Connecting to God's sacred creation in West Tennessee for service, advocacy, justice, and celebration 

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As West Tennesseeans who indeed feel a sacred connection with God’s creation here, we invite you to join us in caring for creation through a covenant of service, advocacy, justice, and celebration.

Together, we pledge to 

• Serve God’s creation by deepening our theological and biblical understandings of these issues and sharing these understandings with fellow children of God,
• Advocate for God’s creation in West Tennessee by speaking out and standing up for its just and proper stewardship,
• Join in the work for environmental justice among God’s people by becoming aware of and reacting to the particular environmental challenges that the poor, the vulnerable, and the disenfranchised face,
• Join in celebrating with God’s people the beauty of creation, the blessings of creation, and the promises of creation in our liturgical and social gatherings.  

A Prayer for the Conservation of Natural Resources:
Dear Heavenly Father, accept our thanks and praise for all that you have done for us. Joy to the world, the Lord is come.

We thank you for the splendor of the whole creation, for the beauty of this world, for the wonder of life, and for the mystery of love.  Let earth receive her King.

Thank you for the bounty of your gifts, for the beauty of your created world, and for the sustenance you provide us every day, both physical and spiritual. Let every heart prepare you room, and heaven and heaven and nature sing.

Thank you for giving us everything we need in such glorious abundance—from the air we breathe to the water we drink to the food put upon our tables. Joy to the world, the Savior reigns. 

Please forgive us for taking your creation for granted, and give us the strength and will to become better stewards of your blessings, to love your creation as much as you love us. While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

For the just and proper use of your creation, we pray especially for the restoration of the rivers of West Tennessee that receive your rainfall and renew our fragile water supply. Let these waters flow down like your righteousness. We pray for the remaining forests that cradle your life-giving waters, that they may glorify You, the creator of heaven and earth. And for the generations yet to come who will inherit only that which we conserve. This we pray through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.