Celebrating 5th Year PCUSA Certified Earth Care Congregations! Earth care activities at Swarthmore Presbyterian Church (SPC) took root in the passion and commitment of its members. One of the founding members of the Earth Care team works for the EPA and used her knowledge to help frame a recommendation to Session that established environmental stewardship… Read more »
August 25, 2014
Spotlight on Swarthmore Presbyterian Church (Swarthmore, PA)
Celebrating 5th Year PCUSA Certified Earth Care Congregations! Earth care activities at Swarthmore Presbyterian Church (SPC) took root in the passion and commitment of its members. One of the founding members of the Earth Care team works for the EPA and used her knowledge to help frame a recommendation to Session that established environmental stewardship… Read more »
Celebrating 5th Year PCUSA Certified Earth Care Congregations! Garden dedication (photo credit: Alex Mendez, Home News Tribune) Trinity Presbyterian Church in East Brunswick, NJ has about 350 members, is located about 45 minutes from New York City, and integrates care for all God’s earth into all facets of their ministry. When the church was brainstorming… 
In addition to enhancing the well-being of the congregation, securing a better world for future generations, and deepening a sense of Christian discipleship, Earth Care Congregations are finding ways to build up their local communities– and being noticed for it! In February, Forest Lake Church helped create a community garden at a transition residence… 
The PCUSA Earth Care Congregation program welcomes newly certified Earth Care Congregation Nashua Presbyterian Church (NH). When this congregation was chartered as a PCUSA church and built its sanctuary in 1997, they chose to build it back from the road – in the woods. They call themselves “The Church in the Woods.” Because of their… 
McGregor Presbyterian Church in Columbia, SC, in its third year of being a certified Earth Care Congregation, has an ongoing Green Group bulletin board, hosts adult studies and children’s classes on creation care, recycles all kinds of goods and reuses tablecloths and dishes for church meals. they also have fair trade coffee, take care of… 
During this liturgical season that the Church of the Pilgrims calls “Homecoming,” the Sundays between September and the end of November, we are focusing on the theme of Food and Faith. Within the theme of Food and Faith, we are taking on this arc for a focus: humus, exile, and harvest. To fully experience this…