Creation Care
Creation Care at BCC
Beginning in 2019 a small group of Bellingham Covenant Church people began exploring the paths followers of Christ can take to better care for God’s creation—our environment. Convinced that creation care (CC) is one of God’s great commissions to humankind (Genesis 1: 27-31), we continue to seek practical ways to better care for our planet and help our church community grow in “creation caring.”
Some of the activities the Creation Care Team has engaged in include:
Sponsoring Life Together (Sunday School) classes
Leading local hikes and educational field trips
Joining with community and other non-profit agencies doing environmental restoration projects
Maintaining an interpretive trail on church land
Hosting nature play dates for church youth and parents
Serving local refugees through ecology enrichment lessons
Sponsoring guest speakers and teachers
Visiting nearby creation care ministries north and south of the US/Canada border
Hosting book and movie discussions
It’s been exciting for us to learn more about what the Bible has to say about creation and how we are called by God to care for it. Fortunately, there are many wonderful people and resources on this topic both in our own community as well as around the world. We will try to keep this site up to date with links to what we consider some of the best information.
Volunteers help install meditation signs along the Discovery Trail on the north side of the BCC campus grounds.
In 2022 the CC team hosted four nature play dates that included lessons looking for arthropod life.
How BCC partners with other organizations
It’s our belief that we are most effective when we look for what God is already doing through others in our community, and work with them. For this reason, we are committed to:
Serve, whenever possible, alongside other organizations/individuals in our community
Serve low-income or marginalized populations where we have the opportunity
Help restore non-human creation through clean-ups, invasive plant removal, and other service projects
Provide our congregation with hands-on service opportunities, especially those that can engage our students and children
Provide links to creation care resources that can help our congregation grow in understanding what it means to be good stewards of God’s world
Next Steps
Contact
We invite you to join the BCC Creation Care community by signing up for our mailing list below. If you sign up you will receive occasional posts from our blog: Not Our World. In this blog, we post stories and links to stories on current environmental topics we think you will find interesting or important. We also provide tips on how to be better creation stewards and alerts to things going on in our community.
Also, look for opportunities to get involved with the Creation Care Community through the Events page, weekly BCC Next Steps emails, and Sunday church bulletin.
You can reach the Creation Care Team at any time by email, or face-to-face with any of our Team members (Nancy Lewis, Amy Keiper, Doreen Olson, Mark Olson, Mike Merchant, Heather Merchant). We love to talk about creation care!