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Creation Care Network

​Next meeting:  Feb. 1, 2021, 11 am eastern / 10 am central
Mark your calendar for every first Monday.

Zoom link here
phone:  669 900 6833 (ID: 825 451 052)

Facebook Group: Creation Care Network


​Network description:
This is a conversation for anyone working on care for creation - in their dioceses, in their parishes, or in their personal lives. We will share information about ministries, best practices and challenges that we might be having.
June 15, 2020
Dear Friends in Christ,
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We find ourselves in unsettling and tumultuous times where the normal rhythm of our lives has been upended and is being replaced by something new-- ideally something more just, connected, and reflective of God's Kingdom. We are devastated by the global pandemic and the loss of familiarity and comfort that we had enjoyed before. Also, we continue to see brothers and sisters of color harmed by oppressive systems. We join as one voice to demand equality for all in this country, just as we are all equally loved in the eyes of our Most High God.

At the heart of Creation Care is love-- love for every person, plant, animal, and landscape that God made. God exists in all of them. Environmental degradation and climate change disproportionately affect poor people and people of color in the United States and around the world. The lack of access to clean drinking water, clear air, and healthy food (among other things) deny good health to too many.

Environmental work is justice work. We talked at our June meeting about access to local food, and you will find some resources and news related to that topic below. Also, there are events, articles and information specifically related to eco-justice and the racial implications of climate change. We must continue to broaden our understanding of how our work fits into the larger patchwork of racial healing, which is God's vision for humanity.

In peace,

Catherine Duffy
Convener, Province V Creation Care Network

Good News Gardens

​Join the Movement - Plant, Pray, & Proclaim! An invitation of The Episcopal Church Creation Care and Evangelism Departments 
 
As the realities and repercussions of COVID-19 continue to unfold, one area we know will continue to be affected is our food supply.  The issues surrounding food justice are broad and often complex. From the use of land, to the treatment of field workers, to the shipping of goods, to the refilling of our food pantry’s, right down to how we choose the food that goes on our own tables, these are all systems in need of just and proactive responses in the best of times.   
 
So how can we help now? What action can we take, separated as many of us are by stay-home orders?  
 
We believe that one thing that love could do right now is call a community of people with the ability to plant gardens of all sizes and kinds together – from small pots of herbs, to hundreds of acres of corn – in order to share the love of Christ through word and action, food and labor.  Gardens give us an opportunity to be in relationship with our neighbors outside our walls, in the great outdoors, working together for the common good, sharing faith and growing in love.  
 
Visit the new Good News Gardens Website and sign up here to participate in Good News Gardens and plant, pray, and proclaim! Good News Gardens Sign Up Form. 

Network Archives

Jan 2021 notes and recording

​Nov 2020 notes and recording
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Oct 2020 notes and recording

Sept 2020 notes

Aug 2020 notes
​Aug 2020 recording

July 2020 notes - thoughts on Becoming Beloved Community grants?

June 2020 notes - Good News Gardens announcement, reviewed March's information, shared resources
June 15, 2020 - Newsletter

May 2020 notes - focus:  Rogation Days
​May 2020 recording

April 2020 notes - Focus:  Earth Day

March 2020 meeting's recording.  This meeting includes Deep Green Faith by Jerry Cappel
​Slides from March 2020

Feb 2020 notes
Jan 2020 notes
Dec 2019 notes
Nov 2019 notes



Resources

Indiana Black Farmers

Facebook Group:  Agrarian Ministry

Book:  Harvesting Abundance

Book:  
Resurrection Matters by Nurya Love Parish

UP Wild Church

Facebook live every Friday, 6 pm eastern
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Celtic Daily Prayer, Book Two: Farther UP and Farther In has a number of resources for Creation Care prayers

The Ramifications of the Overconsumption of Goods by Our Modern Society
An article by Jacklyn Lenten, Northern Michigan

Reverence and Gratitude as Important Links in the Circle of Love for God, Creation, and All Others
An article by Nancy A. Auer, Northern Michigan

Alan Wight & the Edible City Project​ (Cincinnati)
This video features Cincinnati, Alan Wight and Permaculture - a key movement supporting Care for Creation.  Alan highlights five (5) local Permaculture rock stars in the last half of the interview.

A Quick Quiz
Test your knowledge!  A really interesting quiz about how we can make the biggest impact on the earth.  (It may not be the things that you think of most!)

Coffee Hour Cookbook
Nourishing Renewable Sustainable Vivifying and living into our baptismal vows
​booklet

Honest to God
A conversation with David Rice, Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Traci Blackmon, and hosted by Stephanie Spellers.
Watch YouTube recording.

Creation-based Stations of the Cross

Websites

Big Green

The Ice 10 year challenge
The Paradox of Global Warming and Colder Winters

History of Michigan's Forests

Benefit of Shopping Locally and More Sustainably (page 5)

Reflections on Social Justice for the Season of Advent (year A)

Climate Prayers and Sample Sermons from Interfaith Power and Light.

Composting
Chicago Area

The Episcopal Church Resources

Creation Care Newsletter from The Episcopal Church sign up

Creation Care Pledge

March 2020 newsletter

Summer Solstice (June 20, 2020)

Solstice Prayers (June 20, 2020)
Portions of: Daybreak liturgy for the Summer Solstice

* You are the Lord of this short night and the breaking dawn. Amen. 
* You are our help from one solstice to another, and watch with us throughout the year,
Lord beyond time yet incarnate in time.

Seeing the Sunrise
King of the brightness and of the sun,
You alone know the reason for our being,
be with us every day,
be with us every night,
be with us each night and day,
with us every day and night.
  • from Saltair, translated by Desmond Forristal

Find the full liturgy in Celtic Daily Prayer, Book Two: Farther UP and Farther In

May  the precious light of the Solstice Sun surround and enfold you,
May it fill your heart with the Oneness of Divine Love
that embraces all shadows and frees your Soul to once more
soar among the Heavens. 
 Author unknown

Let Your Light Shine
As the sun rises, Lord, Let your light shine on me. Destroy the darkness about me, Scatter the darkness before me, Disperse the darkness behind me, Dispel the darkness within me. Let your light shine on me. As the sun rises, Lord, Let your light shine on me. The warmth of your Presence, The brightness of your love, The radiance of your joy, The shining of your hope. Let your light shine on me. As the sun rises, Lord, Let your light shine on me. Your light to guide, Your light to lead, Your light to direct, Your light to brighten. Let your light shine on me.
- Found on:  Power Lines: Celtic Prayers About Work by David Adam

"Behold my brothers, the spring has come'
the earth has received the embraces of the sun and
we shall soon see the results of that love!

Every seed has awakened and so has all animal life.
It is through this mysterious power that we too
have our being and we therefore yield to our neighbors,
even our animal neighbors, the same right as 
ourselves, to inhabit this land."

- from the Book "Spiritual Ecology" edited by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.  The Author is: Tatamka Yotanka, Sitting Bull.

Rogation Prayers (May 18-20, 2020)

Rogation Days - celebrated on the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before the Feast of the Ascension (May 18-20, 2020)
What are rogation days? (Glossary of the Episcopal Church)
​Book of Occasional Services Rogation Procession
A sample Order of Service (The Rev. Nikki Seger)
A sample Prayers of the People (The Rev. Nikki Seger)
Rogation Days - Definitions and resources (Heather Barta)
Rogation Days - create your own celebration (Heather Barta)
Rogation Day Bingo Card
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