Jul 1, 2020 | Green Team, Uncategorized
“God’s Work. Our Hands.” —Evangelical Lutheran Church in America The sacredness of creation crosses many faith traditions. In the Lutheran church, the ELCA, through its 1993 Statement on Environment, calls us to “model God’s justice by striving to embody four...
Jun 11, 2020 | Green Team, Uncategorized
“…whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all. For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.”Mark 10:43 -45 This month we are devoting our...
May 9, 2020 | Green Team, Uncategorized
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Since 1970, when over 20 million Americans took to the streets calling for systemic change in how we relate to our environment, we are reminded each April 22 of our inseparable interconnectedness to nature, and the...
Apr 15, 2020 | Green Team, Uncategorized
Admittedly, this article differs from the one I may have written merely a few weeks ago. In a time that so rapidly has turned the former reality we all knew on its head, how do we collect our thoughts and begin to make sense of the new reality in which we find...
Mar 2, 2020 | Green Team, Uncategorized
By awesome deeds you answer us with deliverance, O God of our salvation; you are the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.” —Psalm 65:5 The Sunday school classes have been hard at work in January, making up-cycled birdfeeders and birdhouses from...
Feb 3, 2020 | Green Team, Uncategorized
“…as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.” —Matthew 13:23 We are thankful to all of the Committees and Staff who...
