Our Creation Care ministry reflects our belief that caring for the earth is an act of worship, justice, and stewardship. |
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Halloween, community, intergenerational fun - at this year's Trunk or Treat, we reduced the burden of packaging waste that the environment usually bears for us.
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The CC ministry had a table at the “Earth Care at Your House of Worship” conference on November 1. This was St. B's first time to participate with Tennessee Interfaith Power & Light (see below). With over 100 attendees and exhibitors, Kristen Stewart and Jim Pichert represented St. B’s.
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Rev. Ed will lead an outdoor morning prayer service on Monday, November 24. The service will start at 6:30 a.m. and run approximately 35 minutes. Gather with us at the Bell to express our gratitude to God outdoors! Feel free to bring your breakfast and stick around afterward for fellowship.
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CC admin and/or research tasks: Doable from home (computer/phone) on your flexible schedule, approx. 1-2 hours/week, or as you can. Contact Gretchen.
Waste management: Staff the bussing station at upcoming events. Here is the sign-up sheet.
Tend the Weed Wrangle plot: Contact Jim Pichert.
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| Tennessee Interfaith Power & Light |
Tennessee Interfaith Power & Light is the state affiliate of an interreligious network of faith communities working across the United States, offering a spiritual response to climate change. Numerous congregations in Nashville participate, including two other Episcopal parishes in our diocese.
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The Episcopal Church has an official Creation Care ministry and sends out periodic newsletters (check out past issues or sign up here). The ministry is spearheaded by the Rev. Melanie Mullen, TEC's Director of Reconciliation, Justice, and Creation Care.
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Keep your pumpkins and decorative gourds out of the landfill! The simplest thing to do is to compost your carved jack-o-lantern. We've put together several other ideas here for all the gourds, dried corn, and pumpkins you may be using to decorate this season.
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Read The Episcopal Church’s “Covenant for the Care of Creation.” This document outlines our denomination’s commitment to practice loving formation, liberating advocacy, and life-giving conservation as individuals, congregations, ministries, and dioceses.
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| Pumpkins aren’t mentioned directly in the Bible, but gourds are!
Scripture
“The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.... One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs and found a wild vine and picked as many of its gourds as his garment could hold. When he returned, he cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.”
—1 Kings 6:18; 2 Kings 4:39, NIV
Prayer
From The Episcopal Church’s Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music:
“Holy God, your mercy is over all your works, and in the web of life each creature has its role and place. We praise you for ocelot and owl, cactus and kelp, lichen and whale; we honor you for whirlwind and lava, tide and topsoil, cliff and marsh. Give us hearts and minds eager to care for your planet, humility to recognize all creatures as your beloved ones, justice to share the resources of the earth with all its inhabitants, and love not limited by our ignorance.
This we pray in the name of Jesus, who unifies what is far off and what is near, and in whom, by grace and the working of your Holy Spirit, all things hold together. Amen.”
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