A Creation Care Committee (CCC) was formed in 2017 to oversee a diocesan community development grant and a stewardship of creation grant from The Episcopal Church.
Guiding ideas include
1. Outreach beyond the walls of Trinity into the community
2. Establishing for the Mineral Point community that our turn to be stewards of the creation is NOW
3. recognizing and explaining science and religion are welcome partners
4. Marketing, advertising, and a social media presence can be part of our parish’s identity and growth.
Projects completed included
- Rain barrel initiative
- Sponsored a speaker from the Department of Natural Resources
- Installed thirty rain barrels around Mineral Point
- Visit from Father John Floeberg of Standing Rock Reservation
- Visit from Abenacki storyteller Joseph Bruchac
- A 150 square foot rain and butterfly garden, now a registered Monarch Way Station
- Environmental film fest for area school children, the wider community and Trinity, complete with popcorn. Locations included the Mineral Point Opera House and Trinity Parish Hall.
- Virtual environmental film fest for schools from Madison to Dubuque (2020).
- Rogation worship Service.
- Season of Creation liturgies.
Trinity’s Tamarack
Watch and listen to UW-Platteville Dendrochronologist Chris Underwood describe how he will determine how old the Trinity Tamarack tree actually is.
Garden Blessing
God of creation, we meet You here
in colour and scent, texture and pattern,
the humble perfection of all that grows.
Out of our restlessness we come,
to still our minds and open our senses to beauty.
In Your name we cherish the web of life,
light and shadow, bee and butterfly,
the shy birds that return when we leave.
Bless this land, bless its soil.
Our hands, our tools be blessed,
our toil and our rest.
From seed to leaf,
from flower to fruit,
Bless the garden, bless the growers.
from Celtic Daily Prayer, Book Two
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