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Planting Seeds: Spend time in prayer, meditation, or contemplation and explore the Sacred Texts from your spiritual tradition
Suggested Practices and Examples for Implementation:
- Offer space for guided meditations or prayer circles
- Help members of your faith community explore prayer practices or meditations/reflections they can continue at home
- Hold space for group reflections on scripture or spiritual practices
- Add meditation or time for silent contemplation during worship
- Create sacred space in the building and/or on the land near your congregation
- Coordinate “field-trips” to sacred places in or around your community
General Information Related to this Strategy:
- Interfaith prayers for Creation
- Prayers for our environment (predominately Christian)
- Soul Care Project: Prayers and meditations
- Centering prayer guidelines
- Practicing Lectio Divina individually or in groups
- United Methodist Church: Prayers and Meditations
Nurturing Growth: Engage a regular prayer or meditation practice centered around Creation
Suggested Practices and Examples for Implementation:
- Pray the Creation Psalms
- Host a Creation Prayer Stations event (similar to the Stations of the Cross in Christian communities, but focused on stewardship of Creation)
- Offer prayers for Creation during worship or in small-group settings
- Offer meditations with Creation imagery
General Information Related to this Strategy:
- Interfaith prayers for Creation
- Prayers for our environment (predominately Christian)
- Creation prayer stations
- Eco-spirituality resources
- Meditations from CCA leaders
- Books of Creation-centered prayer:
- Praying with The Earth: A Prayerbook for Peace, by John Phillip Newell
- Earth Prayers edited by Elizabeth Roberts & Elisa Amidon
Local Faith Communities Currently Utilizing this Strategy:
- First Baptist Church, Asheville, NC
- Contact Brenda Denton: Bbelle2001@gmail.com
Deepening Roots: Practice radical Sabbath and provide opportunities for meditation, prayer, and reflection in outdoor spaces
Suggested Practices and Examples for Implementation:
- Offer events around reunions with nature
- Host or participate in contemplative hikes
- Offer guided prayer times in an outdoor labyrinth, or create a labyrinth on the property (consider using pollinator friendly plants in the design)
- Offer a sunrise service or worship in an outdoor space
- Host or participate in Creation / Earth Day vigils
- Engage with other congregations through shared meditation or prayer practices outdoors
General Information Related to this Strategy:
- Interfaith prayers for Creation
- Prayers for our environment (predominately Christian)
- Building Labyrinths
- Creation prayer stations
- Meditations from CCA leaders
- Sabbath Living
- Books of Creation-centered prayer:
- Praying with The Earth: A Prayerbook for Peace, by John Phillip Newell
- Earth Prayers edited by Elizabeth Roberts & Elisa Amidon
Available Resources in Western North Carolina:
- Attend a service in a public space, such as the annual Easter sunrise service
Local Faith Communities Currently Utilizing this Strategy:
- First Baptist Church, Asheville, NC
- Contact Brenda Denton: Bbelle2001@gmail.com
- Haywood Street Congregation, Asheville, NC
