Interfaith Power & Light Faith Climate Action Week

Plan ahead for Earth Day: The 2022 Faith Climate Action Week printed organizer’s kit is now available! The resources in this kit will equip you to lead faith-based discussion and action at your congregation to safeguard a thriving Earth for future generations.

Faith Climate Action Week is Interfaith Power & Light’s annual program of climate-themed worship services and sermons that spans ten days of activities around Earth Day, with this year’s dates being April 22— May 1, 2022. Join the community of people of faith preaching, teaching and acting to heal the climate in 2022!

The theme of 2022’s Faith Climate Action Week is “Sacred Trust: Our children’s right to a livable future.” We will examine our responsibility to safeguard our Earth for future generations, and how our faiths call us to respond with bold and just solutions to climate change.

A printed version of the organizer’s kit is available on the Faith Climate Action Week website for $24.

The value-packed kit includes a Sacred Trust guide with information on intergenerational climate justice and the moral and legal rights of our children and grandchildren to a livable climate. There are also suggestions and resources for how to get engaged in supporting local climate justice action, and a call for art created by youth and children that envisions a positive future for our Earth through the #ImagineIPL campaign. Additionally, you will find faith-based discussion materials, suggested short films and a Youth and Children Blessing ceremony.

Faith Climate Action Week 2022 offerings also include resources for sermons, talks, worship services, a film screening kit for the featured film, "Youth v. Gov," and more.

"Youth v. Gov" is a powerful film that follows 21 young Americans suing the world’s most powerful government to protect their constitutional rights to a stable climate. The DVD, available in March, includes screening rights and a screening kit. See the calendar at www.youthvgov.com to find virtual or in-person screenings in your area.

Visit www.faithclimateactionweek.org to learn more or to purchase your printed 2022 Faith Climate Action Week kit. The kit will be available for free download in March, and the site includes links to previous years’ kits and films. (The documentary "Kiss the Ground" was the 2021 film.) Organizer’s kits are evergreen and can be used any time of the year.

Interfaith Power & Light (IPL) is a national organization whose mission is to inspire and mobilize people of faith and conscience to take bold and just action on climate change. Their website, InterfaithPowerandLight.org, will list Faith Climate Action Week activities for individual states. North Carolina activities will be posted on www.faithclimateactionweek. org/north-carolina-listings/.

There are now IPL affiliates in 40 states. In 2005, NC Interfaith Power & Light became the 16th state affiliate. Learn more at https://ncipl.org.