Discipleship at home and work: “Love your neighbor”
Personal Covenant with Creation: Plan a worship service in which members can identify the Earth-friendly practices they are willing to commit to at home and work. Use a brief ritual that makes these commitments a stewardship offering. Our online form helps you save paper and participants will be sent a copy of what they pledged. Use the link at our site under Personal Discipleship and those eager to make change can be connected with other members of ELCA churches across the country.
Conduct a workshop on making your home Earth-friendly. Use the material available in the as a guide from the EPA’s Personal Carbon Footprint Calculator here or the video series “Living Connected” to inform members about ways they discern a more sustainable lifestyle at home.
Support groups. When making new habits, having accountability partners is key. If you can’t find a team of people at home, or want to widen your network of support, please join us during our next Connections Call and register to get our Good Green News.
Devotional resources: Recommend creation-care resources to members for personal devotions, like this “Stewardship of Creation: A Thirty Day Discipline.” Ask people to sign up to follow a discipline with a resource for a season of the church year.
A retreat in nature. Take a walk outside the next nice day after worship. Lead a retreat for people to get closer to the natural world. Visit your local Outdoor Ministry site (look here for where your closest one may be).
Recycle Diligently. You can use the iRecycle app, which gives 1.6 million ways to recycle 350+materials across the US, based on where you live
These ideas are part of our congregational self-organizing kit. For more details, visit this page.