Creation Care Team
Jeff Hitz
jeffhitz@gmail.com
847-721-5515
The Creation Care Ministry exists to learn about and educate others of the importance to care for God’s creation, protecting our common home for the wellbeing of all, especially for future generations.
Our Values seek to address:
•Response to the Cry of the Earth is a call to protect our common home for the wellbeing of all, as we equitably address the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and ecological sustainability.
•Response to the Cry of the Poor is a call to promote eco-justice, aware that we are called to defend human life from conception to death, and all forms of life on Earth.
•Ecological Economics acknowledges that the economy is a sub-system of human society, which itself is embedded within the biosphere – our common home.
•Adoption of Sustainable Lifestyles is grounded in the idea of sufficiency and promoting sobriety in the use of resources and energy.
•Ecological Education is about rethinking and redesigning curricular and institutional reform in the spirit of integral ecology in order to foster ecological awareness and transformative action.
•Ecological Spirituality springs from a profound ecological conversion and helps us “discover God in all things,” in the beauty of creation, in the sighs of the sick, and in the groans of the afflicted, aware that the life of the spirit is not dissociated from worldly realities.
•Community Resilience and Empowerment envisage a synodal journey of community engagement and participatory action at various levels.
- Become part of our Creation Care Team. We meet monthly on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 10:30 AM.
- Be on the mailing list for the monthly agendas and minutes and provide feedback (and new ideas) by email, text, or phone
- Be available to assist with special events and programs as they are developed.
- Participate in programs currently being developed at the Archdiocese level (may require attendance at events in other locations or on evening Zoom calls).
Upcoming Events
SCUBA Spirit Camp Imagination Station was talking about litter in the ocean. Children found litter in the room and then talked about how fish sometimes ate litter thinking it was food and got sick or died. They talked about ocean currents, the importance of not littering, and how God wants us all to take care of our environment. In the photo are preschoolers and 2nd graders.