Environment — Care of Creation

ELCA Churchwide Assembly Action CA95.05.26a

Passed by the 1995 Churchwide Assembly in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Resolved
To affirm the memorial of the Minneapolis Area Synod on Care of Creation;

To call upon congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to engage regularly in prayer related to the care of creation and to engage in at least one activity during the next year that publicly witnesses to the congregation’s commitment as a community of stewards of the environment; and

To call upon churchwide units to assist the congregations, synods, and related agencies and institutions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to implement the church’s "Social Statement on Caring for Creation: Vision, Hope, and Justice."