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  • MISSION
    • Mission Overview
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    • Local Outreach >
      • Blood Drive
      • Emergency Assistance
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      • Front Porch Alliance
      • Homelessness Ministries >
        • Habitat for Humanity
        • Hillcrest Transitional Housing
      • Hunger Ministries >
        • Community Garden
        • Cross-Lines Kitchen
        • Food Pantry - Clothes Closet
        • Johnson County Home Delivered Meals
      • KC CARE Clinic
      • Literacy Initiatives
      • Mission Sewing
    • Immigration & Refugees
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      • Global Village
      • Border
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ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION


The mission of the Environmental Action Committee (EAC) of Village Church is to be a bold witness by advocating environmental justice for all creation. We are committed to making Village Church more environmentally aware and sustainable as an institution by reducing its environmental impact and by practicing, modeling and teaching faithful and responsible stewardship of God's Creation.  Our call is to promote earth-keeping within and beyond the walls of our church.  Our hope is to raise people’s awareness and to stir their conscience so that they might incorporate creation care into their daily living.

Throughout the year, EAC oversees the ongoing recycling efforts of the church and offers environmental education opportunities through Village U, Sunday school classes and displays.
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Under the leadership of EAC, Village Church has been certified for 12 consecutive years as an Earth Care Congregation. Earth Care Congregations is a program sponsored by PC(USA)'s Department of Environmental Ministries. Certification means our church is one of over 200 Presbyterian Churches nationally that have integrated environmental practices and thinking into its church life by completing projects and activities in the four fields of worship, education, facilities and outreach.  The purpose of this program is to inspire churches to care for God’s earth in a holistic way by incorporating earth care into their mission and ministry.
​CLICK HERE for a listing of Village Church Environmental Initiatives and Awards. 

environmental care resources

Make a difference in Kansas City, educate yourself, and see what others are doing locally to support the environment! Check out our environmental care resources page.
environmental care resources

JOIN US

​The Environmental Action Committee welcomes your participation. We are always looking for new members to join our committee as well as volunteers to help with activities and events.  We typically meet at 7 p.m. the second Tuesday of every  month at the church.  Contact Jerry Rees or Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka for more information or to learn how you can get involved.

earth care awareness week at village church
oct. 24-31, 2021

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Songs were sung, prayers were prayed, liturgy was spoken, a class was taught, Climate Change Matters tote bags were handed out, and earth care sermons focusing on climate change were preached:
  1. Rev. Tom Are preached Dry Land from the Waters at all services on Oct. 24.
  2. Rev. Zach Walker preached Aliens and Tenants in the Mission Campus Sanctuary during the morning services on Oct. 31.
  3. Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka preached You Pick What You Plant in the Antioch Campus Sanctuary during the morning service on Oct. 31.
  4. Rev. Hallie Hottle peached To Dwell Among at The Gathering in the afternoon on Oct. 31.

Click here to watch video recordings of sermons 1, 2, and 4.

Climate Change Matters banners (pictured above) were displayed on the lawns at our Mission and Antioch Campuses.

PROJECTS


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monarch waystation

Click here to read more about our monarch waystation project at 99th and Mission Rd.
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solar panels

Click here to read more about our solar panel project at the Child & Family Development Center at 99th St & Mission Rd.

RESOURCES


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for earth day & beyond

Celebrate Earth Day and join the Environmental Action Committee by doing any or all of 12 suggested actions. You can also watch our video series, "Creation Care as a Matter of Faith."
12 action steps

FOR LENT & BEYOND

For those who observe the season of Lent and care about creation, the Environmental Action Committee suggests reading the 2022 Tread Lightly for Lent daily calendar that provides daily reflections and actions during Lent.

  • 2022 Tread Lightly for Lent Daily Calendar
  • Take the Lenten Meal Pledge 
  • Vegetarian Recipes for Lent from Becky Bliss
  • Other Vegetarian Recipes for Lent 

EARTH CARE REFERENCES

  • Rev. Dr. Ruth Rosell presentation “The Urgency of the Climate Crisis: Responding as People of Faith” (Jan. 17, 2022). Dr. Rosell is director of the Buttry Center for Peace & Nonviolence at Central Baptist Seminary. View accompanying slideshow presentation here.
  • Rev. Dr. Bob Meneilly sermon "Restoring God's Creation" (Village Church, April 22, 1990) audio;​ sermon transcript
  • Rev. Dr. Bob Meneilly sermon "Restoring God’s Creation” (Village Church, Jan. 27, 1991)
  • Rev. Dr. Bob Meneilly sermon "Saving God's Good Earth" (Village Church, June 14, 1992) audio; sermon transcript
  • ​Rev. Tom Are sermon Earth Day 2021 (Village Church Earth Sunday Gathering Service, April 25, 2021)
  • Rev. Dr. Bill Brown Lectures Just Creation: Shalom for our Common Home (Village Church, April 9 and 10, 2021 on Zoom)
  • Rev. Hallie Hottle Earth Day Gathering Service (Village Church, April 19, 2020)
  • Rev. Tom Are sermon The Earth is the Lord’s (a Word about Climate Change (Village Church, Feb. 10, 2019)
  • Rev. Tom Are sermon Meeting the World at My Dinner Table (Village Church, Nov. 24, 2013)
  • Pastor Adam Hamilton sermon What Would Jesus Say About Climate Change? (Church of the Resurrection, Jan. 26, 2020)
  • Dr. Katherine Hayhoe: Christianity and Climate Crisis and Global Weirding with Katherine Hayhoe

faith-based environmental websites

  • Sustainable Sanctuary Coalition of Greater KC
  • Earthkeepers of Heartland Presbytery
  • Presbyterians for Earth Care
  • PC(USA) Environmental Ministries
  • ​Greenfaith
  • Creation Justice Ministries
  • Eco-Justice Ministries
  • Water: Sacred and Profaned is a beautiful and inspiring 27-minute video with amazing images, music, and poetry about the sacredness of water.  It features six men and women who share their experiences and insights about water.
  • The daily average CO2 concentration at Mauna Loa in Hawaii
    "The last time CO2 was this high, modern humans did not exist.  The time lag between CO2 emission and their pollution and warming effect is around 50 years, and whatever changes we observe now are only the tip of the iceberg.”  — Owen Mulhern

PC(USA) Overture 08-06: The Earth is the Lord’s

In June 2018, in response to the accelerating environmental crisis threatening God’s People and God’s Creation, PC(USA)'s 223rd General Assembly (2018) unanimously approved Overture 08-06 entitled The Earth is the Lord’s—Not Ours to Ruin: Priorities for a New Moral Era.  With this Overture, the national leadership was calling upon the whole church to raise its prophetic voice on the urgent issue of climate change and to participate in healing the earth, our home and God’s gift for the future of all life.  More specifically, it calls for the clergy to accept the mantle of moral leadership and to speak from the pulpits what must be done.  CLICK HERE to read this Overture. 
 
Energized by this overture, the Environmental Action Committee decided to promote this Overture, making it its major initiative and focus for the foreseeable future.  EAC called upon Village Church to join the national church in its call to prayer and action to initiate a new moral era.
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Jerry Rees
Email
913-568-4250

Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka
Senior Associate Pastor and Director of Adult Faith Formation
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913-671-2323
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