Help your church be a green beacon in your community
Our Churches Project Officer, Melanie Nazareth, has some ideas
In the last Green Christian magazine I wrote about how the Green Christian Churches Project was putting together a bank of actions and ideas that your church can use to engage your local community in the work of safeguarding creation, from banners to bell ringing and beyond. We have started with a list of ten actions that will help your church be a green beacon for your community.
We also have a second list. When we were thinking about churches being being at the centre of creation care in their communities, we began to think that this might need to go alongside, or perhaps even be preceded by, encouraging our church communities to engage with the climate and nature crisis and to understand and respond in love. Our second list contains ten ideas to help you do this.
You can find the two lists here (ideas to speak out in your local community) and here (ideas to engage your church community). Think of them as your starters for ten – corny I know, but it’s because I hope you won’t stop there. We are called to be salt and light in this world, we need to keep that light shining and that salt salty.
So when your lamps are lit and you have salt in your shakers, we have one more action for you to take. Form a climate concern team within your local deanery or circuit (or whatever it is that your denomination calls the geographical cluster) and have creation care as an agenda item every meeting, even if it is only a few quick notices about what you’ve been doing and upcoming events locally and nationally. Creation care is a mark of our mission.
Melanie Nazareth is Green Christian’s Churches Project Officer
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