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Native Land Acknowledgment: Processes to Heal, Steps to Restore

Native Land Acknowledgment: Processes to Heal, Steps to Restore

As we live, work, and worship in the land that is now called the United States, Lutherans Restoring Creation recognizes ...
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Booker Vance

Booker Vance

Booker Vance is the Policy Outreach Coordinator for Elevate Energy.  He is a native of Houston, TX. He attended Bethany ...
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Harold Vanicek

Harold Vanicek

As a youngster growing up in Rosebud, Texas, Pastor Harold Vanicek could often be found with dirty hands working in ...
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Henry Huntington, Board Secretary

Henry Huntington, Board Secretary

henryphuntington at gmail dot com 23834 The Clearing Dr. Eagle River, AK  99577 (907) 696-3564 Current Position/Vocation/Location Arctic Science Director, ...
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5 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day as Church

5 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day as Church

Integrate Creation Care elements into your worship service: register to use the upcoming LRC worship service, get inspiration from these ...
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Pathways to Pollination

Pathways to Pollination

In March of 2023, ELCA churches across Northeastern Minnesota's EcoFaith Network shared inspiration and resources regarding their teams' exciting new ...
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Lead-Free Superhero!

Lead-Free Superhero!

The Lead-Free Superhero! We were honored to have Aiden and Deanna Branch share their experience growing the Coalition on Lead ...
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Hosting a Discussion with a Group:

Hosting a Discussion with a Group:

Are you ready to welcome people from your church +/or community to discuss our call to Care for Creation? You ...
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Actions Speak Loudly!

Actions Speak Loudly!

Actions Speak Loudly! Intentions, Celebrations, and Impacts Online Form Add your congregation's voice:  CLICK HERE and pick at least one ...
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Food - Faith - Farming

Food – Faith – Farming

Since there are so many members of our ELCA community who live in agricultural areas and we all depend on ...
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Water discipleship tool for Congregations!

Water discipleship tool for Congregations!

Vermont Lutheran Church partners with Interfaith Power & Light to Share the Various Ways to Revere Water: In 2018, Vermont ...
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Creation Care Ministry at Christ the King

Creation Care Ministry at Christ the King

Creation Care Ministry at Christ the King ...
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Special Caring for Creation Celebration (Bethel - WI)

Special Caring for Creation Celebration (Bethel – WI)

Special Caring for Creation Celebration November 13 and 20 ...
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Nature-Based Solutions

Nature-Based Solutions

This interview led by ELCA's Sustainability Associate, Adele Bodog, follows Donna Pellegrin Permaculture design certificate holder, who uses her certification to conduct ...
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Profiles for Inspiration (video playlist)

Profiles for Inspiration (video playlist)

https://www.youtube.com/embed?listType=playlist&list=PLFPMTinJ7FKma7Oa82bNlZRYbRso6yGPN&layout=gallery ...
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Winter Sowing with the Community

Winter Sowing with the Community

Thanks to Donna Pellegerin for submitting this Good Green News! At Christ the King Lutheran Church (CtK) in West Chester, ...
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Babcock Ranch, Florida - Babcock Ranch

Babcock Ranch, Florida – Babcock Ranch

The Community Church, a mission of the ELCA in Babcock Ranch, the first solar city in the United States, host ...
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Honoring Our Sacred Trust - Gardening (MO)

Honoring Our Sacred Trust – Gardening (MO)

St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, Columbia, MO - Forty eight people participated in an intergenerational planting of native Missouri shrubs in ...
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Vegetable Garden at Trinity Lutheran Church (Ft. Collins, CO)

Vegetable Garden at Trinity Lutheran Church (Ft. Collins, CO)

Trinity Lutheran Church volunteers have maintained a vegetable garden at its location for 8 years. More recently, volunteers from the ...
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Local Electric Cooperatives as Tools for Equity and Healing

Local Electric Cooperatives as Tools for Equity and Healing

EmPOWER your community to communicate with who manages your energy! Hear from Emilie Bouvier, Director of Organizing in the Minneapolis ...
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Tools for Talking and Listening

Tools for Talking and Listening

Being church together doesn't have to mean we have one mind.  Listening to the Holy Spirit within each of our ...
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Where are we off to in '22 (Dec. 2021 Connections Call)

Where are we off to in ’22 (Dec. 2021 Connections Call)

Chat Log to download For more information regarding the specific materials mentioned during this call also check out this post ...
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Gratitude Connections Call (Nov. 2021)

Gratitude Connections Call (Nov. 2021)

We thank you for being a part of our Creation Care Ministry! Please listen to our gathering of gratitude below ...
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Stewarding the Gift of Water: ELCA Advocacy Fact Sheet

Stewarding the Gift of Water: ELCA Advocacy Fact Sheet

Theological background and information on water stewardship globally, nationally, and locally. Under the “Find Your Watershed” section of the Factsheet ...
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Giving Voice to My Community and Bringing ELCA Advocacy Home

Giving Voice to My Community and Bringing ELCA Advocacy Home

Giving Voice to My Community and Bringing ELCA Advocacy Home Posted on January 26, 2016 by ELCA Advocacy By: Fumi ...
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Companion Sites

Companion Sites

Lutherans Restoring Creation greatly appreciates the volunteers who keep the following resources updated. We are also blessed to have a ...
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Creation Care Congregation: Personal Discipleship Ideas

Creation Care Congregation: Personal Discipleship Ideas

Discipleship at home and work: “Love your neighbor” Personal Covenant with Creation: Plan a worship service in which members can ...
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Guide to Green Degrees and Careers

Guide to Green Degrees and Careers

With environmental issues gaining traction in the social consciousness, green careers are constantly growing in both popularity and availability. In ...
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29 Lutherans in PA were empowered with creation justice tools! (2013)

29 Lutherans in PA were empowered with creation justice tools! (2013)

Many voices come together to make big reverberations! Twenty-nine Lutherans from across Pennsylvania and beyond gathered at Lutheran Theological Seminary ...
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