PREACHING, WORSHIP AND SPECIAL SERVICES RESOURCES
Units in Acts of Faith: Resources for Prophetic Worship
"Every Living Creature With Us": The Environment
"Let The Hills Sing Together": Ecojustice and Climate Change"
"Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Materialism & Consumerism"
Testimony before the NC Utilities Commission:
Nancy Petty
Jim Melnyk
Presentation by Council President, Rev. Mike Cogsdale to NC Legislative Study Commission on Global Climate Change
A Service for the Healing of Earth Concerns
"Earth's Crammed with Heaven" Sermon by Rev. Denise Cumbee Long
"The Green Cross" Sermon by Rev. Marilyn Hedgepath
"A Sermon Without Words" Sermon by Rev. Jack McKinney
Scripture Commentary and Pastoral reflection: Gen. 9:8-17 by Dr. Thomas Mann
Summer Solstice Service 2006
www.webofcreation.org/worship
www.creationcare.org
NEWSLETTER -- The Climate Connection. Print PDF or order from NC IPL.
July 2008 edition
June 2008 edition
May 2008 edition
April 2008 edition
March 2008 edition
February 2008 edition
January 2008 edition
PRESENTATIONS
- One-hour program on global warming and its solutions, suitable for a 45-minute Sunday School class or church supper.
- Two-hour program appropriate for an evening or Sunday afternoon adult workshop, featuring a film showing the Creation-protecting strategies of energy conservation, efficiency and renewable generation.
- Two and one half hour energy audit workshop under the leadership of a professional energy contractor, usually for a grouping of congregations in one city or area. These sessions feature a look at utility bills to track energy usage and a walk-through of the host congregation's building to learn about weatherization techniques.
BROCHURES
NC Interfaith Power & Light Information Flyer
Conserve-ative Values Complete this survey to see how earth friendly your lifestyle is and to learn fun and easy conservation tips.
How Creation Conscious is Your House of Worship? One page quiz for congregations. Print PDF or order from NC IPL.
Peace On Earth: Peace With Earth. Brochure links political tensions with the degradation of water, air and the global climate. Print PDF or order from NC IPL.
STUDY AND DEVOTIONAL GUIDES
Caring for Creation: A Prayer/Action Guide for Lenten "Fast from Carbon." Traditionally Lent, the 40 days before Easter, has been a time of self-evaluation, repentance,
and renewal. Typical spiritual practices include prayer, almsgiving, and fasting. NC
Interfaith Power & Light invites you to “fast from carbon,” to reduce the amount of carbon
dioxide you put into the atmosphere. Click here to download this resource.
Caring for God's Creation During Advent and Beyond: A Prayer/Action Guide. This four week guide invites participants to replace one light bulb with a compact fluorescent light (CFL) each of the four times a new Advent Candle is lit. The guide provides a prayerful context, and although it is written for individual and family use, it can be easily adapted for Sunday schools, worship, or other venues. Order from NC IPL. $10 for a hard copy and a CD which can be copied to meet congregational needs.
One for Each Night: A Hanukkah Study Guide for a Brighter Future
This guide invites participants to replace one light bulb with a compact
fluorescent light (CFL) each night of Hanukkah. Though written for
individual and family use, it can easily be adapted for congregational
activities. It was developed by Georgia Interfaith Power & Light and
Congregation Bet Haverim in Atlanta and amended for North Carolina by NC
IPL.
It's God's World: Christians, Care for Creation and Global Warming. This resource contains five sessions designed to help Christians make some sense of the issues relating to global warming from the perspective of their faith. For each session there is a suggested format for a one-hour study session. Leaders may want to adapt the study to fit another time frame.
Available through Church World Service. Download a free PDF copy by going to: http//www.webofcreation.org. Or you may order copies for $1.00 each from Environmental Justice Resources, National Council of Churches, PO Box 968 , Elkhart , Indiana 46515 , 800-762-0965 or 219-264-3102. (800) 762-0968 or (219) 254-3102
The Cry of Creation: A Call for Climate Justice. Interfaith study guide on global warming prepared by Earth Ministry contains three weeks' worth of readings and meetings. Using the video "God's Creation and Global Warming" as one week's program, this would become a 4-week study.
Available as PDF at www.nccecojustice.org/resources.html
Discussion guide for Kilowatt Ours: A guide prepared by NC IPL to move groups beyond the technical and scientific domains to considering moral, spiritual or faith dimensions of the issues raised in the film. Click here to download a copy of the guide.
VIDEOS
Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America (Jeff Barrie -- 2005) traces the wires from our light switches to the power source, revealing how electricity is generated in the southeastern United States. This acclaimed documentary appeals to adults and teens, transcending differences of social, political and religious viewpoints, class and race.
Hopeful but down-to Earth, it provides practical ideas for consumers to lower their energy bills and reverse global warming. You can order the film by downloading our order form featuring special NC IPL prices of $20 for individuals or $35 for congregations (reduced from the standard donation of $95.00).
Also use the discussion guide prepared by NC IPL (see our Study Guides on this page).
God's Creation and Global Warming is a remarkably well-done 15-minute video developed around the call of the world's religious bodies to care for creation. Can be used with "The Cry of Creation" Study Guide (see above). Prepared by National Council of Churches, National Religious Partnership for the Environment, and Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life. $12.00. Order from NC IPL.
Lighten Up! Is a 25-minute interfaith video produced by The Regeneration Project and GraceCom Media. $7.00. Order from NC IPL.
Power Shift is a 26-minute video suitable for teens and adults narrated by Cameron Diaz. It explores the remarkable ways energy touches our daily lives, and issues a call to all of us to imagine, and work toward a future powered by alternative energy sources. Produced by California State and Consumer Services Agency. Available from the NC IPL lending library.
NC Interfaith Power & Light
A program of the North Carolina Council of Churches
1307 Glenwood Avenue Suite 156
Raleigh, NC 27605
Phone 919-828-6501
