An Ecumenical Endeavor We seek to serve the whole church by providing resources for Christian worship that promotes love of and care for God's creation. Purpose History Mission
We believe that care for creation should be integral to the life and witness of Christian communities. Our worship should seek to bring us not only into right relationship with God and our fellow humans but also with the rest of creation. For that reason, we seek to provide resources that bring the celebration of and the care for creation into the liturgical practices of congregations.
Staff Director, Nick Utphall, Pastor, Advent Lutheran Church/Madison Christian Community, Madison, WI. I am a pastor for a great ecumenical congregation
Susan Zencka, Pastor, Frame Memorial Presbytrian Church, Stevens Point, WI. I have a B.A. in Humanities from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, and and M.Div. from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, IL and also earned an MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago majoring in Accounting and Economics. I was a CPA for 10 years before entering seminary. I am co-founder of the Interfaith Community for the Earth (ICE) in Stevens Point. I am currently working on my D.Min. through the Association of Chicago Theological Schools at Chicago. A particular passion of mine is the Season of Creation, and our church has celebrated it for 6 weeks each year since 2006. suzzencka@gmail.com Alydia Smith, Program Coordinator of Worship, Music and Spirituality for the United Church of Canada. I have worked as an Educator and Pastor, working as a Learning Strategist in three universities and serving two urban United Church of Canada congregations. I am delighted to help provide worship resources that celebrate and support the care of creation. asmith@united-church.ca Leah D. Schade, Assistant Professor of Preaching and Worship at Lexington Theological Seminary (KY). I received my PhD with a dissertation on eco-justice preaching and have served as an ordained Lutheran minister (ELCA). I am the author of the book Creation Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology and the Pulpit and continue blogging at EcoPreacher. lschade@ltsp.edu David Rhoads, Director, Lutherans Restoring Creation. I am a retired professor of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. I have been working on ecological issues from a religious perspective for about 25 years, founding the Green Zone at the seminary, developing the Web of Creation (www.webofcreation.org) and the Green Congregation Program, and editing Earth and Word: Classic Sermons on Saving the Planet (Continuum, 2007) and (with Norman Habel and Paul Santmire) The Season of Creation: A Preaching Commentary (Fortress, 2011). drhoads@lstc.edu We invite you to join us as friends and participants in this endeavor.
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Web of Creation
David Rhoads, Director. drhoads@lstc.edu
Location Let All Creation Praise
c/o David Rhoads
1436 Park Avenue Racine, WI 53403 |