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Earth Day Resources

Global Warming on the Pulpit
Earth Day Weekends (April 19, 20, 21 or 25, 26, 27)

What are You Planning?
Let us know what your congregation is doing for Earth Day! Please click here to let us know through our online form. We invite you to send up photos - send an email to Allison with your photos.

Earth Day Resources:
- Activities for your Congregation
- Advocacy opportunity for your Congregation
- Sermon & Worship Resources

Global Warming Sermon Contest
This year GWIPL is happy to announce our first ever Earth Day sermon, homily, or khutba writing contest. This is a wonderful opportunity for your congregation to be reminded of deep faith connections to the issue of global warming and to help inspire the community to live more sustainably. Furthermore, as a larger interfaith community we will be able to honor and celebrate our great clergy and lay speakers.

Top Prize: $300 worth of CFL light bulbs for your favorite soup kitchen or similar low-income community project.

Two Runners-up Prizes: $100 worth of CFL light bulbs for your favorite soup kitchen or similar low-income community project

Sermons will be judged on:
- Clarity and focus of the entire sermon
- Aesthetic appeal
- Theological foundation
- Creativity

Deadline
Please submit text of the entire sermon, homily, or khutba to Allison Fisher at Allison@gwipl.org by May 2, 2008. Winners will be announced on May 23, 2008. Submissions will only accept from MD, DC, or NOVA. Good luck and we look forward to reading your submissions! If you have questions, please contact Allison at 202-886-8684.

Sermon & Worship Resources

Sermons & Sermon Starters
Go to Sermon Starters on Mountain Top Removal, Global Warming, Justice

Links to sermons, including from local clergy, are available on our sermon page.

Worship Resources
Prayers, poems, and other ideas for incorporating the earth into your worship service: Go to GWIPL's liturgy page.

Christian Resource: Each year the Eco-Justice Program of the National Council of Churches produces Earth Day resources, including liturgies and sermon starters. The excellent 2008 resources explores the interconnectedness of poverty and climate change - go to the Climate and Poverty Earth Day Sunday Resource.

 

Looking for inspiration? Read about Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church's Earth Day actives last year.

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