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    • Ministry Partners
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    • Hunger Table
    • Creation Care Team
    • Behold! The New Has Come
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    • Constitution Resources
    • Stewardship Resources
    • Congregation Forms
    • Guidance for Policies
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Caring for God's Creation

Join a Creation Care Team

A Creation Care Team unites parishioners dedicated to caring for creation through activities like educational sessions, composting, energy audits, and more—guided by faith and stewardship to protect God's beautiful earth.

Our Mission

Inspired by Christ, we promote care for God's creation through education, advocacy, and supporting our congregations' stewardship efforts.

We Are Here to Help

Contact us for support in planning, education, or navigating energy incentives to enhance your church's sustainability.

Contact Us

Events

EcoFaith Summit 2026

Join us for the EcoFaith Summit 2026—bringing faith communities together to care for our planet. Experience inspiring talks, interactive sessions, children’s activities, and more to inspire action for environmental justice.

Register for EcoFaith 2026

Environmental Stewardship Resources

Faith & Science Conversations

A place where Christian faith and science come together. 

Podcast website

EcoFaith Insights

An online publication of the EcoFaith Network NE-MN Synod with Saint Paul Area Synod Care of Creation. 

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EarthCare Devotions

Spring 2023 Devotional Videos

Videos

Healing Creation Movement

A grassroots movement promoting care for creation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. We accomplish this by cultivating a community of dedicated stewards of earth and neighbor who proclaim God’s promise of hope and healing for all.  Lutherans Restoring Creation is a grassroots movement of Lutherans, driven by laity, pastors, lay professionals, synodical leadership, and others who hold positions in the ELCA and its institutions.

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Climate Action Network MN

works in partnership with faith and spiritual communities to build transformative power and bring the lights of people’s unique gifts to addressing the climate crisis.  We grow the climate movement in Minnesota by empowering individuals and communities across the state to take action that is authentic, effective, and energizing in their context. Join us in building a powerful social movement for climate and environmental justice.

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Justice for Creation

Educates, equips, and mobilizes Christian individuals, congregations,  denominations, and communions to protect, restore, and rightly share God's creation.

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Climate Action Citizens

At Citizens’ Climate Lobby, we’re committed to building the political will for the climate solutions we all need. As empowered citizens, we talk with neighbors, friends, and local officials about how national climate action can help ensure a healthy future while strengthening the American economy.

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Cultivate Creation Care Together

Start Your Creation Care Team

Start Your Creation Care Team

Start Your Creation Care Team

  • Gather some friends
  • Get Pastoral endorsement
  • Research the ELCA social statement on creation care
  • Become an officially recognized group by presenting to your council
  • Craft a mission statement
  • Brainstorm/set reasonable goals
  • Set a meeting schedule
  • Issue news releases
  • Pray!
  • Plan one event in the first 6 months
  • Embrace energy efficiencies
  • Reduce, reuse, recycle
  • Engage in advocacy

Easy Steps to Action

Start Your Creation Care Team

Start Your Creation Care Team

  • Plan an adult ed opportunity on environmental stewardship.
  • Review your church utility bill.
  • Meet with your property committee to plan an energy audit.
  • Set a goal for reduction in energy bill and how you will get there.
  • Establish a "no water bottles" campaign.
  • Start a composting/organics program.
  • Volunteer to wash dishes instead of using disposables.
  • Plan a letter writing campaign.
  • Host a Creation Care Book Study!

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