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Want to share an informative flyer about Green Chalice? Here is a front and back one-pager flyer that you can download to share with your congregation, small group, or anyone interested in Green Chalice.
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This resource is designed to assist clergy, lay leaders, church staff, affinity groups, and more in creating or reflecting on their congregational identity through their guiding statements and images. In addition, this resource offers a Bible study lesson, reflective questions, and more that can help congregants study and reflect on the foundational questions of who God is calling them to be and do in their local context. Grab some coffee, snacks, and invite a few folks from your community of faith or surrounding neighborhood for a conversation that can be life-changing your ministry or the organization or institution you care deeply about.
Want to share an informative flyer about DHM’s C.A.R.E. team? Here is a front and back one-pager flyer that you can download to share with your congregation, small group, or anyone interested in the C.A.R.E. ministry.
In this video from the “Let’s Talk About…” series, Rev. Carol Devine (Co-Minister for Green Chalice and Director of Blessed Tomorrow) talks about the “Green Snowball” strategy for using the cost savings from green energy solutions to fund further green energy solutions for congregations.
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At Green Chalice Our mission is to connect Christian faith, spiritual practice and creation consciousness in order to demonstrate the fullness of God’s shalom. Out of our call to “do justice” (Micah 6:8), we strive to demonstrate the fullness of God’s shalom through living out our faith by caring for God’s creation. In keeping with this demonstration, a resolution concerning carbon neutrality was passed at the 2017 General Assembly. From Hawaii and Washington to Ontario and Florida, and everywhere in between, Disciples congregations are caring for creation in unique and inspiring ways.
Justice and Advocacy Ministries empowers Disciples to use our voices and our actions to promote greater justice and mercy in the world. Disciples Home Missions seeks to bring a coordinated approach to influencing the church’s work for justice with a focus on three key areas: 1) Refugee & Immigration Ministries; 2) Racial Justice; 3) Environmental Justice.
Presentations from Green Chalice churches, Ambassadors, and Justice and Creation Fellows. Each of these gatherings include inspirational wisdom from people and communities around our denomination.
Green Chalice Gathering Oct. 2, 2025– Highlighting 2025 Justice and Creation Summer Fellows from Camp Crystal, First Christian Church in Fullerton, CA and St. Pauls Christian Church in Cary, NC.
Green Chalice Gathering Feb. 20, 2025- Featuring Green Chalice Ambassadors: Apostle Sharyn Cosby with National Convocation and Yoli Barragan with Obra Hispana. and Rob Morris, E.D. of Christmount Christian Assembly shares impacts and responses to Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina.
Green Chalice Gathering April 23, 2024– With Sharing from First Christian Church Princeton, Kentucky, Brentwood Christian Church, Kansas State University Ecumenical Christian Ministry and Camp Caroline in North Carolina
Green Chalice Gathering Jan. 2024- Featuring University Christian Church in Hyattsville, Maryland, Cypress Creek Christian Church, and The Woodlands Christian Church in East Texas.
Green Chalice Gathering June 6, 2023–Featuring wisdom and insights from Mission Hills Christian Church in Los Angeles (Carbon Neutral!), Christmount Christian Assembly, Black Mountain, NC and Highland Park Christian Church, Des Moines, Iowa.
Green Chalice Gathering, Jan. 2023 – Apostle Sharyn Cosby, In the Spirit Christian Church, Oklahoma https://inthespiritcc.org/ Rev. Rebecca Sundquist, First Christian Church, Highland, Indiana & Seeds of Hope Garden and Farm https://www.fcchighland.net/ Cathy Cralle Jones, St. Paul’s Christian Church in Raleigh, NC https://www.stpauls.net/
Pathway to Blessing is a three-part series designed to help men explore what it means to live faithfully, authentically, and courageously in today’s world. Each eight-session study creates a safe space for honest conversation, reflection, and spiritual practice rooted in Scripture. The studies can be adapted for local congregations, online groups, or cohort opportunities. These studies enable men to connect their faith to life, live in community across generations, and take concrete steps to bless others.
Each volume contains a leader’s guide, weekly discussion prompts, spiritual practices, and “outside-the-walls” actions, because true discipleship happens beyond the meeting time.
Foundational Ancestors: Stories that ground our faith, identity, and purpose:
The first set of studies in the series guides men through a study of eight formative figures, from the first breath of Adam to Joseph’s far-reaching vision. Each lesson reveals how God establishes identity, calls us to integrity, builds covenant community, leads us toward transformation, and equips us to bless others. Participants engage Scripture, honest conversation, and weekly action prompts to carry faith beyond the meeting space. Used by small groups or as a regional cohort, this study will help men discover bedrock truths about who they are, whose they are, and why their ordinary lives still belong in God’s unfolding promise.
Pathway to Blessing is ideal for: New or renewing groups seeking a strong spiritual foundation and a shared purpose, or well-established groups who long to build deeper connections and grow in faith and mission.
“Hey, Imago Dei!” is an intergenerational experience guide for churches and families to widen the gaze of children, so that they may see God in a vast number of ways all around them.
On September 22, 268 faith-based, non-governmental, and other civil society organizations joined a letter calling on UN Member States to “uphold, preserve, strengthen, and celebrate international refugee, human rights, and humanitarian treaties and reject efforts to undo or undermine legal norms.”
Education, Conversations and Community Resources As extreme heat events become increasingly frequent and dangerous, faith communities are called to respond with both compassion and action. Community leaders and local experts shared vital information and seeds for ministry during an online Green Chalice gathering on Sept. 3rd. The video can be viewed solo, as a congregation or green team. We heard from Rev. Katie Sexton, Director of the Arizona Faith Network, Dr. Eugene Livar, Arizona’s first Chief Heat Officer, Arene Rushdan, Community Resilience Program Manager at the Arizona Faith Network Rev. Dr. Job Cobos, Pastor at Larkspur Christian Church. You can view the recording here. https://youtu.be/RbkiF0wFJfw
This resource is based on a gathering with Green Chalice collaborators in 2025. The resources below can be used independently or paired with the recording of this conversation here.
EDUCATION Template for Class or discussion
Extreme Heat: Community Needs and Faithful Responses
Education, Conversations and Community Resources
Overview
As extreme heat events become increasingly frequent and dangerous, faith communities are called to respond with both compassion and action. This 30-90 minute resource explores the sources, impacts, and responses to extreme heat for faith communities. It can be used in Sunday School classes, community groups, or Green Team meetings. This can be used with or without the webinar regarding linked below. Video Resource: View the recording here You can find a PDF version of this Class Here.
Featured Speakers from webinar
Facilitator Guidelines
Suggested Schedule
1. Opening Prayer (5 minutes)
2. Check-in (10-15 minutes)
Every person should have an opportunity to speak briefly without interruption. Use full group sharing or the 1-3-All method ( 1- write a response in solitude, 3-share responses with two other people then briefly share summaries with the whole group).
Option 1: Share what is bringing you life these days
Option 2: Grief and Gratitude Practice
3. Bible Exploration (15-20 minutes)
Scripture: Matthew 22:34-40 (Read together or invite different readers for each verse)
When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, an expert in the law, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
Reflection: Before exploring the response from Jesus in verse 37 ponder the question. “Which commandment in the law is the greatest?” Even though the religious elite were coming together to challenge Jesus in the previous texts, he did not shy away from helping those gathered to prioritize certain behaviors and practices. Among the vast ways to follow commandments, Jesus combined historic wisdom from the Hebrew texts of Deuteronomy and Leviticus to help people prioritize what is great and first among so many options. How can you and your congregation prioritize from among the many good options regarding following Jesus?
Look at verse 37 and 39 for hints. Today with so many options for how we receive and share information, spend money, choose and gather with friends and how we act we can hear echoes from Jesus saying “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ and ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
4. Watch Extreme Heat Webinar (Optional – 60 minutes)
5. Reflection Questions (20-30 minutes)Consider using the 1-3-All method again
Personal and Congregational Discernment
Faith and Community
Extreme Heat Responses
6. Benediction: Invite each person to share one word that represents what they are carrying forth with them from the gathering.
7. Closing Prayer
News Highlights and Resources from Arizona Faith Network Ministries
News Video Glendale residents can cool down at respite centers,
News Video Glendale Respite Centers
News Video Cooling centers offer refuge and employment during extreme heat
AZ Faith Network 2023 – Program Spotlight – Heat Relief
Guidebooks
Arizona Faith Network- Heat Relief Guidebook
AZ Faith Network- Heat Relief Overview
Extreme Heat Resources-The resources below can be found on the One Home One Future Website Here.
Videos
More Preparedness Resources
The Godmothers of the Disappeared have gathered every Tuesday for months now.
On Tuesday August 19, 2025 I was blessed to be with them at the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles for their weekly Godmothers of the Disappeared Vigil.
They have been gathering at 300 Los Angeles Street to bear witness against the escalating attacks on immigrants. These attacks have grown into a full blown crisis where ICE agents abduct community members and detain people, often without due process, without access to lawyers or meaningful communication with their families.
The organizers of this local event are now working to build out similar Godmothers of the Disappeared Vigils in cities all over the United States. Click the “Download” button to see the “Toolkit for Action” that can fully equip you and your community to host an Vigil.
In setting the context for their prophetic witness, the Godmothers of the Disappeared describe the work like this:
As organizers, we are students of history and learn from the legacy of prophetic witness of those who came before us. In 1982, mothers and their supporters in Argentina, whose loved ones had been taken away by a military dictatorship, began a weekly vigil in the Plaza de Mayo, asking for the disappeared to be returned alive. We continue that tradition in response to the current taking away of asylum seekers and other immigrants without due process and without letting their families know where they are.
Now, amid the ICE raids and militarization in Los Angeles, every Tuesday at noon, women faith leaders and supporters have gathered in front of the Federal Building wearing pink bandanas and holding daisies and other flowers – symbols of peace, resistance, and remembrance.
We are the Godmothers of the Disappeared, and now we’re calling on Mothers and Godmothers and all those who are willing to stand in solidarity with immigrants across the country to take action.
Holding daisies, processing around the Federal Building (which houses an ICE Office, Immigration Courthouse, and a Detention Center, among other federal agencies) the vigil leaders give testimony about those who have been taken from their community. On this day (and every Tuesday) we sing, we pray, we demand the release of those being abducted, detained, deported, and disappeared by the US Government, and we urge ICE agents and other officials to stop participating in the persecution of immigrants. The vigil ends with the same ritual every week — those in attendance gather in a circle and then one by one lay down their flower, offer a silent word of personal prayer, and then rejoin the circle of those committed to working for justice.
The Vigil began months ago with five people praying together outside the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles. On the late August day that I was there over 100 people took part in the vigil. This is holy work; faithful and committed, powerful and empowering.
As the vigil has grown here in Los Angeles, the organizers are hoping that it will grow across the country. They are inviting you and your community to consider holding a similar event. They have prepared a Toolkit so that you will not have to be starting from scratch or have to re-invent the wheel. The toolkit includes:
Find the complete toolkit for the Godmothers of the Disappeared Vigil here:
bit.ly/GodmothersofDisappeared
peace,
Rev. Brian Frederick-Gray
Director for Justice & Advocacy Ministries
Disciples Home Missions
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Resource materials to approach rebuilding community through healing lessons from nature.
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