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Planting Seeds: Offer a children / youth event or class focused on care for Creation
Suggested Practices and Examples for Implementation:
- Incorporate teachings about environmental issues and caring for Creation in a bible study class or another adolescent learning space
- Find Recommended Ecology Books for Children and Youth-from NCIPL
- Hold events at the park or in other outdoor spaces instead of indoors, and talk about the significance of being connected with the natural world
- Find a time to work in a community garden together and allow children and youth to get their hands dirty, connect with the earth, and learn about different plants, foods, and critters
- Host a children or youth plant sale to raise money for your faith community or another organization, and sell only native/non-invasive species of plants
- Include messages about caring for Creation during the children’s sermon or other moments during worship that are focused on your younger community members
- Host an Earth Day outdoor event for children and youth
General Information Related to this Strategy:
- Blessed Earth: books, lessons, activities, camps, and web resources for kids and youth about Creation care
- Interfaith Power & Light: Lessons, activities, and books about caring for Creation
- Eco-Curriculum Reviews
Nurturing Growth: Provide extended children / youth events, such as VBS or camp, centered around Creation
Suggested Practices and Examples for Implementation:
- Find curriculum for Vacation Bible School or other children and youth camps that focuses on Creation and environmental stewardship
- Plan a week of outdoor conservation activities and invite children, youth, and their families to participate
- Take children and youth on retreats focused on care for Creation or addressing environmental issues
- Take children and youth to camps that meet in outdoor spaces
General Information Related to this Strategy:
- Blessed Earth: books, lessons, activities, camps, and web resources for kids and youth about Creation care
- Environmental Activities for youth clubs and camps
Available Resources in Western North Carolina:
- Abundance Sustainability Summer Camp for youth
- Green River Preserve summer camp
Deepening Roots: Incorporate teachings about Creation into regular children and youth education and programming
Suggested Practices and Examples for Implementation:
- Regularly incorporate teachings about environmental issues and caring for creation in bible study classes, Wednesday night programing for children and youth, or other adolescent learning spaces
- Find weekly curriculum focused on connections found your sacred text around caring for Creation and loving our neighbors
- Take children and youth on walks around the community and pick up litter, notice gardens and creatures, and talk about Creation
- Sing songs together that celebrate Creation
- Say prayers together about environmental concerns and the ways they impact our neighbors
General Information Related to this Strategy:
- Blessed Earth: books, lessons, activities, camps, and web resources for kids and youth about Creation care
- Interfaith Power & Light: Lessons, activities, and books about caring for Creation
- Eco-Curriculum Reviews