Voices for Justice and Creation: May Updates from Lutherans Restoring Creation
Learn how Lutheran leaders are addressing the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in a free May 27 webinar, and explore new creation care resources from Lutherans Restoring Creation. Share your voice in a churchwide ELCA survey, mark your calendar for upcoming climate-focused calls, and join a June 4 conversation on federal policy and the environment. Read the full newsletter now for links and details. Read the full update.
May Good Green News from Lutherans Restoring Creation
In this season of advocacy, renewal, and reflection, Lutherans Restoring Creation offers new opportunities to deepen your congregation’s connection to justice and creation care.
On Tuesday, May 27 at 4pm AK / 5pm PT / 6pm MT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET, you’re invited to a special webinar featuring Justice Nichols, Program Coordinator for Indigenous Ministries and Tribal Relations for the ELCA, and Brenda Blackhawk, Director of Communications at Central Lutheran Church. They will offer insight into the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) Sub-Task Force, and discuss how congregations can connect with local Indigenous communities and respond faithfully to this ongoing crisis. Register today to participate in this important conversation.
This work is part of our wider vocation to resist green colonialism and engage in justice-rooted creation care—lifting up both ecological and cultural restoration as interwoven commitments.
In other updates:
The ELCA wants your voice! Take a quick 5-minute confidential survey to help guide our churchwide planning and programming. Take the survey now.
Celebrate Mother Earth this month with One Home One Future, which is offering a free Native Species & Healthy Creation resource, alongside hundreds of tools to help your congregation care for creation.
Mark your calendar for upcoming LRC Connections Calls:
June 24: Climate Resilience
July 22: Do Energy Expertly!
August 19: Joint call with ELCA World Hunger
And on June 4, bring your questions to a virtual coffee conversation with Christine Moffett, focused on federal environmental policy. Join here.
Finally, as Synod Assembly Season continues, consider how your congregation might advocate for climate and creation care initiatives in your local context.
Stay rooted in your calling—restoring creation, seeking justice, and walking together.
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