The Environment Ministry at Canadian Memorial strives to cultivate a spiritual understanding of Creation, and to adopt and promote awareness of a spiritually-principled approach to planetary sustainability.
Activities
From environmental audits, community dialogues and tracking the latest ways to reduce our ecological footprint, our volunteer team is eager to hear your ideas and have you get involved! Past events include the protest "A bridge for a cool planet" to take action against climate change and an eco-psychology retreat.
Be the Change
Through our Un-Conference, Symposiums, and Leadership Training, Be The Change engages citizens of all ages and types to get involved in Action Circles – small groups of people that meet regularly to connect with others, explore sustainability issues, and become inspired to make lifestyle changes to build a better world.
To get involved, visit http://www.bethechangeearthalliance.org/
Vision
- To develop a deep understanding within our congregation about God’s presence in Creation and our spiritual connections to the planet.
- To nurture in every member of the congregation a new understanding of the Creation consciousness.
- To periodically host events, workshops, and symposia which promote Eco-spirituality and Cosmo-genesis.
- To disseminate information regarding events and activities that promote environmental awareness and speak to related issues and concerns with posters, flyers, church bulletin and web site.
- To produce periodic reviews that support our interest and increase awareness.
- To carry out a sustainability audit of CMUC.
- To collectively become more aware of and to reduce our ecological footprint.
- To inspire and empower the congregation to take actions that will make a difference in advancing sustainability and honouring Creation.
- To highlight what we are doing well at CMUC and expand on it.
- Have the church be a model of an environmentally sustainable home.
- To deepen our awareness of the environment in biblical literature.
- To challenge conventional thinking.
- To have a section on the CMUC web site that talks about the mission statement for the Ministry Team for the Environment. Link our web sites to other web sites that support our goals.
- To reach out to the broader local community on eco-spirituality issues, through theme-based services such as Peace in the City.
- To connect with others in the local environmental, spiritual and faith communities who share our mandate.
