Stewardship & Mission
Stewardship, Why the Church Needs Some Money
Let the Children Give, Time, Talents, Love, and Money by Delia Halverson
Stewardship & Creation Care
Climate Justice with and for Children and Youth in Churches Get Informed, Get Inspired, Take Action from the World Council of Churches. This toolkit provides resources for churches, church-run schools, and summer camps to support intergenerational climate and environmental justice and promote care for children by stopping further global warming.
It is Easy Being Green!: Bible Stories and Crafts with the Earth in Mind by LeeDell Stickler
What's So Amazing About Polar Bears? Teaching Kids to Care for Creation
Living Waters for the World trains and equips church mission groups and others to share the gift of clean water with communities in need. (Includes VBS)
Medium is an online publishing platform. The platform is an example of social journalism, having a hybrid collection of amateur and professional people and publications, or exclusive blogs or publishers on Medium, and is regularly regarded as a blog host.Here you will find an essay by Ian Mevorach "Creation Justice and God's All-Encompassing Love."
Creation Justice Ministries (formerly the National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Program) represents the creation care and environmental justice policies of major Christian denominations throughout the United States. We work in cooperation with 38 national faith bodies including Protestant denominations and Orthodox communions as well as regional faith groups, and congregants to protect and restore God's Creation. Here you will find 52 Ways to Care for Creation among other activities and discussions.
Web of Creation Ecology resources to transform Faith Communities and Society
Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Here you will find a lesson plan for older children/middle school around "Analyzing Environmental Justice."
NAACP vision of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race. Here you will fine "Teaching Intersectionality and Environmental Justice in Our Classrooms" and other environmental justice resources.
Lesson Planet is passionate about creating and delivering innovative digital tools and quality educational resources to help personalize student learning and inspire great teaching. Here you will find environmental justice teacher resources.
Learning to Give provides quality, teacher-written lessons and resources to help K-12 teachers educate, equip and empower their students to be giving and caring citizens. Here you will find an "Environmental Justice Toolkit."
Kids to Kids: This Disciples of Christ program helps give kids the ability to help other kids who need it and respond to current events that may see on the news. Check out VBS options as well.
Stewardship as Educational Learning Opportunities
Kid Cultivators (Melvin Bray): "WE GROW KIDS by involving them in the ancient sustainable practices of gardening, homeschooling, storytelling, neighboring and provisioning."
Citizen Kid Central: "A collection of books that inform children about the world and inspire them to be better global citizens. The collection aims to make complex global issues accessible for children ages 8 to 12, and covers topics such as water conservation, biodiversity, food security, microlending, citizenship, global awareness and more."
THE CARNIVAL DE RESISTANCE: "is a traveling arts carnival, village demonstration project, and school for cultural transformation that first launched in the fall of 2013."
Smart Money Smart Kids by Dave Ramsey and Rachel Cruze
Stewardship in the Church (Click here)
Stewardship in the Home (Click here)
Stewardship and Crafts (Click here)
Mission Trips and Outreach (Click here)
Denominational Support
This page was last updated by OU 8/14