Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Presbyterians for Earth Care - CANOPY Webinar This Week + Solstice Service

WEBINAR THIS THURSDAY:

Thinking Environmentally with Presbyterian Young Adults

Environmental justice is an activating and vital issue for young people considering their futures on this planet. Some of these folks have come together as the Creation Action Network of Presbyterian Young Adults. Let’s hear what they have to say! Learn about this new space; come think with and alongside people ages 18-35 doing faith-based activism. Hear about the environmental justice issues that are close to the heart of this group, and explore some of the theological underpinnings motivating their work.

WEBINAR DATE: Thursday, December 4, 2025
Time: 7:30 pm Eastern (6:30 Central, 5:30 Mountain, 4:30 Pacific)
PRESENTER: Emma Marshall, CANOPY Organizer

Emma Marshall is the organizer for the Creation Action Network of Presbyterian Young Adults (CANOPY). She is a recent graduate of Princeton Seminary (MDiv) and is in the final year of her MSW program at Rutgers University School of Social Work. Emma is a Washington, D.C.-area native currently calling New Jersey home. She is a candidate for ordination in the National Capital Presbytery and has a vocation to serve in congregations thinking creatively and expansively about what it means to do and be church in their communities. Emma can almost always be found right next to her dog, Daphne.

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Attention to and action around eco-justice is more needed in our denomination and in our world today than ever. PEC has worked to live out that calling for the last 30 years—to connect with the Spirit of the Living God as we care for creation. Through your generous support, PEC helps Presbyterians around the world connect, equip, and inspire one another to care for creation in community.

Together, we:

• Host monthly webinars and maintain an expanding library of recorded resources

• Offer bilingual Advent and Lenten devotionals and other worship tools

• Lead a nationwide Zoom Bible study on God’s call to steward creation

• Provide monthly “creation care tips” for church bulletins and newsletters

• Gather for a conference that renews and equips our community

• Support young adult leadership through CANOPY (Creation Action Network of Presbyterian Young Adults)

• Advocate at all levels of church and government

Your gifts make all this possible, and we cannot do this work without your financial support. As a nonprofit, PEC relies on the generosity of individuals, congregations, and organizations who share this calling. Please prayerfully consider making a generous gift today to sustain this ministry. Your support helps PEC continue to lead our denomination toward sustainable, joyful ways of living on this planet. You can make your tax-deductible gift a one-time or monthly donation—or use your contribution as an alternative gift for someone who loves the earth as much as you.

To donate to PEC's mission visit our website here: https://presbyearthcare.org/giving/

CLICK HERE for Ways to Give

2025 Earth Care

Advent Daily Devotional

New Daily Advent Devotions based on the Revised Common Lectionary texts from Creation Care Perspectives: We hope this devotional will help preachers, lectionary Bible study groups, families and individuals with new insights on these beloved texts during this special season. We hope the devotions will inspire more people help care for God's creation in these challenging times. Thank you to all of those who wrote and contributed to this year’s devotional!

PEC has partnered with Red Presbiteriana Para el Cuidado de la Creación as a collaboration with both English and Spanish Advent Devotionals to share. Both translations are available on the PEC website. CLICK HERE or the buttons below to view or download your copies in both languages today.

CLICK HERE for English Devotional

HACER CLIC AQUI para Devocionario en Espanol

Daily Devotional Email During the Advent Season

Would you like to receive each day’s devotion from our Creation Care Advent Devotionals in your email Inbox? Sign up by CLICKING HERE. Each morning you will receive the day’s devotions in both English and Spanish.

SAVE THE DATE!

Please join us online for a program that will take us from the science of the Solstice to the pagan worship which surrounds the events leading to seeing that the darkness of the day still allows for the coming light of Christ. The mood will be somber but enlightening.

Date: Sunday, December 21, 2025

Time: 7:30 pm EST/ 4:30 pm PST

Presenters: Barbara Hassall and Lucy Youngblood

More information coming soon!

Partner Event in Chicago

How can we help you care for God’s creation? Drop us an email and let us know at presbyearthcare@gmail.com

Help us grow! Please let us know if there is anyone we should add to our list! Just reply to this email. Thank you!

Please help us to continue to assist individuals and churches in creation care work by donating to PEC through our website by CLICKING HERE. Thank you!

Presbyterian Peace Fellowship - Advent Hope in Action

Advent Hope in Action: Support Chijioke Today

Hi friends,

We began our Advent journey yesterday, a season of expectation, tenderness, and courage as we look for Christ showing up in the rubble of our world.

Today, on Giving Tuesday, we’re inviting you to put that Advent hope into action. Our Lost & Found resident, Chijioke, shared these words about what this community has meant to him and to those who gather each week:

“Working with Lost & Found this past year has been a gift. The joy for me has been watching participants from diverse locations become community—gathering around Scripture, prayer, and honest conversation in ways that feel deeply healing. My hope for the coming months is that Lost & Found will continue to be a sanctuary for those seeking restoration, a place where radical hospitality is lived out, and a community where we keep growing together in the way of Jesus.”

For so many, Lost & Found is a lifeline, a place to breathe, process, heal, pray, and be honest about what we’re carrying. Chijioke’s leadership has helped shape that space with such care.

This Giving Tuesday, we’re raising $1,500 to support Chijioke’s residency so he can continue offering this ministry throughout Advent and into the new year.

If Advent asks us to make room for Christ, then supporting this work is one way we make room for healing, community, and courage right now.

Will you give today?

Thank you for helping us nurture this sanctuary and for walking with us in this season of longing, hope, and new possibility.

With gratitude,

Lost & Found Team

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Presbyterian Peace Fellowship | 17 Cricketown Road | Stony Point, NY 10980 US

Presbyterian Peace Fellowship - Advent Under the Rubble

Hi friends,

As we enter Advent, I keep returning to Kelly Latimore’s Christ in the Rubble. Many writers, artists, and theologians have been naming the same truth: that if Christ is being born today, he is being born among people crushed by the world’s violence.

Womanist theologian Emilie Townes teaches that God shows up where cultural evil does its deepest harm, with those suffering under systemic evil, not above it. God is found with the people the world tries to push to the bottom. When I look at Latimore’s icon, I hear that teaching in visual form.

Advent invites us to wait, but not with closed eyes. It calls us to wait with vigilance, with courage, and with solidarity. Living in Chicago as a Black queer person has always made this real for me. And with heightened ICE and Border Patrol presence these past months, my eyes have been opening wider and wider. People have been taken from corners I walk past every day and families are being torn apart. This advent I have practiced waiting by getting to know my neighbors, checking in on families, joining community patrols near schools, and showing up for PPF’s Flight work. It has meant remembering that Christ is not only in the rubble of Gaza. Christ is also in the rubble of our own neighborhoods, our own systems, our own streets.

This season our theme is Advent Under the Rubble. Each week you will hear reflections from members of our community on hope, peace, joy, and love in the places where they are most needed. My prayer is that these reflections help us see where Christ is being born right now and call us to respond with courage, imagination, and steadfast love in the face of empire.

We are entering this season with a real need. To keep grounding our work in accompaniment, gun violence prevention, abolition, and the daily labor of showing up where God already is, we need to raise $81,000 by the end of the year. If you are able, I invite you to make an Advent gift today.

Thank you for being part of this community and for choosing to wait with your eyes open.

In hope,

Dezi Primous Gillon (They/Them)

Communications and Digital Organizing Manager

Presbyterian Peace Fellowship

According to a recent report by WBEZ Chicago, laminated signs reading “ICE Abducted Someone Here” have been posted around the city to mark places where people were arrested during Operation Midway Blitz-- a painful reminder that many lives and families have been torn apart in our neighborhoods.