Our Story and Web of Connection

Our Creation Care Story

Our journey into intentional creation care as a congregation began in the summer of 2016. Six years into that journey, we were asked to share our story as a representative church from the United States at Mennonite World Conference’s July 2022 Global Assembly. View the 10-minute presentation and accompanying slides.

Our web of Creation Care Connection

We are connected to, encouraged by, resourced from, and participate in work happening within several other broader creation care focused groups affiliated with the Mennonite Church. Engagement with them inspires and supports our actions of peace making through creation care.

• MC USA Climate Justice Ministries (formerly Mennonite Creation Care Network)
• Anabaptist Climate Collaborative

Our Taftsville Chapel’s creation care liaison is Heather Wolfe, linking our congregation to MCCN and now MC USA.

We scored a silver leaf in our baseline Greener Congregation Stewardship Score in September 2016. This assessed creation care across all aspects of our church life. Details from that assessment can be found in the Stewardship Scoresheet.

From this Stewardship Score we created a yearlong Comprehensive Creation Care Plan.