Fifteen-Plus Action Ideas
- Help your church hold a "Creation Sunday" worship service. (See the Creation Sunday and Creation Sunday 2001 pages on this web site.)
- Let people know about EEN's Healthy Families, Healthy Environment educational campaign designed to give families the information they need to protect their loved ones from environmental threats. See www.healthyfamiliesnow.org.
- Become a "sister congregation" with a church in a poor community where toxic waste or pollution threatens the health of the church members. Take their youth on an annual outdoor adventure. This works especially well when church youth groups are involved.
- Hold a Creation Celebration and invite your community, campus or congregation to enjoy the outdoors with you.
- Start an evangelistic Bible study with unbelievers on what the Bible says about the environment.
- Set up a booth at a local environmental fair or Earth Day event or plan one for your church.
- If you're a church-based group, get your church to conduct an energy audit and implement improvements. (Contact EEN for a book on the subject, The Lord's House.)
- Adopt a local stream, park or roadway for clean up, monitoring or restoration.
- Identify an important issue and visit or write letters to local, state or national leaders about it, and join the EEN Public Policy Team.
- Start a "Creation Club" for kids in your community. These work well even in inner city neighborhoods.
- Start a Bible study on creation care issues for church members who want to learn what the Bible says about caring for creation.
- Start a library in your church. Some churches have experimented with toy libraries or tool libraries. Such ministries help us to live more simply and thereby reduce the pressures of our materialism on creation.
- Volunteer in a city, state or national park. With good advance planning, rangers, park personnel or foresters can put your group to work.
- Hold a public prayer event with emphasis on creation care, restoration and stewardship.
- Plant trees, shrubs and perennials in places where shade and beauty are needed.
- Organize a community garden and encourage gardeners to donate some of the harvest to local homeless shelters and soup kitchens.