Earth Day Sunday 2009: Celebrating and Caring for God's Creation

At the 202nd General Assembly in 1990 and again during the 218th General Assembly (2008), the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) recognized and accepted the responsibility of restoring creation as a central concern of the church to be incorporated into its life and mission at every level.

The church has many powerful reasons for this engagement:

• God’s work in creation is too wonderful, too ancient, too beautiful and too good to be desecrated.  Restoring creation is God’s own work in our time, in which God comes both to judge and to restore. 
• The Creator-Redeemer calls faithful people to become engaged with God in keeping and healing the creation, human and non-human. 
• In this critical time God’s new doing may be discerned as a call to earth-keeping, to justice and to community.

We invite you to embrace this ministry and celebrate Earth Day Sunday, April 19, by using the resources by the National Council of Churches . The resources include sermon starters, youth activities, a group study guide and a bulletin insert.

For more Earth Day information, visit the Peacemaking Worship Resources page.

Earth Day Archives

Use the links below for materials to examine past Earth Day themes with your congregation.

• 2008 - The Poverty of Global Climate Change
• 2007 - Our Daily Bread
• 2006 - Katrina and Environmental Ministries
• 2005 - Sacred Oceans and Seas

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