Build Thriving Congregations
You bring relevancy, energy, and enthusiasm to your congregation as you live out your faith. Help your congregation thrive by protecting and healing the earth and standing with and for marginalized people.
Explore the tools and resources below to see how you can engage your congregation in creation care programs that center justice and empower youth, congregants, and communities through community engagement, advocacy, and voting efforts.
Getting Started
Each congregation is unique and will find different ways to engage with creation care. Below is a sample plan of simple actions to get you and your congregation started. See a full list of actions to build thriving congregations below.
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Organize a meeting to discuss your congregation’s involvement in the One Home One Future campaign and join the campaign to receive your free banner.
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When your banner arrives, host a creation care event where you and your congregation hangs the banner, takes photos, and shares the story with the campaign.
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Identify next steps for your congregation’s creation care journey. This may include joining your denomination’s creation care program or measuring your energy impact.
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Celebrate your successes with your congregation, denomination, and wider community through newsletters and social media, inviting other houses of worship in your area to join the One Home One Future campaign.
Ways to Engage
Below are actions you and your community can take to build a thriving congregation and care for creation. Each action page has all of the resources, information, guides, videos, books, and more to guide your work. You can browse all of the One Home One Future tools and opportunities in the Resource Hub.
