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Earth Day
Food Waste
Trees
Blessed Tomorrow
Thought
General Assembly
Garden
Become a GC Ministry
GC Congregations
Sign On
Green Chalice
is a partnership Creation Care ministry of Disciples Home Missions and the Christian Church in Kentucky. 
Our mission is to connect Christian faith, spiritual practice, and creation consciousness in order to demonstrate the fullness of God's shalom. 
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April 2015
Happy EARTH Day
Earth

How Earth Day began -At a conference in Seattle in September 1969, Senator Gaylord Nelson announced that in the spring of 1970 there would be a nationwide grassroots demonstration on behalf of the environment and invited everyone to participate. The wire services carried the story from coast to coast. The response was electric. It took off like gangbusters. Telegrams, letters, and telephone inquiries poured in from all across the country. The American people finally had a forum to express its concern about what was happening to the land, rivers, lakes, and air - and they did so with spectacular exuberance. ---Earth Day worked because of the spontaneous response at the grassroots level. They had neither the time nor resources to organize 20 million demonstrators and the thousands of schools and local communities that participated. That was the remarkable thing about Earth Day. It organized itself. 

Click Here to learn more of the history!


 

Click Here to learn more about Earth Day 2015.

Earth Day Materials
Earth Day is April 22nd and Earth Sunday can be celebrated April 19th or 26th. 
The theme, 

Sustainable Food in a Changing Climate , explores the relationship between climate change and the food that we eat using one of the lectionary texts for this Sunday. 


 

Rev. Carol Devine (Green Chalice) and Rev. Rebecca Barnes (PC USA) worked together to write, compile and edit an expanded resource for 2015 that includes a children's sermon, children, youth and adult education materials, a prayer station and more. 

 

Resources are available on the website.

Download your copy now!

 

Click here for a Great Place mat from Presbyterian Hunger Program on Food and Climate

WastED

The first sign that Scott Lynch's dinner at WastED was going to be an exceptional, truly entertaining experience came with the bread, when his waitress poured the hot "wax" from my candle into a little dish of rosemary and sea salt, and told him to use it as a dip. The candle was made from beef tallow, or rendered beef fat, which is normally discarded in restaurants (and homes) everywhere, but turns out to make a not-bad bread spread, in addition to providing a pretty and romantic addition to the table.

 

For three weeks, Blue Hill restaurant in Greenwich Village temporarily reinvented itself as wastED, a pop-up devoted to the theme of food waste and re-use. wastED collaborated with local farmers, fishermen, distributors, processors, plant breeders, producers, restaurants and retailers, reconceiving "waste" that occurs at every link in the food chain. They worked with more than twenty guest chefs to curate daily specials and help celebrate what chefs do every day on their menus (and peasant cooking has done for thousands of years): creating something delicious out of the ignored or un-coveted.

 

Read the full article about WastED here!
Plant Trees for 
Earth Day 2015
The Canopy Project plants trees that help communities - especially the world's impoverished communities - sustain themselves and their local economies. Trees reverse the impacts of land degradation and provide food, energy and income, helping communities to achieve long-term economic and environmental sustainability. Trees also filter the air and help stave off the effects of climate change. That's why, earlier this the year, Earth Day Network made a commitment with the Global Poverty Project to plant 10 million trees over the next five years in impoverished areas of the world. For every $1 you donate, we will plant trees where they are most needed - in areas such as Haiti, Uganda, Brazil, Mexico and urban areas in the U.S. 

Contribute by clicking here.

Inspire Others

 

Faith communities have the power to lead their members and our country toward climate solutions today. As leaders, it's up to us to inspire others to make an impact.

 

Blessed Tomorrow

Thought for the day

 

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

 

Dakota proverb

General Assembly 2015
Plan to attend General Assembly this summer! Register by April 1st to receive the Early Bird Discount!

The youth and Disciple Women are teaming up to make sleeping mats for our brothers and sisters who are homeless by recycling plastic shopping bags. You can make "yarn" ahead of time to support their efforts with directions from this video. 


 

GA Local organizers are looking for donations of crochet and knitting needles (10+) as well as yarn. Donations may also be brought with you to General Assembly.


Click Here to get Green Tips for the Assembly!

Learn more about the Assembly on Facebook and on the SOAR website. 
Garden Time
Providence CC, Nicholasville, KY Children planting the garden
Spring, for those who live in areas with 4 seasons, means that winter is over and it is time to plant a garden. 

 

Locate Disciple's gardens, learn more about gardening, and tell us about your community garden at Return to the Garden 
Become a GC Ministry!
Many congregations already qualify to be a GC Congregation and simply need to apply.

STEPS: 

1. Have an active Green Team.

2. Sign the Alverna Covenant as a team or as a congregation. 

3. Make at least 3 changes that demonstrate your congregation's commitment to caring for God's creation. 

THEN e-mail the following information :  

1. Congregation name, City, State, address and phone number; 

2. the date the Alverna Covenant was signed;

3. and the changes made by your congregation to walk more gently on God's creation.

Green Chalice Ministries
Welcome to the family: 
Red Rock Christian Church, Boise, ID
Burgin Christian Church, Burgin, KY
Harbor Christian Church, Newport Beach, CA
Plymouth Creek Christian Church Plymouth, MN
First Christian Church, Houston, TX
First Christian Church, Torrance, CA

Green Chalice Congregations
Arlington Christian Church, Lexington, KY
Burgin Christian Church, Burgin, KY

Butler Christian Church, Butler, KY

Cairn Christian Church, Lafayette, CO
Central Christian Church, Lexington, KY

Central Christian Church, Marshalltown, IA

Central Woodward Christian Church, Troy, MI

Community Christian Church, Tempe, AZ  

Crestwood Christian Church, Lexington, KY 

Crestwood Christian Church, Lincoln, NE

Desert Dove Christian Church, Tucson, AZ  

Disciples Christian Church, Bartlesville, OK

Disciples Christian Church, Cleveland Heights, OH

Downey Avenue Christian Church, Indianapolis, IN

Edmond Trinity Christian Church, Edmond, OK.

Evergreen Christian Church, Athens, GA  

First Christian Church, Bardstown, KY  

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First Christian Church, Beaumont, TX 

First Christian Church, Bellingham, WA

First Christian Church, Carbondale, IL    

First Christian Church, Danville, KY

First Christian Church, Eugene, OR

First Christian Church, Farmville, NC  

First Christian Church, Frankfort, KY  

First Christian Church, Glasgow, KY  

First Christian Church, Harrisonville, MO

First Christian Church, Henderson, KY

First Christian Church, Houston, TX

First Christian Church, Leavenworth, KS

First Christian Church, Lexington, TX

First Christian Church, Little Rock, AR  

First Christian Church, Lynchburg, VA

First Christian Church, Mount Vernon, WA

First Christian Church, Ocala, FL 

First Christian Church, Owensboro, KY

First Christian Church, Paducah, KY 

First Christian Church, Paris, KY

First Christian Church, Pasadena, TX

First Christian Church, Puyallup, WA

First Christian Church, Rockwall, TX

First Christian Church, Torrance, CA

First Christian Church, West Palm Beach, FL  

Florence Christian Church/Harmony Place, KY

Harmony Springs Christian Church, Uniontown, OH

Harbor Christian Church, New Port Beach, CA

Heights Christian Church, Shaker Heights, OH

Hood River Valley Christian Church, Hood River, OR

Journey of Faith, Ann Arbor, MI  

Lake Washington Christian Church, Kirkland, WA

Lakewood Christian Church, Lakewood, OH   

Lee's Summit Christian Church, MO

Marshall Avenue Christian Church, Mattoon, IL 

Midway Christian Church, Midway, KY

Midway Hills Christian Church, Dallas, TX

Mt. Zion Christian Church, Richmond, KY

Nicholasville Christian Church, Nicholasville, KY 

North Christian Church, Fort Wayne, IN

Northside Christian Church, Knoxville, TN  

Norwalk Christian Church, Norwalk, IA

Plymouth Creek Christian Church, Plymouth, MN

Providence Christian Church, Nicholasville, KY

Red Rock Christian Church, Boise, ID

Ridglea Christian Church, Ft. Worth, TX

Saint Andrew Christian Church, Olathe, KS
Salvisa Christian Church, Salvisa, KY

Southern Hills Christian Church, Edmond, OK

Southside Christian Church, Kokomo, IN

South Street Christian Church, Springfield, MO

Sugarbush Christian Church, Guelp, Ontario

The Healing Cathedral Christian Church, Memphis, TN

Valley Christian Church, Birmingham, AL 

Waling Faith (Korean-Am) Christian Church, Sunnyvale, CA

Webster Groves Christian Church, Saint Louis, MO

White Oak Pond Christian Church, Richmond, KY 

Woodland Christian Church, Lexington, KY

15th Avenue Christian Church, Rock Island, IL

 

Green Chalice Ministries  

Christmount Retreat and Conference Center

Black Mountain, NC  

 

Green Chalice Regional Offices

Christian Church Capital Area 

 

CERTIFIED Green Chalice Congregations

Bridgeport Christian Church, Frankfort, KY

Christ Church Uniting, Kailua, Hawaii

Cynthiana Christian Church, Cynthiana, Kentucky  

Midway Christian Church, Midway, Kentucky

Salvisa Christian Church, Salvisa, Kentucky   

Sign your name

National Religious Partnership for the Environment invites us to add our names to a petition. Call on our political leaders to craft a moral global framework for the UN climate negotiations that will culminate in Paris 2015. Click here to sign the petition. Select "Disciples of Christ" as your religious affiliation. 

Happy Earth Day!


 

Rev. Carol Devine                

Minister for Green Chalice

 


 

Rev. Scott Hardin-Nieri

Associate Minister for Green Chalice
Contemplative Image by Rev. Chuck Summers

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes