Faith Climate Action Week Organizer Kits are evergreen and can be used at any time of the year.
2022
“Sacred Trust: Our children’s right to a livable future.” We examine our responsibility to safeguard our Earth for future generations, and how our faiths call us to respond with bold and just solutions to climate change.
The kit is evergreen with great faith-based discussion materials, a Youth and Children Blessing, and suggested activities for you and your congregation that can be used at any time of year!
Our children and grandchildren will bear the brunt of climate change, and their voices have an outsized impact in the halls of power when they speak about how climate change affects their future. IPL invites you to lean into this sobering and hopeful paradox and work alongside the youth in your congregation or community to speak up for their rights to a stable climate. 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.
There are suggestions and resources for how to get engaged in supporting local climate justice action, and a call for art created by youth and children that envisions a positive future for our Earth through the #ImagineIPL campaign. Additionally, you will find faith-based discussion materials, suggested short films, and a Youth and Children Blessing ceremony.
In the kit:
- Organizer’s instructions
- Sacred Trust Guide – learn about our children’s moral and legal rights to a livable climate, intergenerational climate justice, plus suggestions for action for congregations and individuals
- Youth and Children Blessing Ceremony
- Postcards to collect Voter pledges
- Climate change fact sheet
Screen the film Youth V Gov as part of your activities.
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.
