Presbyterian Mission Agency creation care Archives

Preschoolers at Leesburg Presbyterian Church learn the ABCs of composting

Posted April 18th, 2024

Some of the youngest members of an Earth Care Congregation in Leesburg, Virginia are getting an early lesson in Creation Care.

Singing and creating to prepare for totality

Posted April 9th, 2024

From April 6-9, Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, in partnership with the Office of Christian Formation of the Presbyterian Mission Agency, hosted an intergenerational Creation care event culminating in three and a half minutes of the total solar eclipse on Monday.

New hymn written to support One Home One Future, a Creation care campaign joined by the PC(USA)

Posted October 9th, 2023

On the heels of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) joining 28 other faith partners in the One Home One Future campaign, Presbyterian hymnwriter the Rev. Carolyn Winfrey Gillette has written a hymn to support the Creation care campaign.

Presbyterians join 28 partners standing together to care for Creation

Posted October 2nd, 2023

Twenty-nine U.S. denominations and faith organizations have joined together to launch One Home One Future, a multi-faith campaign to strengthen vitality, relevance, and community connection across generations — to care for our shared home — in local congregations nationwide.

Intergenerational Creation care, solar eclipse event planned for Presbyterians in 2024

Posted August 18th, 2023

The Office of Christian Formation of the Presbyterian Mission Agency is partnering with Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, to offer a four-day, three-night intergenerational Creation care event from April 6-9, 2024, culminating with a total solar eclipse.

Ecumenical Advocacy Days plenary looks at making the Bible’s prophetic vision meaningful in today’s world

Posted April 26th, 2023

It fell to a pair of longtime advocates for peace, economic security and Creation care to lay a foundation for turning swords into plowshares during Tuesday’s opening plenary of the Ecumenical Advocacy Days gathering.

Environmental Defense Fund vice president opens Just Creation conference with insights into a beloved psalm

Posted March 17th, 2023

Heather McTeer Toney, Vice President for Community Engagement with the Environmental Defense Fund, opened the Just Creation conference at Columbia Theological Seminary Thursday by diving into Psalm 24:1-2, a favorite passage among those advocating for and working at Creation care: “The Earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world and those who live in it, for [God] has founded it on the seas and established it on the rivers.”

PC(USA) pastor and author discusses ‘Our Angry Eden’ with Presbyterians for Earth Care

Posted October 14th, 2022

The inspiration to write his 2021 book “Our Angry Eden: Faith and Hope on a Hotter, Harsher Planet” came, of all places, during a meeting of National Capital Presbytery, the Rev. Dr. Mark Williams told Presbyterians for Earth Care during a Zoom conversation Thursday.

Presbyterians asked to solidify congressional support for the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

Posted August 2nd, 2022

Monday’s Action Alert from the Office of Public Witness asks Presbyterians to contact their U.S. senator to urge support for the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 ahead of the Senate recess scheduled to begin Aug. 8.

‘GA, Creation Care and You’

Posted July 22nd, 2022

Nearly 90 people tuned in to a Presbyterians for Earth Care webinar Thursday for a look back at what commissioners and advisory delegates to the 225th General Assembly did to care for God’s Creation.