The CCDC Green Team
The CCDC Green Team was formed in early 2020 to guide our church toward greater involvement and action in our denomination’s environmental justice ministry. When renewing the church’s covenant in 2016, we purposefully added the promise “to restore and protect all of God’s creation.” This led to initiatives aimed at accessing and reducing the church’s carbon footprint, monthly sermons on climate and environmental justice, plus forums and book groups to better educate ourselves on the climate crisis and its intersection with economic, social and racial injustice.
Our multi-generational Green Team will continue moving us forward toward more action.
Goals include:
- become a UCC Creation Justice Church (voted by congregation on September 13, 2020, approved by UCC October 2020)
- continue “greening” our building (saving energy, reducing waste, going solar)
- engage in critical thinking about the socioeconomic dimensions of environmental justice such as race, class, and global inequality
- encourage our members and other churches to pledge to be a Faith Climate Justice Voter, an initiative of Interfaith Power & Light
- connect with UCC Environmental Ministries along with interfaith, ecumenical, and secular partners engaged in environmental justice work
- advocate for policies that restore and protect creation and address the human inequalities and injustices made even worse by the climate crisis
Green Team Members: Gail McPeek, Bruce Freeberg, Associate Pastor Robert Grabill, John Torrey, Katie Aman, Stephen Shadford, Sylvia Field, Libby Barry, Lydia Hansberry, Evie McBride, Katharine Moseley, Robert Keene, Margaret Jernstedt and Tom Wilson
CCDC Creation Justice Covenant
The Church of Christ at Dartmouth College covenant affirms our commitment to restore and protect all of God’s creation, recognizing the gift of grace in every human life.
We commit ourselves to caring for all people around the globe, especially the most marginalized and dispossessed.
Our church joins the wider United Church of Christ in recognizing that as the environment degrades and the planet warms, the inequalities that already exist between the rich and the poor will continue to widen.
Our congregation will advocate for those who are vulnerable, exploited, and disenfranchised by the devastating effects of a degraded planet.
We believe that working for creation justice is the way forward to a more equitable planet for all people and every living creature in God’s creation.
Our church community commits to fighting climate change through activism, education, strategic partnerships, greening of our church building, and financial decision-making.
Together, we vow to act to protect our planet for present and future generations, who have the right to live in a better world, a kin-dom of mutual care.
Guided by our faith, we covenant to walk together as stewards in God’s ways, redeemed by the message of Jesus our Christ, and lifted and inspired by the Holy Spirit.
God’s earth is ours to protect.
Congregational Vote to become a creation justice church unanimously passed 9/13/2020.