Creation Care in the Pacific Northwest Conference means tending to the health of the environment, including all places where we live, work, play and pray. We have grown to understand that creation care can also be justice work as the communities most often hurt by climate change, environmental neglect, and rampant consumption are those with the least access access, resources and privilege.

Creation care ministries extend into the full life of the church:

• Worship: Connecting our praise of the God who chose to become present in the physical world with our own love for this world.
• Education: Learning the Biblical, theological, and historical connections between faith and creation care, and understanding the theological implications of our current environmental crisis.
• Mission: Recognizing the deep connections between creation care and historic concerns of the church including hunger, poverty, and justice, and ensuring that our relationship with the environment supports rather than undermines our missional work.
• Financial Administration: Acknowledging that our values are vividly expressed by the ways in which we manage and spend our financial resources, and ensuring that our purchases and investments support the care of creation.
• Building and Property Management: Caring for our physical assets in ways that enhance the flourishing of God’s creation.
• Fellowship: Exploring and enjoying the natural world with one another.

All of our efforts are in alignment with our Social Principles which declare,

“All creation is the Lord’s, and we are responsible for the ways in which we use and abuse it. Water, air, soil, minerals, energy resources, plants, animal life, and space are to be valued and conserved because they are God’s creation and not solely because they are useful to human beings…”