Earth Day is April 22 and can be celebrated on either Sunday, April 20 or 27. Materials are now ready for you to download at www.nccecojustice.org. Materials include sermon starters, bulletin inserts, call to worship, and activities for youth. If you can't celebrate it in April, pick any Sunday during this year and celebrate God's creation because - every day is Earth Day.

As people of faith, we understand our responsibilities to protect the sacred gifts given by God and to heal a world torn by brokenness and human strife. Global warming, like all human-induced environmental degradation, is a sign of this brokenness. The increase in greenhouse gas emissions is causing God's earth to warm to dangerous levels and creating changes to our global climate. The changes we are already experiencing and will continue to experience are threatening the livelihood of those living in poverty who are least able to deal with these changes. We know that industrialized nations contribute more carbon emissions than their less industrialized neighbors. In many ways, global warming represents an unprecedented moral failure on our part as stewards of God's creation and harbingers of justice.

Vickey Parker
Stewardship of Creation Educator for Presbytery of Lake Michigan

• Read about the Sharing the Waters of Life Conference, Jun 2006 (PDF format)
• Read the Spring 2005 newsletter (PDF format)