Education

Education Resources

This page offers a sample of earth care programs, curriculum, and experiences for Christian education as well as best practices and helpful hints to “try this at (your) home (church)!” 

Children

• God’s Creation: Our Health, Taking Action Together (for older elementary)
• Just Eating? Practicing Our Faith at the Table (middle school version). Hard copy version, click here.
• Vacation Bible School from Synod projects: Living Waters for the World, and Solar Under the Sun
• To peruse an ecumenical review of available curriculum, click here.
• 5 session VBS or children’s class by New Community Project, available here.

Youth

•   Faith Questions: God’s Creation leader’s guide

Young Adults

•  Eco-Stewards program

Adults

• Being Reformed: Stewardship of Creation participant book and leader’s guide
• Lent 4.5
• Season of Creation (worship and education resources)
• Northwest Earth Institute’s Seeing Systems: Peace, Justice and Sustainability

Books and Studies

From Westminster John Knox Press and Thoughtful Christian:

Books

• 50 Ways to Help Save the Earth – 2009

• Darwin, Divinity, and the Dance of the Cosmos – 2007

• Inhabiting Eden: Christians, The Bible, and The Ecological Crisis – 2013

• Renewing The Face Of The Earth: A Theological and Pastoral Response to Climate Change – 2008

Downloadable Studies

• The Global Study Pack (6 sessions – all available for individual purchase as well), includes:
  Air Pollution: Inside and Out
  A Return to Recycling
  Land: Conservation and Renewal
  Being Green at Home
  Being Green in Daily Life
  Water: Precious Gift and Endangered Resource

• An Inconvenient Truth – 2007

• Serve, Not Rule – 2014

• What the Bible Says About Ecology – 2012

• What Would Jesus Drive? – 2006

• Genesis and the Goodness of Creation – 2011

Webinars

• Many webinar recordings on a whole host of topics are available through the Presbyterian Hunger Program webinar page.
• November, 2014 “Creation Care: Basic Bible” webinar with Bill Brown and Trisha Tull, recorded on the PHP youtube channel.
• Monday May 12, 2014: “Earth Care in Christian Education” Webinar. At minute 3, Daisy Rhau begins the children’s presentation. At 17:20, Erin Pratt begins the youth presentation. At 33 minutes, Vickie Machado goes over the Eco-Stewards program. At 40:50, William Seaman explains the adult education initiatives at his church.
• From the May webinar, the overall powerpoint for Earth Care in Christian Education, click here.
• For the prezi on children and Hunter Presbyterian Church by Daisy Rhau, click here.
• For the prezi on youth and St. Luke Presbyterian Church by Erin Pratt, click here.
• For the prezi on young adult Eco-Stewards by Vickie Machado, click here.
• For the powerpoint presentation on adult education at Montreat Presbyterian Church by William Seaman, click here.

Mission Trips

• Project Homecoming (New Orleans)
• Goodness Grows (food justice)
• Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center
• International hunger/poverty networks with Presbyterian Hunger Program and Joining Hands
• Rebuilding Appalachia (Housing Development Alliance or SWAP, and connect with mountain top removal organizations in the area.)