Earth Guardians: A New Creation Care VBS!
“Let the little children come unto me.” (Matthew 19:14) As we strive to educate ourselves about how to fulfil our role as stewards (or servants!) of creation, we need to engage our youngest children in this work as well. Why not hold a creation care-themed Vacation Bible School (VBS)? We are happy to present “Earth […]
Creation Care Catechism
This Creation Care Catechism is an excellent resource honoring our Christian traditions and forcing us to think about them in a new ecological light. The catechism goes through each line of the Lord’s Prayer, the 10 commandments and the Apostle’s Creed and dissects them with clarity while adding a new perspective on how it relates […]
Soil & Spirit (VBS from South Minneapolis Day Camp)
Check out the great ideas from this mostly virtual VBS program and imagine how they can work in your context! Be sure to share/learn some of the American Sign Language that goes along with each video. Thanks to all the co-sponsoring organizations that made this Day Camp possible – as a resource then and as […]
ELCA World Hunger Offers Vacation Bible School Resources
This vacation Bible school program, “River of Life,” focuses on the importance of water, highlighting how ELCA World Hunger is working with our neighbors around the world on clean-water projects. Download here: VBS_River_of_Life_2021 Visit (click here) ELCA’s World Hunger list of VBS resources with many integrations of Creation Care for All.
Know trash? No trash! Try this youth program!
Put on a youth program about Trash! How well do you know your trash? How can your youth group become more eco-friendly on the congregational level? Lutherans Restoring Creation and Lutheran Community Foundation (now Thrivent Charitable Impact) worked together to provide an exhibit about Trash at the National Youth Gathering. Would you like to host a […]
Eco-Confirmation: Ecological Christianity Through The Sacrament of the Altar
What is the Sacrament of the Altar? It is the true body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ under the bread and wine, instituted by Christ himself for us Christians to eat and to drink. Where is this written? The holy evangelists Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and St. Paul write thus: “In the night […]
Eco-confirmation: Ecological Christianity Through The Sacrament of Baptism
I. What is Baptism? Baptism is not simply plain water. Instead, it is water used according to God’s command and connected with God’s Word. What then is this word of God? Where our Lord Christ says in Matthew 28: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and […]
Eco-confirmation: Ecological Christianity Through The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father in heaven. What is this? With these words God wants to attract us, so that we come to believe that he is truly our Father and we are truly his children, in order that we may ask him boldly and with complete confidence, as loving children ask their loving father. Think! Calling God […]
Eco-confirmation: Ecological Christianity Through The Creed
The 1st Article, on Creation I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. What is this? I believe that God has created me together with all that exists. God has given me and still preserves my body and soul: eyes, ears, and all limbs and senses; reason and all mental faculties. In […]
Eco-confirmation: Ecological Christianity Through The Ten Commandments
The 1st Commandment: You shall have no other gods. What is this? We are to fear, love, and trust God above all things. Think! Read Matthew 5:45. Jesus makes a promise of sun and rain, that this is always around us—good or bad, human or not. How does this promise of needs of life help […]
Eco-confirmation: Ecological Christianity through Luther’s Small Catechism
We marked the 500th anniversary of the Reformation with the occasion of Martin Luther writing his 95 Theses. For those of us living with the Reformation heritage, however, another of his writings has likely been more influential in shaping our identity: his Small Catechism of 1528. The occasion for this handbook was that Luther discovered […]