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Resources for you to download

For Churches

• “Churches Going Green” package.
  Our “Churches Going Green” Package is a fabulous resource for any church or agency wishing
  to pursue a care-of-creation journey.
  It contains:
  • More than 200 practical strategies that your church can gradually choose from and
    implement, with additional resources to help realise some of the key ones.
  • A clear, user-friendly statement of the theological/biblical mandate for creation care.
  • More than 300 practical creation care ideas for the individuals and families within your faith community. Practical steps toward enabling your Church to engage in Creation care
    Churches going green

Living Lightly

• Green choices: Hundreds of practical ideas for Eco-friendly living
  Green Choices – Hundreds of practical ideas for Eco-friendly living
• Fifty top tips for creation care FIFTY TOP TIPS FOR CREATION CARE

For Home Groups

• Why Christians Should Care about God’s Creation – the Evangelical Environmental Network
  • Why Christians Should Care about God’s Creation EEN Bible Study 1
  • Why Did God Create Creation? EEN Adult Study Guide EEN Bible Study 2
  • What went Wrong – and What is God doing about it? EEN Bible Study 3
  • How Bad Is It? Analyzing a Perfect Storm part 1 EEN Bible Study 4
  • How Bad Is It? Analyzing a Perfect Storm Part 2 EEN Bible Study 5
  • Consumption – What’s Driving the Storm EEN Bible Study 6
  • God’s Solution: Mobilize the Church! Part I–Individuals and Families EEN Bible Study 7
  • Mobilizing the Church Part II Communities and Congregations EEN Bible Study 8
• Future Shape – Caring for God’s creation. Mission studies for ministers in creation care
  • Creation care is mission Future Shape Ministers study 1
  • Creation care is biblical mission (part 1) Future Shape Ministers study 2&3
  • Creation care is ethical mission Future Shape Ministers study 4
  • Creation care is Jubilee Mission Future Shape Ministers study 5
  • Creation care is world mission Future Shape Ministers study 6
• Small group studies on creation care 
  • Future Shape Small group study 1
  • Future Shape Small group study 2
  • Future Shape Small group study 3
  • Future Shape Small group study 4
  • Future Shape Small group study 5
  • Future Shape Small group study 6
• Tenants of the King Leaders Notes
  The Tenants of the King study guide is designed to help you and your church have an honest conversation about God’s purpose for creation and his church. Tenants of the King Leaders Notes

For Young People

• Tread Gently and Go Green Ideas for Young People – Tread Gently and Go Green 
• Young people and the environment – Ideas and activities for youth groups Youth-and-the-Environment

For Children

• Acorns to Oaks Ideas and activities for children’s work Children and Creation Care

Theology

• Theology and the environment – Some green theological perspectives Theology-and-the-environment 
• (Re)New(ed) Creation: The End of the Story Michael W. Goheen (Re)New(ed) Creation-The End of the Story
• The Biblical Mandate for Creation Care: Summary Phillip Donnell The Biblical Mandate for Creation Care

For Worship

• Celebrating Creation
• General Worship Resources
• The Climate is Changing Hymn
• Prayer of Lament and Confession
• Franciscan Blessing
• Creation Centered Hymns

NCNZ Activities

• Why on Earth Should we Care?
  An NCNZ seminar by Dr. Wesley Webb. These are slides used for the presentation. There is no soundtrack
  Why on Earth should we care?

Answers To Objections

Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give a reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect… (I Peter 3:15 NIV)

Al Gore called climate change ‘an inconvenient truth’, which he defined as an inescapable fact that we would prefer to ignore. Many people want to ignore environmental problems.

Over the time that I have been involved in the Christian environmental movement, I have heard nearly every possible objection and excuse for disregarding the Biblical mandate and choosing not to be involved in caring for what God has made.

Many people think we don’t need to take care of the earth for one reason or another. Many are climate change deniers, or simply do not care about environmental degradation. This resource addresses the most common issues that arise, twenty major and twenty minor, drawing on responses from a range of experts and commentators…

Answers to Objections Book