnering together, faith-based organizations and Girl Scouts build compassionate girl...

Disaster Preparedness

UMCOR Disaster Responses

UMCOR Disaster Responses

Featured Photo Credit: The Footprint Project Author: Rev. Jenny Phillips Senior Technical Advisor, Environmental Stability jphillips@umcmission.org UMCOR, the United Methodist Committee on Relief, is the humanitarian response arm of The United Methodist Church...

Food Security

Community Gardens

Through the Kindness of Volunteers

Through the Kindness of Volunteers

By Karlah Y. Burton Meet Tiana Hargrove, Volunteer with the Community Garden at Saint Matthews UMC A rising senior at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University majoring in social work, Tiana began working with us in our community garden in February....

Saint Matthews’ Summer Garden 2021

Saint Matthews’ Summer Garden 2021

Caption for photo at the top from left to right: E Albertina McGirt, Karlah Burton, Adrian Fleming (seated) Happy Summer!   On behalf of the Creation Care Ministry (CCM) and Community Garden at Saint Matthews United Methodist Church (SMUMC) we are delighted to...

Agriculture

Food Security in Oaxaca, Mexico

Food Security in Oaxaca, Mexico

A graduate student's essays on food security in Oaxaca, Mexico Kiera Lane is a second-year Master of Arts in Public Ministry student at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Her concentrations are in both ecological regeneration and pastoral care and counseling....

Agriculture and Gardening Resources

Agriculture and Gardening Resources

Recommended Books The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith by Fred BahnsonThe Green Good News: Christ’s Path to Sustainable and Joyful Life by T. Wilson Dickinson Rooted...

Global Stories

Food Security in Oaxaca, Mexico

Food Security in Oaxaca, Mexico

A graduate student's essays on food security in Oaxaca, Mexico Kiera Lane is a second-year Master of Arts in Public Ministry student at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Her concentrations are in both ecological regeneration and pastoral care and counseling....

Infrastructure

Just and Free! Fossil Free UMC

Just and Free! Fossil Free UMC

By Sharon DelgadoTo continue on the way of salvation, that is living in harmony with God, we should begin “by doing no harm, avoiding evil of every kind, especially that which is most generally practiced...”I am the convener of a group that is reviving and revisioning...

UMC Solar in Action

UMC Solar in Action

Here are some inspirational solar stories from across the connection. If you have a UMC solar story to share, please pass it along to umcreationjustice@gmail.com. Thanks!Hamline Church Green Team video about sustainable practices at Hamline Church United Methodist, St...

Individuals Can Make A Difference

Individuals Can Make A Difference

By Andrew Hartley   Following Jesus means loving God and loving others, and protecting the earth is all about love: For God, who created Earth as a beautiful masterpiece; and for people, who depend on Earth being clean and healthy. Knowing that, many people say...

Clean Energy Infrastructure Permitting

Clean Energy Infrastructure Permitting

By Andrew Hartley The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 allocated billions of dollars to the deployment of clean energy infrastructure: solar and wind electrical generation, electrical vehicle charging stations, energy efficiency upgrades for buildings, and more....

Inflation Reduction Act and Churches

Inflation Reduction Act and Churches

By Dawn Lewis Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August 2022 was great news for all engaged in Creation Care and concerned about the impacts of growing climate change.   This act has the potential to help reduce America’s carbon emissions 40% by 2030.   ...

Seasonal

Advent & Christmas

Joy to the World!

Joy to the World!

By David BeersI grew up “low Methodist,” meaning we sang Christmas carols during Advent. One of my favorite hymns to sing between Thanksgiving and Epiphany has been “Joy to the World.” Singing it is easy and fun, upbeat, and full of rejoicing. The title itself...

Shop First for Your Values

Shop First for Your Values

By Crys Zinkiewicz Giving gifts is one of the five love languages. But, culturally, it has been enshrined as the premiere way to celebrate Christmas. As Christians, followers of the Christ, we live counter-culturally, keeping God’s gift of love central as best we can;...

The “Gift” of Christmas

The “Gift” of Christmas

An excerpt from Garbage Theology by Rev. Caleb Cray Haynes Have you ever noticed the cans of waste awaiting pick up on the first trash day after Christmas! Each December our landfills are overrun through the celebration of the birth of our Lord. How does any of this...

Plastic-Free July

The Elephant in the Room

The Elephant in the Room

There has always been a close relationship between my faith and my responsibility to care for Earth. Maybe the connection flourished on those family camping trips or perhaps in elementary school or Brownie Scouts, but the idea of the earth as God’s gift to us and our...

Season of Creation

Charge From the Land

Charge From the Land

Charge From the Land  By Jacqueline Anderson I wrote this charge (or blessing) as one of three for the opening of the Center of Ecological Regeneration at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in the spring of 2022. I felt drawn to the invitation to write from...