Earth Day

Last Sunday our church celebrated Earth Day with a theme of "Celebrating and Caring for God's Creation". The 5th grade Sunday School class prepared a Powerpoint presentation about the environmental impact of plastic bags.

Earth - the movie

Disney will celebrate Earth Day 2009 (April 22) with the debut of Earth , the first feature-length documentary from their Disneynature division. It definitely looks like a film to see on the big screen.

Earth Day Sunday

Yesterday our church had a special Earth Day Sunday service. This year's theme was "Celebrating God' Earth". The music, litany, prayer and sermon all came together for a very meaningful service.

This year we asked church members to submit photos which reflected God's creation. Here is a slide show of those photos.

Protecting Our Water

UMC.org has an interesting video story of an Earth Day project. Methodist churches across northern Michigan set up collection sites for people to bring their outdated and unwanted pharmaceuticals.

The impetus for this program was a U.S. Geological Survey study that sampled 139 streams in 30 states and found 80 percent of them contaminated with trace amounts of chemicals commonly found in prescription drugs.



"The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse."

- Aldo Leopold (1886-1948),
Sand County Almanac.

Earth Day

This photo of "Earthrise" taken by Apollo 8 astronaut, William A. Anders, December 24, 1968, showed Earth for the first time as it appears from deep space. It gave a new global perspective to the modern environmental movement which was born on that first Earth Day in 1970. Nature photographer Galen Rowell has described this image as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken".

Earth Day started out as a secular event but more and more the religious communities are using it to mark awareness of the environment and God's creation. With Earth Day falling on a Sunday this year it allows for even more emphasis in churches everywhere.

the environment is 24/7

"Everyday is Earth Day"