Lisa’s Pieces: Creation Care Tips from the Synod Lutherans Restoring Creation Team for September 2025

Aug 23, 2025

By Lisa Brenskelle

For more information on any of the below, or for creation care assistance/information, contact Lisa Brenskelle at gcs.lrc@gmail.com or see our new website! The team is seeking additional members. If you would be willing to serve, please contact us.

The mission of Lutherans Restoring Creation is to promote incorporation of care for creation into the full life and mission of the church, working in five areas: worship, education, discipleship, building & grounds, and public ministry/advocacy. For some timely information in these areas, see below:

Worship

Use Our Time to Rise: Religious Resources for Sun Day for your worship service on Sun Day, Sept. 21. Uncertain how to preach on climate change? Check out A Living Hope: Preaching on the Climate Crisis.  Offer choral performances at your church? Consider the A Passion for the Planet oratorio for an interfaith event. A new creation-focused prayer is posted each week. Creation-focused commentaries on the lectionary are available from a Lutheran source.

Education

What is integral ecology and what does it have to do with our faith? Find out in The Nuts & Bolts of Integral Ecology online on Sept. 28. Climate change is a human rights issue? Learn all about it in Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue online on Sept. 7. Hear from the author of Building a Moral Economy Book Club online on September 30. Think there is no solution to climate change?  Learn about solutions available now in Climate Solutions 101 online on Thursdays, Sept. 11 – Oct. 16. Consider Reconnecting with Creation: The Importance of Place-Based Education in educational offerings.

Discipleship

Share these “Bulletin blurb” eco-tips (+ verses & quotes) with your congregation. Join the Earth and Soul book discussion group for the Season of Creation, online on Wednesdays from Sept. 3 – Oct. 1. Check out this free creation-focused devotional: The Earth is the Lord’s.  Use the Simple Living resource to consider how to reduce your impact on the planet. Work with a facilitator to create a plan to reduce your household carbon footprint by 50% by 2030 in Living the Change.

Building & Grounds

Pre-order a discounted, repurposed rain barrel for your congregation & pick it up at Christ the King in Houston on Sept. 21. After you pick up your rain barrel, attend Tips & Tricks to Going Solar.  These events are part of activities for Sun Day at Christ the King on Sept. 21, 2 – 4:30 p.m. Join us for all of them! Your staff can act to combat climate change. See Five ways to take climate action at work – brainstormed by employees like you!  Join Faithful Resilience: A Study on Climate Resilience online on Tuesdays, Sept. 11 – Oct. 14 to become a force for climate resilience in your community.

Public Ministry/Advocacy

The weekly-updated Opportunities to Care for, Learn About, and Enjoy Nature features volunteer events in the greater Houston area.  September is the perfect time to hold a voter registration event. Find out if you have a volunteer deputy voter registrar in your congregation & plan an event for September! Consider organizing a Justice Advocacy Event at your church.  Use the Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool to find neighborhoods near you that are marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution and work with them to bring about justice.  A new eco-justice advocacy opportunity is posted on the synod team’s website each week.

September & Early October Creation Care Events