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Environmental Stewardship Commission
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Episcopal Church in Minnesota
 
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Upcoming Activities:

Next Meeting:

We meet quarterly close to the solstice and equinox.

Annual Special Projects

Resolutions:

Resolution on the Spirituality of Food Production

Resolution on Church Buildings and Grounds

Resolution on Creation Season
Resolution on Green Congregations

 

 

Creation Season 2008 (Year A)
October 5 – 26, 2008

Proper 23, Year A
(October 12, 2008)

Special Recognition of the Place of Food in our Lives:
Food as Community

Welcome! We're glad you're planning on observing a liturgical season of creation. We have prepared some materials for you to use in worship, teaching, and personal reflection for this Sunday.

The list of Creation Season resources below is designed to help you find additional information that can apply to the food themes of this Sunday for use in sermon preparation and Religious Education activities of all ages and in sermon preparation.

Materials for this week' study

Caring and Working: An Agrarian Perspective by Norman Wirzba (Christian Century, September 22-29, 1999)
How can Christians be responsible caretakers of the earth if they are not familiar with farming practices? Farming is not simply about food production. Farming is a way of being…
Available Online.

The Spirituality of Potluck and Eating Together by Jill Peterman (from Reflections on the Spirituality of Food Production)

 

Eucharistic Prayer Suggestions

 

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Note: The List of additional resources was prepared by the Rev Wanda Copeland, the Rev Dcn Helen B. Hanten, and Jill Peterman.

 

We welcome your comments. Please address your comments or additional reflections to any MEESC member, or mail them to:


MEESC
c/o C. Morello
4451 Lakeside Drive
Eveleth, MN 55743-4400 USA

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