Stewardship of Creation

Stewardship of Creation Enablers are called to serve presbyteries as educators, motivators, and facilitators of action to protect God’s Creation. They are to assist congregations and other groups within the church to gain the knowledge and skills to sustain long-term, spiritually vital commitment to God’s Creation. They are to facilitate engagement by congregations and committed church members with other groups in their own communities and around the world seeking to address immediate environmental problems and to find long-term solutions. As enablers of others, they will be an important conduit for the national staff team, as well as local, regional or national ecumenical environmental ministries, to resource, alert and mobilize Presbyterians on behalf of God’s Creation. They will also strengthen the outreach by presbytery committees to congregations and enhance communications between congregations and among individual Presbyterians.

West Virginia’s Co-Enablers are:

            Marcia Leitch  e-mail @ jmleitch@mountain.net

            Robin Blakeman  e-mail @ robinbe@verizon.net

West Virginia Sustainability Energy Charter

General Environmental Advocacy & Education/ Resources:

http://www.pcusa.org/environment/enablers.htm [PC USA Stewardship of Creation Enablers]

http://www.prcweb.org    [Presbyterians for Restoring Creation]

www.nccecojustice.org   [National Council of Churches of Christ's Eco-Justice Working Group]

http://www.sierraclub.org   [Sierra Club Home Page]

http://www.nature.org   [The Nature Conservancy]

www.ilovemountains.org  [I Love Mountains.Org]

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=small_business.sb_congregations  [Energy Star for Congregations]

Local Environmental Advocacy Groups:

www.ohvec.org  [Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition]

http://www.ohvec.org/action_alerts/current.htm  [Most recent OVEC Action Alert]

www.kftc.org  [Kentuckians for the Commonwealth]

http://westvirginia.sierraclub.org     [WV Sierra Club]

http://www.wvhighlands.org  [WV Highlands Conservancy]

http://www.appalachian-center.org  [The Appalachian Center for the Economy and Environment]

http://www.crmw.net  [Coal River Mountain Watch]

http://www.coalriverwind.org/  [Coal River Wind]

Faith Based Environmental Ethics Statements:

www.webofcreation.org [Web of Creation:  Ecology Resources to Transform Faith and Society]

http://www.wvcc.org/docs/MountainTopRemovalResolution2007.pdf  [WVCC 2007 MTR Opposition Statement]

http://www.kftc.org/our-work/canary-project/people-in-action/religious-leaders-mwt/?searchterm=Faith%20Leaders%20Tour,%20May%202007  [KFTC  May 2007 Interfaith Leaders MTR Opposition Statement]