Creation Care

Creation Care provides for all of us at St. Margaret’s to participate and provide continual inspiration to one another as we seek to reflect the Gospel more fully in our attitudes and behaviors toward our earthly home.  Our committee will report on the issues we are addressing collectively, highlight areas that need our attention–and let’s also have congregational input on resources and examples both large and small of the changes we are making in our daily lives.  This will be a joyful and empowering adventure.

Fall 2026 Creation Care Newsletter

St. Margaret’s Celebrates the Season of Creation,

September 1st – October 4th, 2026

 This is the 5th year that St. Margaret’s has joined church communities throughout the world to give thanks for God’s gift of our world and to acknowledge our obligation to care for it. The Season began on September 1 with an ecumenical prayer service joined by Christian communities across the world. (At 6:30 that evening we at St. Margaret’s had a special Taize service of prayers, readings, meditations, and hymns focused on the Creation. Wednesday, September 2, the Morning Healing Service was the special liturgy for healing of the earth.  

To continue our celebration at St. Margaret’s you are invited to participate in the following liturgies and activities: 

Sunday, September 6th: Decorating the Tree of Life.
Wednesdays, Sept 9 – 30: Healing Services will be the liturgy for healing of the earth.
Wall of Wonder in the Parish House:A photo, painting, poem, or other artifact that inspires you.
Saturday, Sept 19:Garden Clean-Up and Potluck.
Sunday, Sept 20: Meditative Walk through our gardens.

Link of full Calendar of Events for Season of Creation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Creation Care On-Going Projects

The Season of Creation – a world-wide ecumenical celebration of God’s gift of our earthly home and an acknowledgement of our responsibility to care for it. The beginning and the end dates of the Season of Creation are linked with the concern for creation in the Eastern and the Western traditions of Christianity, respectively. September 1st was proclaimed as a day of prayer for the environment by the late Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Dimitrios I, in 1989. The Orthodox church year starts that day with a commemoration of how God created the world. On October 4th many churches from Western traditions commemorate St. Francis of Assisi, Patron Saint of Ecology.

The proposal to celebrate a “Time for Creation” for five weeks, was made by the 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly of the World Council of Churches in 2007. The following year, the WCC Central Committee invited churches to observe “Time for Creation” through prayers and actions. In 2015, Pope Francis designated September 1st as a World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation for the worldwide Roman Catholic Church. The Episcopal Church has created the Covenant for the Care of Creation as a commitment to practice loving formation, liberating advocacy and life- giving conversation as individuals, congregations, ministries, and dioceses.

Read more about the Episcopal Churches commitment to Creation Care @ https://www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/creation-care.