1. Creation Care Go Green Environmentally Friendly Fair Trade Carbon Footprint Energy Efficient Toyota Prius Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Climate Change Conserve Sustainable Organic Local All-Natural Renewable Stewardship Vegan

2. REACT. What are your first reactions to these words? What do these words bring up for you? What do these words make you think/feel/do? What do you associate with these words?

3. SHARE. Share with your neighbor the feelings/ images/ thoughts/ experiences these buzz words may have stirred.

4. GATHER. Share what you and your neighbor talked about. What can we gather from the group’s responses & reactions? How do you think this issue might relate to you? How do you think this issue might relate to our community? The Church?

5. Colossians 1:15-20 (The Message) Christ Holds It All Together 15-18 We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God's original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body. 18-20 He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.

6. SEEK. Use REASON: Why might Creation Care be a part of the Church, faith community, Christian Tradition? Use MEMORY: What can we see are the roots of Creation Care? Use IMAGINATION: What are the consequences (the effect) of Creation Care being apart of the Church, faith community, and Christian Tradition? What do we think would be the consequences of failing to recognize ourselves as being apart Creation Care?

7. REFLECT. How would you describe your relationship with creation? Describe three ways in which you are connected to and a part of God’s creation. What is God’s heart for His creation?

8. RESPOND. After being apart of our discussion, how might God’s Spirit be leading you to live as a part of His beloved creation? In what ways can you partner with Him in His redemptive work?