About Us
Mission
The Creation Care Alliance brings people of faith from across the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains together to care for God's creation by loving our planet and our neighbors.
What We Do
As the faith-based program of MountainTrue, the Creation Care Alliance brings people of faith and faith communities in the Southern Blue Ridge together to care for creation—our human and non-human neighbors and the places we call home.
Through education, service, advocacy, and organizing, we offer congregations and people of faith a clear path to cultivating their environmental stewardship and ecological justice ministries while contributing to needed systemic change in the broader community.
We believe that faith communities and people of faith have a vital and unique role to play in movements for ecological and intersectional justice, and it is our honor and joy to support and empower that calling. Our work is an expression of our love. Our love is an expression of our faith.
Faith Identity
When we were first founded as WNC Green Congregations in 2012, our grassroots membership was made up of Christians and Jews from a variety of theological backgrounds. We were a rooted Abrahamic, Judeo-Christian community. We were also excited by the prospect of working alongside our siblings of other faiths and spiritualities to achieve our shared goal of creation care and ecological justice.
As we’ve grown, we have continued to expand our membership with the hope of forming a truly multi-faith network. We believe that we need each other’s wisdom and support to create a just and sustainable world and welcome people of all faith and spiritual backgrounds who share our values of love for neighbor and care for the planet.
Creation Care Alliance Engagement Manager - Julie Lehman
Julie Lehman has spent most of her career working with congregations and people of faith around spiritual growth and curiosity, leadership development, environmental education, and enjoying God’s creation. She spent a decade at Warren Wilson College working on church relations in partnership with the school’s Environmental Leadership Center. From 2015 to 2025, she worked at Montreat Conference Center, where she focused on church relations and development. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Davidson College and a Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Columbia Theological Seminary, with a thesis focused on environmental theology and ethics.
She lives in Asheville in an intergenerational home with her husband (a pastor), her mother, one of their two adult sons (while he attends nursing school), and two rescue dogs, Xena and Zoe. When she is not worshiping at Michael’s Church in Spruce Pine, NC, she is active at a United Church of Christ in Asheville, planning and leading Worship Outside the Walls events that keep members informed about and engaged in the community. She has been active with the Creation Care Alliance and MountainTrue as both a volunteer and a board member. The daughter of interfaith parents, she is excited for the opportunity to build and strengthen relationships with and collaboration between faith communities that share a call to care for creation.
Contact Julie: (828) 617-0843 / lehman@mountaintrue.org
