The New England Synod is “Going Green.”

Synod names ‘green’ liaison: Pr. Nancy Wright

As the New England Synod begins to listen to God’s call to earthkeeping, Pr. Nancy G. Wright, Ascension, South Burlington, Vt., who formerly served with two ecumenical agencies focusing on environmental justice, has agreed to be the synod’s environmental liaison to encourage, empower, and equip congregations to care for creation. Pr. Wright, who grew up in Colorado, has a Master’s degree in Environmental Conservation Education. She will be working with Calumet Lutheran Ministries, the synod’s outdoor ministry partner headquartered in Freedom, N.H., which plans to re-create itself into a “green” resource for the synod. (SeeThe Lutheran Link, May 2008, p.1.) If you want to join the synod’s “Green Team,” contact Sister Virginia Strahan, the synod’s communication specialist, at (508) 791-1530 x103 or sisterv@nesynod.org. Read Pr. Wright’s reflection, Healing God’s Creation.

Check below to see what congregations already are doing, and how you can become a Care for Creation Center.

· Congregations (what your neighbors have done already)

· Green honor roll (if you’re missing, let us know)

· Green resources (ways to care for creation)

· The Greening of LSS

· Caring for Creation: Vision, Hope and Justice (ELCA Social Statement, 1993)

· Resolution 07-10 Global Climate Change (New England Synod Assembly, 2007)