How have your plans to integrate creation care in your congregation’s life been working out? Did you complete an Action Plan? Are you celebrating the Season of Creation? Have you started a Green Team?
Stay connected & share updates to keep momentum! We want to help celebrate and share advice on challenges. Take a stroll through the stories shared by other members below, or add your own story by completing this form (click here)!

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

Actions Speak Loudly!
Add your congregation's voice to this growing garden: CLICK HERE and pick at least one Creation Care goal proposed/met for ...

Special Caring for Creation Celebration (Bethel – WI)
Special Caring for Creation Celebration November 13 and 20 ...

“Cool Congregation” Interfaith Award: Energy & Carbon Reductions
“Cool Congregation” Interfaith Award: Energy & Carbon Reductions ...

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 ...

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 ...

Creation Care Video – Migration
Holy Trinity's Creation Care Team produces a monthly video featuring a creation care theme. This month's video is about migration: ...

Act of Solidarity in Support of the Earth Charter
An Act of Solidarity -All Synods – All Congregations– Earth Sunday April 24th The NY Metro synod asks all synods ...

Urban Farm on Seminary Campus
Here is a link to an article about our newly dedicated urban farm, a collaboration between our seminary and Axiom ...

Creation-themed monthly video devotion: Trees
The Creation Care Team of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Port Angeles, WA produces a monthly creation-themed video devotion. This month's ...

Creation Spirituality Video Devotion (Winter)
Holy Trinity's Creation Care Team (Port Angeles - WA) is producing a monthly creation themed video devotion. Here is the ...

Free Lighting Upgrade
Thanks to Ken Furuyama from Faith Lutheran Church in Cambridge, MA for sharing this Good Green News (2022) The process ...

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, ...

Plastic Recycling Example for Church work in the Community
Thanks to Wilbur Holz in Rapid City, SD for sharing this example and resource: Trex https://www.trex.com/ the decking company has ...

Lisa Brenskelle
Lisa Brenskelle serves as the Lutherans Restoring Creation Team Lead for the Texas Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod of the ELCA ...

Season of Creation Sunset Prayer Service
Good Shepherd's Creation Care Team hosted a picnic and led an ecumenical Sunset Prayer service on Wednesday, September 8th to ...

Rev. Dr. H. Paul Santmire Publishes New Book Dedicated to Lutherans Restoring Creation and it’s Founder, David Rhoads
The Rev. Dr. H. Paul Santmire, Lutherans Restoring Creation (LRC) Advisory Board member, has published a new book dedicated to ...

The Green Foundation of Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg
Geothermal Comes to the Battlefield By Delaney Schlake (M. Div Middler, Trinity Lutheran Seminary) 150 years ago, the Lutheran Theological Seminary ...

First Lutheran in Decorah Signs Paris Pledge
by Sarah Webb, Iowa Interfaith Power & Light First Lutheran in Decorah signed the Paris Pledge, joining other congregations across ...
2016 Churchwide Assembly Passes Memorial To Move Towards A Responsible Energy Future
2016 Churchwide Assembly Passes Memorial To Move Towards A Responsible Energy Future During the months leading up to the August ...

South Carolina Hosts Communion with Creation
Thanks to Rev. Kris Litman-Koon, as the South Carolina's Synod Creation Care convener, a group of ELCA members from across ...

Growing a garden church from food scraps and compost
We turned an empty lot in L.A. into an edible sanctuary. by Anna Woofenden (shared from Christian Century magazine) When I moved ...

March 2, 2019: Central States’ Workshop
Everyone is invited to attend the day-long Creation Care Workshop led by members of the Central States Synod Lutherans Restoring ...

Congregation celebrates “green graduation,” invites wider community (2017)
Members of LCI gather on the steps of the California Capitol to join California Interfaith Power and Light’s Lobby Day ...

Southeastern Synod’s Green Task Force
What a wonderful story of regional advocacy! The Southeastern Synod decided to enlist a caring for creation "task force" at ...

Young Leaders Emerging from Central States Group
The Central States Synod Lutherans Restoring Creation (LRC) Mission Table is made up of volunteers from across the Synod who ...