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Make an Impact
How can you impact your school, congregation or youth group on behalf of God's earth and God's people everywhere?
- Nothing makes an impact like someone's lifestyle choices. Giving up an environmentally harmful food (beef? shrimp?); refusing to use styrofoam (five minutes keeping our drink hot--an eternity in the landfill); walking to school or church (every mile we drive puts a pound of CO2 into the atmosphere); giving up all junk food for a a month and sending the money to Give a Girl a Chance; Join the Band (make pledges to live more responsibly, get a wristband from the rainforest)--any or all of these actions are sure to get the attention of the people around you! Have the courage to make the changes--and show your friends a better way!
- Get yourself on a Learning Tour--and come back as a voice for people who don't have a way to get their voice heard.
- Use one of the readings from our Something to Think About series in your club or youth meetings
- Ask your congregation for more than a Youth Sunday--check on leading the worship on Earth Day Sunday (April 22) or Peace with Justice Week (October 16-24). NCP has skits and info pieces to help out. Let your congregation know what you care about!
- Take NCP to school! NCP staff are available to do assemblies, classes and clubs on topics ranging from hunger to the environment to globalization
Make an Impact - raise your voice! I was in my 12th grade economics class and we were talking about supply and demand. Anyway, one thing led to another, and the teacher was asking about things that people need to survive. A student brought up that gasoline was a need; a basic necessity to live and survive. Well, I stood up for all the thoughts in my mind and brought up the "absurd" idea that people can bike or walk... (Heaven forbid people at my school get out of their Mercedes...) and fought to the death that gasoline is not a need, that it was a want. Now, I am not talking like a little polite classroom conversation. I am talking 32 very heavily opinionated people (teacher included) against me...and I won. I used statistics from hearing David Radcliff's facts and shot their ideas about what is necessary in life down to the ground. I planted the idea that the earth does not NEED for the government to drill in Alaska , and that you do not NEED to buy bottled water. I know I am bragging, but I felt like it was one small step for me...one hopefully large step for the earth's kind... -Jillian Wagoner, LeMoyne PA |
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