Friends, thank you all so much for your continued engagement with our process, considering whether or not UCG is called to become a Creation Care, Climate Justice Congregation (a designation through our denomination, the United Church of Christ). Over the past seven months we have posed questions and solicited responses, had great discussions and gathered your thoughts which are now compiled and incorporated into the statement you can read below.
Our ultimate goal is to have us incorporate care for all of creation into our spiritual lives, and the life of our church. We hope you will engage our proposed statement. You can make comments that will be taken into consideration by our C3J Task Force, then presented to Church Council. And we hope you can join us on Sunday, April 23 at 10:30 am for a Seminar discussion of the statement. We will then make final edits before going to Church Council for final discussion and approval, and then to the congregation at our May meeting for your vote to either approve or deny our proposal.
Here is a link to the proposed covenant from the Creation Care/Climate Justice Task Force.
You may make comments within the document, or email Jim Harper (jimwharper@icloud.com). Please make your comments by April 12.