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Posts Tagged: earth care congregations
January 23, 2015
This page is a collection of stories that have been printed on this blog about our PCUSA certified Earth Care Congregations and other earth-caring congregations. You can also find these stories through clicking various categories on the right sidebar menu (for instance if you are looking for “food” or “climate” or “education” stories about churches)…. Read more »
January 22, 2015
gathering together at the PEC Conference at Montreat September 15-18, 2015 at Montreat Conference Center, Presbyterians for Earth Care is offering a conference “Down-to-Earth Advocacy and Action.” PHP’s Environmental Ministries is considering this conference the 2015 Summit for Earth Care Congregations, hoping earth care teams can send representation to the PEC conference in order to… Read more »
August 27, 2014
Celebrating 5th Year PCUSA Certified Earth Care Congregations! Bardstown Road Presbyterian Church in Louisville, KY is one of the PCUSA certified Earth Care Congregations which is now pursuing the dual certification with GreenFaith. Their enrollment into the GreenFaith sustainable congregation program both recertifies the congregation with PCUSA Earth Care Congregations and gives them room… Read more »
August 22, 2014
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… Read more »
August 13, 2014
Celebrating 5th Year PCUSA Certified Earth Care Congregations! A Devotion in Motion, “The Life-Giving Water” by Abby Kameny, Magdalen Davidson, Allison Davidson Drawing members from around the Triangle region of North Carolina, The Church of Reconciliation in Chapel Hill’s Earth Care Committee deepens the faith life of its members and engages in a multitude… Read more »
August 11, 2014
Celebrating 5th Year PCUSA Certified Earth Care Congregations! “Our faith tradition teaches us that the earth and all creation are God’s, and that God calls us to be careful, humble stewards of this earth, to protect and restore it for it’s own sake, and for the future use and enjoyment of the human family, ”… Read more »
August 8, 2014
Celebrating 5th Year PCUSA Certified Earth Care Congregations! In rural Virginia, a nearly 30 year old church with around 230 members, St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Kilmarnock, VA, enters its 5th year of being certified by the PCUSA Earth Care Congregation programs. Starting a number of creation care efforts before the certification program was… Read more »
August 1, 2014
Celebrating 5th Year PCUSA Certified Earth Care Congregations! children’s time on earth care at North Como Knox Presbyterian Church North Como Presbyterian Church, Roseville, MN (now merging with Knox Presbyterian Church) has been an Earth Care Congregation since the beginning of the certification program in 2010. Starting their activities even prior to that, they… Read more »
July 31, 2014
PC(USA) celebrates 5 years of Earth Care Congregations program, 14 churches honored Presbyterian News Service Bethany Daily LOUISVILLE [EXCERPTS follow, click for the full article here] Five years after it began, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Earth Care Congregations program is celebrating 14 churches that have demonstrated a commitment to caring for God’s creation. To be… Read more »
June 26, 2014
Birthday Cake and Singing for Earth Care Congregations at PEC Lunch, June 2014 This summer, 2014, marks the 5th year of certification for 13 of PCUSA’s certified Earth Care Congregations. For five years, these churches have been growing ever deeper in their ministry and witness and for five years, the PCUSA Earth Care Congregation… Read more »