Eco-Ministry

Message from our Eco-Minister

April is Earth Month! How is your congregation exploring its relationship with God’s good earth? Are you deepening your awareness of how environmental concerns are discipleship issues? I’m happy to highlight some resources and ideas for your ministry and congregational life for this month and beyond:

Worship Resources & Sunday School Resources
Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle
Consider the Birds

Message from our Eco-Minister

As we have crossed the threshold into 2024, I know many of us have spent some time reflecting on the coming year and setting intentions. For those of you who preach, teach, lead Bible study, or simply read the Bible for your own devotions, I would like to invite you to consider how you can more regularly bring an ecological lens to your interpretation of scripture. Creation care and ecojustice can fit into our sermons on a more regular basis, not just on special focus Sundays.

Message from our Eco-Minister

This can be a tough time of year with longer nights and a mono-chromatic landscape. To counter this darkness, Western secular culture gears up with festive activities, lights, and consumerism. What if, rather than buying all the presents, attending all the concerts, getting the new outfits, and feasting for almost a month straight, we followed the cues of nature to slow down and embrace dormancy, stillness, darkness, and simplicity? What if we paid attention to Chicadees, sunrises, bare branches, ice and snow to see what they have to teach us about incarnation? How can they help bring us into connection with Christ, firstborn of all creation? 

As you reflect on Advent and Christmas, either for yourself or for preaching or leading worship, here are some links to resources that help to bring alive God’s incarnate presence in all creation. Blessings and peace to you all this season of darkness and light. 

Message from our Eco-Minister

A Word from Wendy, Our Eco-Minister

• Stories from our churches - Waterloo North Mennonite Church
  
• Event Announcement - Climate Pollinators Webinar Series
• Connecting creation care groups

Message from our Eco-Minister

As the glorious days of August move toward September, we sense transitions in the air – sunsets are happening earlier, vacations are wrapping up, garden harvests are coming in, and thoughts are turning toward church programs resuming and students returning to school. Here are two eco-ministry items to have on your radar for September.
 
Climate Strike - On September 15^th, another Global Climate Strike is in the works.
 
Season of Creation
On September 1^st, we enter into an ecumenical liturgical season called The Season of Creation.

Message from our Eco-Minister

The Rooted and Grounded Conference at AMBS September 28-30.
 
The Season of Creation is coming up! September 1st – October 4th