Creation Justice Tips
Free, monthly tips for churches to use in their worship bulletin, church newsletter, weekly emails, and more.
Start somewhere. Grow from there.
Our Creation Care Tips resource offers you a simple way to get your congregation actively involved as individuals, families or teams in creation justice and environmental ministry!
Each month, 10 tips are provided that are easy to implement, biblically and theologically sound, and educational.
July 2026 Tips: Do What You Can
Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction. Remember that when you feel overwhelmed or down because of the enormity of our climate crises. Do what you can, wherever you can, whenever you can. That’s very Wesleyan.July Tips Get rid of your junk catalogs. Over 100...
June 2026 Tips: First, Do No Harm
First, Do No Harm!Second, Do Good!Third, Stay in Love With God! These General Rules of John Wesleyapply to creation justice ina myriad of ways, beginning with how we think—First, do no harm!June Tips Stop using Styrofoam. This single-use “convenience” has its raw...
May 2026 Creation Justice Tips: Loving Nature
Uncommon care for our common green spaces—national, state, city, neighborhood, and pocket parks, greenways, biking and hiking trails—each a patch of Eden, calling us to tend and keepfor all creatures for all time.May 2026 Immerse yourself in nature. Try forest bathing...
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Why Use Them
A simple tool for busy church staff.
Church administrators and other staff have lots to do each week. Our monthly tips help you offer important, useful and inspiring content to your members without taking a lot of your time. They’re an easy way to get people involved move deeply in creation care and the related justice issues! Just choose what you want to use; then cut-and-paste.
Where to Use Them
Do what works for you!
These tips can be used as-is or edited for your setting. We think they’re perfect for church bulletins especially, but feel free to put them in newsletters, weekly emails, blog posts, sermons, and other church communications. We would appreciate it if you credit the source, when possible: “Creation Justice Tips.”
Who Created Them
It’s a team effort.
The tips are being written and edited by a team, led by Crys Zinkiewicz, a former United Methodist Publishing House editor and a 2019 graduate of the Earthkeepers program of UMC Mission. Click here to read more about Crys and the origin story of the tips.
Meet the Creator of the Tips
Crys Zinkiewicz has worked in publishing, primarily focusing on curriculum for youth, for over thirty years. Her long career as an editor at the United Methodist Publishing House gave her a rich understanding of the needs and challenges in local congregations.
In 2019, Crys took part in the Earthkeepers program of UMC Mission. Each Earthkeeper proposes a project and works on it during the event and beyond. The initial Creation Care Tips were written and edited by her, with feedback coming from a team of supporters. Her goal is to provide theologically- and biblically-sound ideas that can be utilized in any congregation in worship bulletins and other church media.
Crys is passionate about gardening and horses, and recently published a book about horses for organization she voluneers with called Saddle Up. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from The Ohio State University and a Master of Arts in Christian Education from Scarritt Graduate School in Nashville, Tennessee.
“A Tip is a seemingly small thing, but when it comes from a church we love, it means something big: This is God’s creation. I can do this to help take care of it.”
—Crys Zinkiewicz
Here’s a Sample Tip
Jesus has told us that we are to care for the “least of these who are members of [Christ’s] family” (Matthew 25:40). Working to ameliorate climate change recognizes that people like Jesus described, those with few resources or connections, will suffer the most from the ravages that are more and more evident.
Jesus calls us to care for humanity and to work for climate justice.
