Eco-Journey
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Eco-Journey is the blog of the Environmental Ministries Office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). It will include a wide array of environmental topics: upcoming environmental events, links to interesting articles and studies, information on environmental advocacy, eco-theology topics, and success stories from churches that are going “green.”
Author Rebecca Barnes-Davies is the Associate for Environmental Ministries at the PC(USA). She recently graduated from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary with a M.Div. and Master of Arts in Religion (MAR) dual degree.
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New Children's Curriculum Coming Soon
"God’s Creation, Our Health: Taking Action Together" Will Connect Faith and Eco-Justice
PC(USA) Environmental Ministries and the Office of Child Advocacy are partnering to create a new a 4-session curriculum to engage older elementary children in discipleship. God’s Creation, Our Health: Taking Action Together, will be released in the fall of 2011.
The resource will use a children’s advocacy group, CAMBIALO in La Oroya, Peru, as an example of how children can work as advocates for themselves in the field of eco-justice. Through a virtual partnership with peers in Peru, children will:
- Explore what our faith has to say about environmental stewardship
- Speak out about environmental contamination and what it does to children’s health
- Learn how to be advocates for children’s rights and environmental justice
- Take action to protect God’s creation and children’s health
Learn more about CAMBIALO, a project of the Joining Hands Network in La Oroya, Peru, through a video created by the children of CAMBIALO and produced by Mission co-worker Jed Koball.
La Oroya is one of the ten most polluted places on earth, and 97% of children in La Oroya have toxic levels of lead in their blood, due to contamination from the American-owned Doe Run smelter. Through CAMBIALO, the children of La Oroya are learning how to speak out to protect their health and the environment. Stay tuned for more information on the curriculum, which will be available online in the fall.
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Dear Pamela, Have you heard about the work that PCUSA mission coworkers Daniel and Elizabeth Turk are doing in Madagascar. A link to their work can be found at http://gamc.pcusa.org/give/E200418/. I am checking around for other reforestation projects and would be happy to continue the conversation further if you'd like to contact me at 502-569-5624. Would be fabulous to have Harvey Browne take up this kind of project.
by Rebecca Barnes-Davies
January 20, 2012
What can you tell me about International Year of the Forest and the "Carbon Covenant"- Ghana reforestation project. What other reforestation projects does PC(USA) have going? Looking for such a project for Harvey Browne's Green Team. Thanks, Pam
by Pamela Mounce Glaze
October 13, 2011