Honoring and Protecting Creation
The mission of the Green Team is to catalyze Creation Care at St. Ambrose, our local communities, and across the Planet Earth. Adults and youth are welcome in the Green Team!
The Episcopal Church believes that “In Jesus, God so loved the whole world. We follow Jesus, so we love the world God loves. Concerned for the global climate emergency, drawing on diverse approaches for our diverse contexts, we commit to form and restore loving, liberating, life-giving relationships with all of Creation” (from the website of the Episcopal Church). The mission of the Green Team at St. Ambrose is to catalyze Creation Care at St. Ambrose, our local communities, and across the Planet Earth.
You are invited to join the Green Team!
Saint Ambrose Joins One Home One Future
St. Ambrose has joined the One Home One Future campaign focused on Creation Care, and we have a new banner to advertise our commitment to environmental justice to our neighbors. The organization educates, activates, and supports clergy, congregants, youth, and all spiritual people in meaningful and just climate solutions locally, regionally, and nationally in ways that are accessible and positive.
One Home One Future is a multi-faith campaign to strengthen vitality, relevance and community connection across generations in local congregations nationwide. It is a coalition effort of US faith denominations and organizations for visible and collective creation care and climate action.
Find out more at OneHomeOneFuture.org.
Watch the videos below to hear how Saint Ambrose is making a commitment to Creation Care for 2024:
Creation Care Reading
There are now two shelves in out St Ambrose library dedicated to Creation Care reading materials! Come take a look and check out a book on Sundays or weekdays during office hours.
Past Event: Farm Tour and Local Food Coffee Hour
On Saturday, September 23, 2023, the Green Team of St. Ambrose is inviting you on a tour of Jacob Springs Farm in Boulder.
Jacob Springs is a diversified, beyond organic 450-acre farm located near Boulder on the southeast corner of Arapahoe Road and 75th Street. In the farming off season, Andre Houssney, the owner, is a frequent consultant and lecturer in the areas of regenerative agriculture, the environment, and social development.
Jacob Springs specializes in grass-fed proteins as well as grass-based milk. They also have fruits and vegetables in season and comb honey from their bees.
Please join members of the Green Team for a visit to Jacob Springs Farm on Saturday, September 23rd. We can gather at St. Ambrose in the parking lot at 10:15 AM and then make the five minute drive together over to the farm. The tour should last until 12 noon.
In harmony with our Jacobs Springs Farm tour on Saturday, September 23, we will have a local food coffee hour on Sunday, September 24, after our 10 am service. Members of our Green Team have volunteered to make coffee hour treats from local food including the St. Ambrose garden, their own gardens, the Jacob Springs Farm store, and local farmer's markets.
Past Event: Garden Blessing, “Blessing of the Soil” and The Creation Care Fair
Sunday, May 7 at 11:15-12:30
Garden Soil Blessing and Creation Care Fair: Come learn about ways to care for the earth, reduce your carbon footprint, and enrich our local environment with gardening and composting. Sunday, May 7, 2023, from 11:15 am to 12:30 pm Light lunch provided. Bring a small container of your garden soil to be blessed (optional). St Ambrose Episcopal Church, 7520 South Boulder Road, Boulder (turn on Barcelona St at intersection with South Boulder Road.)
Past Event: “Current Revolution” Film Series and Zoom Discussions Tuesday, April 18 and Wednesday, April 19 at 7 pm
Current Revolution, a series of short films from the American Resilience Project, explores the transition from fossil fuels to renewables with a focus on national security, economic prosperity, and environmental justice. These films show how the nation can embrace smart policies and investments that support grid modernization through distributed renewable energy generation, and ensure that the transition is just and sustainable. All participants will watch the films online and then engage in discussions on Zoom (no in-person meeting).
Tuesday: The Transformation Cannot Be Stopped: This film tackles the challenge of how the utility, auto, tech, and defense industries can help modernize the aging power grid to make it more secure and responsive to the needs of its users while enhancing environmental performance. Deadline to sign up is Tuesday April 18 at 2pm.
Wednesday: Nation in Transition: This film explores the coal-to-renewables transition on the Navajo Nation and across northern Arizona through the stories of workers, their families and communities, business and tribal leaders, utility executives, policy makers and environmental activists. Deadline to sign up is Wednesday April 19 at 2pm.
Wednesday: Workforce Rising: This short film focuses on the rapid advancement of electric vehicles. Deadline to sign up is Wednesday April 19 at 2pm.
More about Creation Care and the Episcopal Church:
The Episcopal Church’s Covenant for the Care of Creation is a commitment to practice loving formation, liberating advocacy and life-giving conservation as individuals, congregations, ministries and dioceses.
The Episcopal Church in Colorado has shared the following about Creation Care:
Caring for creation means living in mindful, ethical, and loving relationship with the earth and all living things, knowing that all life is interconnected and that we share a common home. Climate change is the most important threat the world is facing. As people of faith, it is incumbent upon us to take an active part in the solutions. The time for contemplation on this issue is over. We must act decisively now.
Almighty God, in giving us dominion over things on earth,
you made us fellow workers in your creation: Give us wisdom
and reverence so to use the resources of nature, that no one
may suffer from our abuse of them, and that generations yet
to come may continue to praise you for your bounty; through
Jesus Christ our Lord.
(Prayer for the Conservation of Natural Resources, BCP 827)
In Colorado, we live in a beautiful and sacred part of God’s creation, a place that calls us to reverence, prayerfulness, proclamation, conversation, and action. In the face of the many challenges impacting creation, we seek more than simple solutions that don’t go far enough. We seek to be educated, informed, and equipped, avoiding aggressive and confrontational attitudes and actions that polarize and divide.