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Your Congregation| Caring for All Creation | On the Road
On the Road
Driving is
the most creation-impactful activity in which
individuals engage.*
Our
congregation can model other ways of “getting there”
that can bless creation (including ourselves).
(Read about University Baptist Church's On the Road event)
The On the Road portion of the Caring for All Creation series is built around a Drive-Less Sunday, a special worship service, and a personal action pledge requested from each member of a congregation.
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Earth Ministry provides tools for organizing a "Drive-Less Sunday" event and for calculating congregants' cumulative, positive environmental impacts on this day. Earth Ministry will also help to announce these impacts to others in the broader community (e.g., through this web site and our "mini-journal").
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Earth Ministry provides Drive-Less Sunday worship resources to assist congregations in creating a celebratory, meaningful worship experience. These resources include prayers, sermon aids, suggested hymns, and more.
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Earth Ministry provides "personal action pledge cards" -- a pledge that congregants complete as a way of continuing to live out the meaning of Car-Free Sunday. Congregants can commit to actions such as making one less car trip a week, changing their commuting habits, or making sure that their next vehicle one is more fuel efficient.
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Earth Ministry provides related children's educational resources and an adult education curriculum: The Cry of Creation. This is an interfaith study guide on global warming prepared for the Interfaith Climate and Energy Campaign, a collaborative effort of the National Council of Churches in Christ and The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life.
To receive an On the Road organizer's kit, please contact us at (206) 632-2426 or e-mail emoffice@erthministry.org.
Check out our Drive-Less Sunday page to see which congregations are participating in the Caring for All Creation: On the Road program in 2004.
* From The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices, by Michael Brower and Warren Leon.