2021
Sacred Ground: Cultivating Connections Between Our Faith, Our Food, and the Climate. We examine how our food systems contribute to injustice and to climate change, and how our faiths call us to respond through practical solutions.
The kit is evergreen with great faith-based discussion materials, a Garden Blessing, and
suggested activities for you and your congregation that can be used at any time of year!
Thanks to all who joined Interfaith Power & Light’s annual premier week of worship and action focused on climate – Faith Climate Action Week, April 16-25, 2021.
How we grow our food largely determines how we treat the world, and one another. Dig in to a discussion with your congregation on the connection between our faith, our food practices, climate change, and environmental justice. Make it a focus of your Earth Day worship services and be part of the solution with the suggested actions in the organizer’s kit.
In the kit:
- Organizer’s instructions
- Sacred Ground Guide – learn how healthy soil can help solve the climate crisis and support food justice, plus suggestions for action for congregations and individuals
- Garden Blessing Ceremony
- Postcards to the Secretary of Agriculture and a pre-addressed envelope to mail them to IPL
- Links to the nationwide Climate Prayer, with more online worship resources
- Climate change fact sheet
- Option: Purchase a dvd – “Kiss the Ground”, an important film on how farming for Creation can help solve the climate crisis, plus a free screening kit with faith-based discussion questions NEW discounted price of $19.95!
2020
There are just a few printed “evergreen” kits left from 2020.
The 2020 theme of Faith Climate Action Week, “Love Made Visible” encouraged congregations to plan acts of Sacred Activism to protect the people we love and care about who are most affected by climate change. The kit includes a Sacred Activism Guide on how and why people of faith an conscience engage in advocacy including several suggested challenges, a Sacred Activism art guide, “For Love of Trees” a special interfaith tree planting blessing and ceremony, Faith Climate Voter Pledge cards to collect pledges from your congregation to vote with the climate in mind and stickers for those who pledge, and more!
This must-have kit accompanies Interfaith Power & Light’s 2020 Faith Climate Action Week around Earth Day. It includes everything needed to run a successful climate activity with your faith community. The kit is “evergreen” and can be used any time during 2020.
It includes:
- Organizer’s instructions
- Sacred Activism Guide
- Sacred Activism Art Guide
- Faith Climate Voter Pledge cards (100)
- Faith Climate Voter Pledge stickers to give to those who pledge (48)
- “For Love of Trees” tree planting ceremony and blessing activity
- Links to the nationwide climate prayer, with more online prayers and blessings
- IPL global warming fact sheet
- Sign up sheet for IPL newsletter
It takes about 10 days for your kit to arrive by priority mail. Everything is slower because of COVID-19. Make sure to order them in advance to arrive in time for your events.