Creation Care Team of Good Shepherd

09/03/2025

💚💙🙏🏼Our 2025 Season of Creation Prayer calendar is out!
With input from y'all we've crafted a prayer calendar with the richness of our Appalachian region in mind. Each day join with others to pray for vital part of creation.
Let's ground our celebration of the season with prayerful connection to God's world around us.

09/01/2025

Today is World Day of Prayer and the beginning of the Season of Creation.

Here is a link to the ecumenical Prayer Service; sit back, relax and reflect...

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08/14/2025

The Season of Creation, which runs from September 1st to October 4th, is an annual celebration of prayer and action for creation that Christians on 6 continents have commemorated for years, including the World Council of Churches and the Lutheran World Federation. This year's theme is "A Home for Al...

08/14/2025

12/06/2024

Don't forget the 3rd session of this series is Tuesday evening via Zoom. It is free and ok to attend even if you missed the 1st two sessions.

Join us on Tuesday, December 10th at 7pm for the third session of our series, Wandering Watersheds! In our third seminar, we will hear from folks who hold responsibility to protect and regulate Pennsylvania’s waterways. A representative from the PA Department of Environmental Protection as well as the Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 will join us on this call to share about the water work their offices are engaged in. We will additionally hear from experts in water policy and conservation about some of the ways they are working on the ground and in the halls of power to enact positive change for our waterways.

Register at this link or in the link in our bio!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/watersheds-and-their-protection-tickets-1028629838537

10/26/2024

Free and via Zoom so open to anyone anywhere... great opportunity to learn more about our watersheds with Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light...

We are proud to announce that we are a co-sponsor for this event being offered by Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light and hope you will be joining us as we wander through Pennsylvania’s watersheds - their problems, their people, and how we can protect them. We’ll hear from experts at each session including grassroots leaders and organizers, academics, riverkeepers including our very own Ted, protection agencies, and congregations. Together, let’s get inspired to practice faith-based stewardship of the waters that flow through the Keystone state!

“What’s a watershed?” you might ask. Watersheds are “areas or ridges of land that separate waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas”. We have six of them here in Pennsylvania, and everybody lives in one! This seminar series is designed to be an introduction to watersheds so don’t be intimidated if you don’t know much (yet!), but people with watershed literacy are also welcome and encouraged to join! There will be interactive pieces of the seminar series and the more cross-learning we can share with each other, the better.

Register for the first installment here: https://bit.ly/48j2WQ6

09/01/2024

Day 1 of the Season of Creation is here ❤️. You can watch the opening ecumenical prayer service on the official You Tube SOC channel using the link below... don't miss the best part of the service @ 12:20 ... beautiful and disquieting...

https://www.youtube.com/live/3MUb-DT4x_Y?si=2oJRc6gnC_knCiG4

This year the theme “Hope and act with Creation” and the symbol “The first fruits of hope”, inspired by Romans 8:19-25, will be our guiding inspiration.

The Season of Creation is the annual Christian celebration that calls us together each year to pray and respond jointly to the cry of Creation: the ecumenical family from around the world comes together to listen to and care for our common home.

The “Celebration” begins on September 1st, the Feast of Creation, and concludes on October 4th, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology beloved by many Christian denominations.