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Suggestions for Using Climate Change Booklets X Use as a resource for Laudato Si, encyclical of Pope Francis X Create an adult education program using the booklets X Use with a parish or community small group during a liturgical season
X Use the process as a follow up to JustFaith, RCIA, or other program where a community has been formed
X Gather a cross-generational group to share the process
Session Titles:1. Our Earth Community2. The Science of Climate Change:
Call to Change Course3. Ecological Conversion4. Eco-Imagining Our Emerging
Future
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Six Session Processfor Faith Communities
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Climate Change:Our Call to ConversionA Four-Session Process for Faith Communities
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Call to Change Course
Reading: Climate Change Sermon, Reverend Tom VandeStadt, p.21
ThemeClimate change is a global issue that affects all of creation. Finding solutions requires the knowledge of science, the hope of faith and the leadership of all.
Opening Prayer(15 minutes)Setting: Put on the ritual table a cloth, a pitcher of water and a bowl.Reader: God of light and shadow,You have gifted us a holy ground,a sacred place,where fire and ice, storm and shelter,quiet, and crashing turbulence, meet.Your divine energy constantly imagines and shares, pours out life, splashes,bubbles and overflowsinto dreams and visions, newness and birth,silence, peace and appreciation.Grant us God, the capacity to wonder,to stand in awe,and to seek you in the silence of your gentleness.
—Seeds of Hope, Linda JonesLeader: As we explore climate change, we stand in awe of the possibilities for renewing all of God’s creation. Let’s take a moment of quiet to consider a hope you bring to our gathering. After the quiet I will invite sharing.(pause)Leader: I invite you to briefly share a hope you have for our gathering on climate change. As you share, pour water into our bowl. Water represents the gift of life that permeates all of creation which we yearn to protect.
Large Group Discussion(20 minutes)Leader: Let’s take a few moments of quiet to reflect on Tom VandeStadt’s sermon and the questions. Then we’ll have a discussion.
“In a nutshell, scientists are certain that climate change is occurring, and that human activity is the chief contributor to climate change, particularly the burning of fossil fuels.”
W Where do I find myself on the spectrum of certainty and uncertainty regarding the science and the possible effects of climate change?
“Of all the effects of climate change, I find the projected number of displaced people to be particularly alarming…The International Organization for Migration estimates that by itself, climate change could create an additional 25 million to 1 billion displaced people by 2050…This’ll be massive displacement happening all over the world simultaneously in desperate and disorderly fashion. Where on earth will all these desperate people go?”
W What is my reaction to the displacement of people caused by climate change?
W “How will the nations who contributed far more to climate change respond to the plight of these people? Will our nation...welcome them as they look for somewhere else on earth to live?”
Break (10 minutes)
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