TLLC Care of Creation Team Celebrates the Season of Creation
Our celebration of the Season of Creation includes a presentation on native bees on September 21 (learn more) and “God’s work. Our hands.” Field Trip to the Festival Beach Food Forest downtown on Saturday, Oct 5. Join us as we “hope and act with Creation”.
In the month of September, the Season of Creation is celebrated in churches around the world. The World Council of Churches was instrumental in setting the dates for Season of Creation to begin on September 1st and end on October 4th (Feast Day for St. Francis of Assisi). The first Season of Creation was celebrated in 2000, under Norman Habel’s leadership at St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church, Adelaide, South Australia. It is a special season where the worldwide Christian community celebrates God as Creator and summons us as collaborators to love and care for the gift of all that is created.
This year, the theme for the season is “To hope and act with Creation.” As people of faith we are called to lift the hope inspired by our faith, the hope of the resurrection. This is not a hope without action but one embodied in concrete actions of prayer and preaching, service and solidarity. Lutheran World Federation General Secretary Rev. Dr Anne Burghardt states, “At our 13th General Assembly in Krakow (September 2023), the Lutheran World Federation affirmed that as churches in ongoing reformation, we are called to work for peace in the world: between people, countries, and with the whole of creation. The Season of Creation is a source of strength and communion, encouraging us truly ‘to hope and act with Creation.’”