Washington Churches

  • St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Bellevue, WA hosted Healing Our Planet Earth:  Singing a New Song of Hope seeking to engage the church in understanding and actively addressing the crisis of climate change. http://www.healingourplanetearth.org
  • Wesley UMC in Yakima, WA, keeps 5 million pounds of trash out of the landfill.
  • First United Methodist Church in Tacoma, WA operates a store called “Ends of the Earth” which sells only fair trade items.
  • Earth Ministry and Healthy Washington have teamed up in Seattle, WA, to select and advocate for 4 environmental issues each year.
  • A one-time Carless Sunday event at Grace Episcopal Church in Bainbridge Island, WA has grown into a long-term program that is raising awareness about global warming.
  • At Saint James Cathedral, the cathedral for the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle, WA, stewardship begins with catholic social teaching.