January 23 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am
We’re meeting today to discuss policy and legislative issues.
Tag Archives: caring for creation
Ivy Pull @ Minto Brown Park
January 24 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am
Join the No-Ivy League
Salem’s No-Ivy League launches 2026 with a January 24 event from 9-11 a.m. at Minto-Brown Island Park. This event is a training opportunity, plus a new volunteer orientation for ivy removal.
Register online through SOLVE.
Deanie Anderson
Together Things Happen
We came together as faith groups to see if we could do more collectively than individually — and we found out we could! It has been inspiring to sit with people of other faiths and hear their creation stories and realize that their stories were so like our own. It has been eye-opening, to say the least.
The last couple of months have been busy talking with senators and representatives, encouraging them to support the environment. Spending time with people who are as passionate about change as us has given us such a strong sense of purpose and resolve.
The problems the world is facing in climate change and in climate resilience are larger than any one group can handle on their own and we are suffering from terminal hubris if we think we can, but together we can make an impact.
If you are interested in joining us on our adventure, contact peachsloan918@gmail.com. Together we can make a difference that will impact generations.
Ecumenical Decade of Climate Justice
JOIN US!
The World Council of Churches has proclaimed the Ecumenical Decade of Climate Justice (2025-2034). It is a bold invitation from the World Council of Churches and ecumenical partners worldwide to undertake a pilgrimage of repentance, renewal, and action to confront the climate emergency with courage, hope, and love.
Link to WCC brochure:
Our Vision for 2034
By the close of this Decade, we envision:
• Churches Leading by Example: Eco-sanctuaries,
climate-centred worship, and pensions invested in life
• Policy Breakthroughs: Ecocide recognized as a crime, fossil fuel phase-out underway, climate finance, justice, and reparations advanced
• Resilient Communities: Indigenous, youth, women,
and frontline communities shaping solutions
• An Economy of Life: Alternatives to extractive
capitalism, rooted in equity, justice, and sustainability
How We Will Journey
The Decade will move forward through six concrete pathways:
1. Transform Theology and Worship – eco-theologies,
creation liturgies, and spiritual disciplines.
2. Promote Holistic Analysis – connecting climate with
justice, economics, race, and gender
3. Equip Faith Communities – toolkits, trainings, and
climate chaplains
4. Mobilize Collective Action – pilgrimages, days of
action, and global campaigns
5. Advocate for Systemic Change – prophetic witness in
courts, policies, and public spaces
6. Invest in Grassroots Solutions – funding local
adaptation, biodiversity protection, and renewable energy
Who Is Involved
This is a whole-church, whole-world journey:
- WCC member churches and global ecumenical partners
leading locally and globally. - Regional and national ecumenical bodies, contextualizing action.
- Denominations and seminaries shaping theology and
discipleship. - Interfaith partners joining in shared action.
- Youth, women, Indigenous peoples, migrants, and
emerging leaders at the heart of vision and leadership in WCC
member churches leading locally and globally
Join us!
Season of Creation Guide
On June 5, World Environment Day, the Season of Creation 2024 Celebration Guide was officially launched. The Laudato Si movement organized an ecumenical service of reflection and prayer held in preparation for the Season of Creation, which takes place from September 1st (the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation and The beginning of Eastern Orthodox liturgical year) to October 4th (the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi). The theme is “To hope and act with Creation”. DOWNLOAD THE GUIDE BELOW!
Global faith campaign for climate justice launched by World Council of Churches
Commission on Climate Justice and Sustainable Development
The World Council of Churches created the Commission on Climate Justice and Sustainable Development (CCJSD) to address the climate crisis and promote efforts to achieve the UN’s sustainable development goals. The WCC is an ecumenical fellowship of 352 churches from more than 120 countries, representing over 580 million Christians worldwide. WCC members include most of the world’s Orthodox churches, scores of Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and Reformed churches, and many United and Independent churches.
The Commission serves as a platform for faith-rooted and evidence-based actions responding to the impacts and roots of the intertwined ecological and economic emergencies. The commission mobilizes member churches to take urgent, effective, and holistic actions to respond to the climate emergency and broader economic and ecological crises in collaboration with other like-minded actors. The commission calls attention to gaps and challenges in addressing issues of ecological and economic injustice — and proposes concerted, effective, and timely action by member churches and ecumenical partners in their communities, countries, and
internationally.
The Commission operates through several working groups: Climate Justice; Economy of Life; Creation and Biodiversity Justice; Land, Water and Food Justice; and Ecumenical Diakonia and the Sustainable Development Goals. Each working group has commenced its work and is guided by an annual action plan. The Land, Water, and Food Justice working group, e.g., will be convening a global consultation on 29 May in Geneva to address critical interlinkages between land, water, and food security through a rights-based approach. To register, click https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvdu2spjwoHtdyAQPdMuV6lco5hBNoBClm#/registration. For more information, visit https://oikoumene.org/events/wcc-consultation-on-interconnected-challenges-of-land-water-and-food
Share your best practices to protect the environment.
Does your faith community use solar power, have a bioswale or a pollinator garden, use water conserving landscaping, employ LED lighting, provide wildlife habitat?
Let everyone know what you do to care for Creation!
Caring for creation
What does your faith community do to care for creation?
Share your practices!
A bioswale? Solar panels? A wildlife habitat? A pollinator garden? LED lighting? Water conserving landscaping?