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Care of Creation Task Force

The Care of Creation Task Force is organized around four mini task forces:

  • Green Teams
  • Land Use
  • Spiritual Practices
  • Community Advocacy

Individually and in combination, these “minis” have restoration at their core. They seek to restore sustainable living, native plants, ancient Anglican connectedness to nature, and moral leadership in the public sphere.

Each of the teams have adopted their own set of goals.

Green Teams: establish at least one team in every minster and, ideally, one in each parish; learn from the long-established team at Trinity Lawrence; implement the Sustain Island Home carbon-tracking website; conduct energy audits; and address aging HVAC systems throughout the diocese (perhaps seeking an economy of scale by sharing a contractor within minsters).

The Green Team has developed a “Do-It-Yourself Energy Audit for Congregations” which can be found here. This audit will help congregations discover ways to save energy in their facilities.

The Green Team has also developed a Green Team Guide, Planting Your Green Team, Growing Earth Stewards, which can be found here. Clicking on a topic in the Table of Contents will take you directly to that topic.

Land Use: two native restoration centers in each convocation; discerning a use for land at Bethany Place; and possibly a legacy land program. Note: a glebe is land belonging or yielding revenue to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice. The diocese has a glebe in the Northwest Convocation that the Land Use mini will study.

The Land Use mini has developed Restoring Our Roots in Creation: Pilgrimages You Can Take in Kansas. This electronic booklet can be found here. We encourage parishes and parishioners to email Mother Jenn Allen at jallen@episcopal-ks.org if you have a space you would like to have included in this resource.

Spiritual Practices: explore our rich Anglican heritage of creation care, which includes the often-neglected Rogation Days (which we envision as minster or neighborhood celebrations); develop a green liturgy; create 52 weekly additions to the Prayers of the People; seek opportunities to evangelize to earth-oriented people; and be available as a resource to the Liturgy, Music and the Arts Task Force.

The liturgical resources discovered and created by the Care of Creation Task Force which have been approved for use in the diocese include:

Community Advocacy: lead and encourage ways for the diocese, parishes, and persons to reach out to governmental, civic, economic, and social entities at all levels of communities; to foster all manners of climate and earth restoration and health policy and practices be adopted, and partner with other organizations such as the Climate and Energy Project and with Kansas Interfaith Action regarding climate justice issues.

Please join us on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/edokcreationcare

For more information contact the task force chair, the Rev. Jenn Allen, jallen@episcopal-ks.org.

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