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)!
Tales from a Green Shepherd, Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg (2013)
The second week in August, 2013, about a dozen and a half Lutherans converged on Singmaster House at the Lutheran ...
Youth Volunteers Improve Energy Efficiency at Koinonia (2016)
By Maggie Hutchison Metropolitan New York Synod, ELCA How many young people does it take to screw in a light ...
Several ELCA Colleges Named in the Sierra Club’s Top “Cool Schools” List (2017)
Muhlenberg College, Luther College, Wartburg College, Wittenberg College, and Pacific Lutheran University were all recently included in the Sierra Club's ...
Featured School: Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
Gettysburg College has been pursuing sustainable decision making for over three decades. As the world's environmental issues grow more and ...
St. Olaf Natural Lands Play an Important Role in Conservation Efforts for Native Species
A story in the Star Tribune newspaper highlights how St. Olaf College's 350 acres of natural lands not only serve ...
Concordia College in Moorhead Hosts Successful Community Tree Planting Event (2017)
A recent community tree planting event was a huge success. More than 60 students, faculty, and staff helped plant trees ...
Capital University Utilizes “Green Thread” Environmental Sustainability Platform
Through Green Thread, Capital University's environmental sustainability platform, innovative and efficient solutions are brought to life. Green Thread helps employees ...
Augsburg Awarded $475,000 to Help Infuse Sustainability Into All Facets of College Life (2017)
In 2017, Augsburg University launched initiatives to build capacity for integrating environmental sustainability across all curricular, co-curricular, and operational aspects ...
New England Synod Takes the Challenge (2013)
At the New England 2013 Assembly, June 7-9, voters agreed to urge the restraint of hydraulic fracturing and request an ...
Northwestern Minnesota Synod Commits to Climate Care!
Congratulations to another synod making the commitment to Care for Creation! On June 3rd, the Northwestern Minnesota synod's assembly voted ...
MN Area Synod Passes Climate Change Resolution
Download the Resolution & Rationale they used to discuss the issues behind the considerations. What do we do to make sure our ...
Upper Susquehanna Synod Assembly Lutherans Call for Repeal of “Fracking Loopholes” (2014)
On the recommendation of a bipartisan task group, the Upper Susquehanna Synod Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ...
Caring for Creation: An Environmental Workshop for People of Faith (Erie, PA Synod Workshop 2014)
Lutherans Restoring Creation of the Northwest Pennsylvania Synod held a workshop (Caring for Creation: An Environmental Workshop for People of ...
Retreat in S. Carolina – November 2019
Communion with Creation at the beautiful Atlantic coastline with other stewards of God’s good creation. Be empowered for creation care ...
New England Synod’s Bishop Hazelwood Connects with Catholics over Climate (and other) Changes
On the heels of the Pope's Encyclical encouraging caring for our common home, two religious leaders in New England came ...
Youth Gather and We All Grow!
Back in the summer of 2018 hundreds of youth and group leaders visited our Lutherans Restoring Creation space in the ...
Edmonds Lutheran Church is Going Solar
Edmonds, WA - Edmonds Lutheran Church (ELC) installed a solar photovoltaic system to generate renewable energy for their facility in mid- February ...
Working their Beliefs into the Public Sphere
On Earth Day 2016, a small group of people of faith visited Massachusetts' Senator Ed Markey's office in Boston to ...
An Earth Day Action with Results:
*On June 28, 2017 there was a follow-up to this meeting with Sen. Elizabeth Warren - read here* Working their ...
Religious Community Sends Letter to Trump Transition Team
A coalition of 32 faith organizations, including the ELCA, sent a letter on January 11 to President-elect Donald Trump's transition ...
Lutherans Weigh in on PA Clean Power Plan
Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in Pennsylvania trained and turned out Lutherans to testify at hearings on the Pennsylvania Clean Power Plan in Fall ...
Evangelical Lutheran leaders argue for Ohio energy efficiency and renewable energy
The president of a major Lutheran seminary and one of the three bishops overseeing the 550 Ohio congregations of the ...
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 ...
Creation Care: Faith to Action May 19th, 2018
MAY 19th, 8-12 at the Lutheran Outdoor Ministries Center Come and join us at Lutheran Outdoor Ministries Center for a day ...
Cynthia Moe-Lobeda & Scott Thalacker on Access Utah
Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, a professor of Christian ethics, is the author of the 2013 book, Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic ...
“We Speak from a Sacred Core” – Reflections on an Advocacy Training
Reflections on Attending Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light Advocacy Training, August 26, 2015 by Pastor Inge Williams, Friedens Lutheran Church, Shartlesville, Pennsylvania ...
Luther College and Raptor Resource Project Build Banding Station (2017)
A grant from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources allowed Luther College and the Decorah Raptor Resource Project to build ...
Central States Synod Assembly Resolution Calls for “Green Action” (2017)
At the 2017 Synod Assembly in Kansas City, voting members adopted a resolution that encourages "its leaders and congregations to ...
Garden Table in Washington State
Bill Hanawalt and his wife, Kathy, grow more tomatoes than they could ever eat. Kathy dreamed of starting up a ...
Central States Synod Gather Again & Again!
From idea to team to movement: Central States Green Team Central States Synod voted to become a Lutherans Restoring Creation ...
