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The National Religious Partnership for the Environment brings together a diverse alliance of faith institutions and leaders in order to bring voice and action on behalf of caring for God's Creation. Through NRPE's four partners we bring together 160,000 congregations in the U.S. to protect God's creation through worship, education, stewardship and public witness. The Partnership is supported by individual, church, and organizational donations. Click here to donate.

The following statement, adopted by the Board of Trustees of the  National Religious Partnership for the Environment, presents the fundamental Jewish and Christian teachings that are the basis for the  Partnership’s work:
 
The cosmos, in all its beauty and life-giving bounty, is the work of  our personal and loving Creator. Our creating God is prior to and other than creation, yet intimately involved with it, upholding all things in relationships of intricate complexity. God is transcendent, while lovingly sustaining each  creature; and immanent, while fundamentally other than creation and not  to be confused with it.

The Creator lovingly cares for all creatures. God declares all  creation "good" (Gen. 1:31), makes a covenant with all creatures (Gen.  9:9-17), and delights in creatures which have no apparent human usefulness (Job 39:1-12). Created in the very image of God, human beings have a unique  relationship to the Creator; at the same time we are creatures, shaped  by the same processes and embedded in the same systems of physical,  chemical, and biological interconnections which sustain other creatures.

Called to be the Creator's special stewards, human beings have a  unique responsibility for the rest of creation. As wise stewards, we are  summoned not
only to mold creation's bounty into complex civilizations  of justice and beauty, but also to sustain creation's fruitfulness and  preserve its powerful testimony to its Creator.

We confess that too often we have perverted our stewardly calling,  rampaging destructively through creation rather than offering creation  and civilization
back in praise to the Creator. For this our sin, we  repent, gratefully acknowledging that the Creator is also the Redeemer  who promises to renew all things. In grateful obedience to this our  marvelous God, we resolve to make our homes, our faith communities and  our societies centers for creation's care and renewal, healing the  damaged fabric of the creation which God entrusted to us. We make this declaration knowing that until our God restores all  things, we are called to be faithful stewards of God's good garden, our  earthly home.


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