National Faith + Climate Forum 2026

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Faith in Action: Recommendations from the National Faith + Climate Forum 2024

The National Faith + Climate Forum brought together over 1,400 participants over 515 congregations across 70 host locations and online in the United States and beyond, representing more than 20 denominations and faith traditions, each committed to impactful actions that nurture the earth and advocate for justice.

To keep the momentum and help advance those commitments, we offer this action plan. It serves as a guide to support you as faith leaders and congregations to actively engage in creation care and climate justice, turning collective commitments into meaningful actions. And, it contains the resources shared in the Forum!

ecoAmerica and Blessed Tomorrow are here to support your creation care and climate action efforts.
A full list of resources shared at the Forum is included below.

Recommended Actions

  1. Deepen Learning + Connection
    • Take the Blessed Tomorrow Climate Ambassador Training to gain foundational climate knowledge and communication skills essential for promoting environmental stewardship within your congregation and community. This training is suitable for youth aged 13 and older. Customized versions of the training are available, including options in Spanish and a specialized version designed for clergy.
    • Learn how to incorporate creation care and climate justice into your sermons and educational programming. Use the 5 Steps to Effective Climate Communication  and Introduction to Climate Justice to craft impactful climate talks and to guide your sermons to resonate with your congregation. 
    • Participate in One Home One Future to access a wealth of educational resources (English + Spanish), programs, and a supportive online community.
  2. Elevate your Visible Leadership
    • Lead a creation care worship service. Incorporate creation care and climate justice into liturgies, prayers, and sermons. 
    • Start or expand a creation care team: Make a creation care plan with goals and next steps. Start with small, easily achievable goals and build on your successes. Connect with your denomination’s creation care program.
    • Model caring for creation visibly by greening your current practices throughout your daily life and ministry. 
    • Get outside and celebrate the sacredness of creation. It is important for your mental, physical, and spiritual health (Guide for Faith Leaders) 
    • Center and support youth in all your creation care work. 
    • Share your actions with your congregation, denomination, and the wider community through newsletters, social media, and in conversations.
  3. Increase Resilience + Preparedness
    • Create a Disaster Preparedness Plan for your congregation. In collaboration with the congregation’s leadership, organize a team to lead the work to create the plan. Visit Week of Compassion’s How to Prepare for a Disaster webpage for resources. 
    • Make a list of preparedness actions to take that should include: reviewing  the congregation’s insurance plan, gathering emergency supplies, knowing how to turn off utilities, having a congregational contact plan, having copies of documents offsite, and more. Preparedness Checklist here.
    • Educate the congregation on the plan and encourage other faith leaders to learn from and model your process. Keep your Disaster Plan and important documents in a clearly marked and visible place for easy access.
  4. Restore Healthy Creation
  5. Collaborate Community-Wide*
    • Build partnerships with other congregations, local organizations, and interfaith groups to strengthen your community.
    • Strengthen ties and promote active participation in environmental initiatives by organizing initiatives such as hosting programs, tabling at events, or speaking at community gatherings. Focus on addressing specific needs like food justice and green infrastructure to create impactful opportunities for creation care beyond the walls of your house of worship.

*If you are already or have an idea for collaborating with other congregations or organizations in your community to expand engagement and action on creation care, climate justice, or solutions, you may be eligible for a kickstarter grant if you apply by June 1st.

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