Congregational Resources
Insprire - Educate - Empower

An important goal of the New Community Project is to provide resources for congregations that inspire, educate and empower. Listed below are offerings in our main program areas. We also do a pretty good job of coming up with what you need-even if we don't currently have it-so don't hesitate to let us know what would be helpful to your ministry in the community and beyond.

2009 Special Projects flyer! Back to School: Burma, Amazon preservation, girls' education and women's development

Program Areas

• Care for Creation
• Peace through Justice
• Experiential Learning and Partnership Program

Items with live link available online; other items available on request from NCP

All resources provided at no charge; negotiable honorarium for speakers and workshops leaders

Program Area: Care for Creation

Study Resources:

New! Leader's guide for one-two session care for creation study for youth and junior high's

Time's a'wasting global warming guide to teaching, preaching and doing something about global warming--the ecological and human justice challenge of the century

To Till and To Keep, a 4-session adult study resource by Carol Lena Miller (order from NCP, one per group)

Operation Creation, a 5-session resource geared for elementary-aged children-can be used in Vacation Church School or other setting. (Click here for a promotional brochure for Operation Creation.)

Worship Resources

The Talk--a short skit featuring a teenager sitting her parents down for a "talk" on caring for God's creation

We've got the whole world... This litany challenges Christians to respond to global warming

Litany of Disappearance, a reading giving voice to the earth's creatures-and they give humankind an ear-full

Thirsty compares the water choices of two young people-one from the poor world, one from the rich

Francis Daniel Radcliff's one-man portrayal of the life of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of the environment. Contact Daniel at raddancliff@yahoo.com or 309-242-4268.

God's Gonna Trouble the Water, 20-minute reflection piece with litanies and singing, highlighting our stewardship of water

Speakers and workshop leaders? Contact David Radcliff at dradcliff@newcommunityproject.org

Educational Resources

It's as Easy as 1, 2, 3...4, 5, 6, 7 offers seven ideas for congregations wanting to be more intentional about creation care.

Find out what other congregations are doing to care for God's earth

New! Table Tents on care for creation and justice themes. Just print, fold, display, educate! Titles: Trees, Food, Hunger, Consumption, Air, Species, Water, Poverty

New! Styrofoam vs. glass at the church potluck--and the winner is... 

Use our new Cooling Global Warming action guide as a Sunday morning hand-out or use the suggestions one-at-a-time in bulletins or newsletters.

Check out Earth Care Clues for very short newsletter- and bulletin-friendly blurbs about living more responsibly with God's earth. Our Thinking Twice series provides a bit longer items covering both earthcare and neighbor care (justice).

Consuming Appetites compares U.S. environmental consumption patterns with our global neighbors

Ecological Footprint (youth and adult versions) gauges a person's consumption patterns in light of the earth's carrying capacity-it ain't pretty.

The Be(e/a)tles Guide to Caring for God's Creation The Fab Four lead us on a magical mystery tour of key areas of environmental care

The Average American recounts daily consumption patterns of the typical U.S. citizen

Table Tents are small info-pieces for use on fellowship hall tables, highlighting water use, food choices, Fair Trade and more from a stewardship and justice angle

See our education materials page for many additional resources, including bulletin blurbs on global warming.

Special Projects

New Undoing Global Warming/Sustainable Living Homestead--practical and economical solutions for earth care in the home, congregation and community 

Sample letter for individual or sign-on use calling on Congress to take action on global warming

Join NCP efforts to protect 137 acres of Amazon rainforest, sow seeds of peace in Sudan, reclaim barren hillsides in Guatemala! See our If a Tree Falls

Help congregation members go green when they go shopping--purchase NCP's enviro-friendly tote bag. It's a well-built, large-capacity, made-of-recycled-cloth and plastic, once-and-for-all answer to the "paper or plastic" debate!

Program Area: Peace with Justice

Worship Resources

The Client relives the post-trial conversation between the lawyers for Lazarus and the rich man from Jesus' parable

I was Hungry Today portrays food availability for a rich and poor young person

Speakers and workshop leaders? We got 'em! dradcliff@newcommunityproject.org

See our Creative Arts page for many more worship resource choices!

Educational Resources

Food for Thought hunger awareness activity contrasts the lifestyles of the poor and wealthy in our world, and explores how this impacts food supply and other areas of life

New! Learn more about the causes of the global food crisis and what your congregation can do

Check out Thinking Twice for short newsletter- and bulletin-friendly blurbs about living more responsibly with the earth and with our neighbors.

Follow the Money (youth version: Spending Money ) links everyday consumer choices with impacts around the world

For Richer, For Poorer compares U.S. economic consumption patterns with those of our neighbors

The world's most marginalized people are highlighted here; find out what your congregation can do about it

Table Tents are small info-pieces for use on fellowship hall tables, highlighting water use, food choices, Fair Trade and more from a stewardship and justice angle Trees, Food, Hunger, Consumption, Air, Poverty, Species

For more educational resources..try Just Facts.

Special Projects

See Every 30 Seconds mosquito net program or Give a Girl a Chance girls' education program

Visit Equal Exchange (coffee, tea, cocoa) or A Greater Gift (wide range of products) for justly-produced products for sale or use by your congregation

Special Get Organized page for young adults

Check here for more ways to bring justice to our world!

Program Area: Experential Learning and Partnership Progam

Experiential Learning? See our Learning Tour page. These trips are for people of all ages, taking participants to areas where God's earth and/or God's people are struggling. .

Partnership Program For congregations seeking a long-term relationship with an overseas partner, NCP has launched its Partnership Program. Read all about it!