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More help is needed as we work to get this program underway. Please review the "how you can help" section below and contact Tracy Stebbins-Arnett in the north part of the state or Gail Bishop along the coast if you are interested in learning more.

How You Can Help

• Help create a database of volunteer opportunities for different interests and abilities. If you know of environmental agencies looking for volunteers, please reach out.
• Does anyone in your congregation work in the envrionmental field? Encourage them to contact us.
• Interested in creating educational and inspirational materials for use in our congregations? If you are aware of existing curriculum or liturgies or if you like to work on developing such materials, please let us know.
• Don't forget that you can invite an eco-region team member to speak to your congregation about this exciting new program.

Eco-Regions Featured in The Living Church

The Living Church magazine includes news and commentary from around The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. Enjoy this recent article on the Eco-Region Network.

Gulf Coast Creation Care has joined with Pollinator Pathways to offer GCCC members a chance to register their church and home gardens on the pollinator pathway map. Please use this link to log your garden and be counted as part of the Gulf Coast Creation Care pollinator movement!

Encourage your church to install a pollinator garden and invite all your friends to join the movement along the Gulf Coast. For more information from GCCC click here.

This month's meeting is August 6. Please join in the conversation!

Provinces IV and V

Monday, August 10

1 p.m. ET/12 p.m. CT

"Faith in Action Along Georgia’s Coast"

Clean Water and Sustainability

Beth Remmes, Coastal Outreach and Resilience Coordinator for Georgia Interfaith Power and Light, brings a lifelong commitment to environmental care and community resilience to her work along Georgia’s coast. Based in Richmond Hill, Beth supports Green Teams and faith communities as they take practical, hopeful action to care for creation and strengthen local responses to climate challenges.

With a Master of Science in Biomimicry from Arizona State University, Beth draws inspiration from nature’s wisdom and from the power of people working together. She serves on the Weavers Team for The Work That Reconnects Network and the Advisory Council of the Unity Earth Care Alliance, bringing deep experience in spiritual ecology, resilience, and environmental education to her role.

Through her work with congregations across Georgia’s 100-mile coast, Beth helps communities expand environmental action, build stronger Green Teams, and connect faith with meaningful care for the places they call home. Her leadership invites all of us to see resilience not only as a response to change, but as a shared practice rooted in hope, collaboration, and love for the Earth.

Celebrating the Season of Creation:

Resources for planning worship

with clergy or lay leadership

with The Rev. John Elliott Lein

Thursday, August 13 at 7:30pm ET/6:30pm CT

During the Season of Creation, we join with Christians around the world to celebrate in prayer and action our Gospel calling to protect the Earth that God entrusted to our care. Collecting prayers, readings, hymns, and liturgies created all over the global Anglican Communion and beyond, this anthology not only provides special liturgies for the season, but also suggests ways to expand our familiar Sunday liturgies and prayers so that they more accurately reflect the whole Gospel for the whole world.

In 2022, the Rev. John Elliott Lein (artist and priest in Downeast Maine) partnered with the Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas (Creation Care leader in Massachusetts) to assemble and present liturgical resources for this Season for the benefit of interested yet overwhelmed parish worship leaders. Year by year, contributions and diocesan endorsements have grown.

Join this deep dive to learn more about these resources and how they can work in your context!

The Rev. John Elliott Lein is a priest in two small rural parishes in Downeast Maine and lives with his family on an 1860s homestead that they have been rebuilding and populating with farm creatures over the last few years. The Celebration Guide he helped assemble for the Season of Creation is now in use all over the Church and internationally.

Monday, August 3

7:00 p.m. CT

Join Episcopalians across the Church for an evening of prayer and meditation. Register here to receive a monthly reminder, or simply join each month's session using the button below.

Episcopal Church Creation Care Monthly Call

Wednesday, August 26

2 p.m. CT

Join these calls to hear from The Episcopal Church’s public policy and witness and mission program teams, as well as voices from across the church, on issues related to care of creation. Spanish interpretation is available.

Deep Green Faith Workshop:

Rediscovering the Green Roots

of Christian Faith

August 15, 2026

On-site at St. Mary's Sewanee:

The Ayres Center for Spiritual Development

The Center for Deep Green Faith invites you to rediscover Christianity’s ecological roots in this transformative one-day workshop with Robin Gottfried and John Gatta. Drawing on monastic wisdom and contemplative practice, we’ll explore how growth in virtue includes our relationship with all creation. Together we’ll examine how core Christian doctrines ground our care for the earth, moving environmental concern from the margins to the center of faithful living. 



Experience how deepening your connection with creation deepens your connection with God.

Teachers: John Gatta is Emeritus Professor of English both at the University of Connecticut and at Sewanee, where he has also served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Robin Gottfried is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Founding Director (Retired) of the Center for Religion and Environment, the University of the South. Learn more about the workshop and your instructors.

Celebrate the Season of Creation with faith leaders for 6 lunchtime screenings of Blessed Tomorrow's film series Caring for the Earth: Stories from Faith Communities.



• 45 Minute Virtual Luncheon Film Screenings
• Wednesdays from September 2nd through October 7th 
• 2:00 pm- 2:45 pm EST/ 11:00 am-11:45 am PST

Created for pastors and faith leaders of all ages. We will watch each 20 minute film together over the six weeks, and hear directly from the powerful faith leaders featured in the films.

This is a 7-part film series for congregations to build knowledge, have deep discussions, and then engage in creation care and climate solutions. The series highlights over 30 powerful voices of Christian, Muslim, Indigenous, Baha’i, and Jewish faith leaders from 14 states including clergy, youth leaders, and interfaith organizers, who are leading with hope, compassion, and courage. They share inspiring stories and hope for our shared future. 

For more information, contact

DioMS Creation Care at

tracy.stebbins@gmail.com