Care for God’s Creation/World Hunger

SCSW Hunger Team with a Focus on Climate Change and Water

Climate change could push more than 100 million people into poverty in just the next 15 years. “Climate change hits the poorest the hardest,” says World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, “and our challenge now is to protect tens of millions of people from falling into extreme poverty because of a changing climate.” ELCA World Hunger blog (www.bit.ly/ELCAHungerClimate)

Resources for Congregations:

• First Steps for Your Congregation
• ELCA Caring for Creation Resources
• ELCA Caring for Creation Social Statement
• Climate Change 101
• ELCA World Hunger
  Find Hunger & Climate Change Connections, Community Gardens How-To-Guide, water resources, bulletin inserts, etc. We are an ELCA World Hunger Team
• ELCA Advocacy
  State and Federal action alerts and updates, plus the Paris Agreement, Green Climate Fund, energy policy, and more.
• Lutheran Office for Public Policy in Wisconsin
  Taking a lead on these issues for our state’s congregations
• Journal of Lutheran Ethics: “Facing Climate Change”

Other State & National Resources:

• Clean Wisconsin
  Protecting Wisconsin’s clean air and water.
• Citizen’s Climate Lobby
  The main source for Carbon Fee & Dividend solution (a solution supported by our Care for God’s Creation Team).
• RENEW Wisconsin
  Working to increase renewable energy. 
• 52 Creation-focused Bible passages
• Earth Day Resources
  from Interfaith Power & Light
• Creation Justice
  (formerly National Council of Churches’ Eco-justice Program)
• Lutherans Restoring Creation
  500th Reformation Anniversary eco-reflections on the Small Catechism & more.
• Eco-Lutheranism
  Lutheran Perspectives on Ecology and The Forgotten Luther: Reclaiming the Social-Economic Dimension of the Reformation (from Lutheran University Press).
• EnergyStar.gov
  Action Workbook for Congregations

South-Central Synod Care for God’s Creation Team:

• Rev. Nick Utphall, Chair – nick@themcc.net
• Jane Harrison, Secretary
• Rev. Cindy Crane for LOPPW – cindyc@loppw.org
• Bob Lindmeier, Climate Change Presentations – boblindmeier@gmail.com
• Rev. Mae Jean Zelle