Monday, October 19, 2026

Presbyterians for Earth Care - Upcoming Webinar 🪴+ Last Chance to Nominate for Earth Care Awards 🏆

LAST CHANCE to nominate YOUR

Eco-Justice Champion for 2026!

Do you know a young adult, 30 years old or younger, who connects their faith with creation and shows great potential to be a future leader for environmental justice? Or perhaps you know a more mature person who has spent their life acting and advocating for the beauty, integrity, and health of God’s creation. Maybe your congregation or faith organization operates in a sustainable manner and promotes being a good steward of God’s earth, both within and beyond its membership.

If one of these prompts brought an individual or a congregation/organization to your mind, now is the time to nominate them for a Presbyterians for Earth Care (PEC) Annual Earth Care Award. PEC presents three awards annually, two to individuals and one to an organization. These awards are given to individuals and groups whose work for the environment is especially praiseworthy and creative.

Visit the Awards page on the PEC website for more information, then nominate your eco-justice hero by October 15, 2026.

If you are a PEC member/donor, you are welcome to nominate an awardee. If you are not a member/donor and would like to make a nomination, you can join or renew your PEC membership now.

Volunteers are needed to make the decision about which qualified individual/congregation or organizations will receive the 2026 awards. If you would like to serve on the PEC Awards Committee, contact PEC Coordinator Mindy Hidenfelter at pec@presbyearthcare.org.

The deadline for submitting nominations for PEC Awards is October 15th.

CLICK HERE to Nominate an Award Recipient

Growing Gardens, Feeding Minds

in Kenya

Come and hear the amazing story of environmental and human healing being carried out in western Kenya by the African Inland Church. God’s Green Resourceful Earth, founded by Bishop Tom Ochuka, began as a small tree nursery and has now grown to several gardens and fields, and provides daily lunch along with agricultural education to over 2,000 students in the Kisumu area of Kenya.

WEBINAR DATE: Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Time: 7:30 pm Eastern (6:30 Central, 5:30 Mountain, 4:30 Pacific)
PRESENTERS: Trisha Tull and Mindy Hidenfelter

Trisha Tull coordinates U.S. support for God’s Green Resourceful Earth. Along with Bishop Tom Ochuka in Kisumu, Kenya, Trisha founded God’s Green Resourceful Earth in 2016. A resident of Henryville, IN, she is Professor Emerita of Hebrew Bible at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY and author of Inhabiting Eden: Christians, the Bible, and the Ecological Crisis and the 2024-2025 Horizons Bible Study Let Justice Roll Down: God’s Call to Care for Neighbors and All Creation.

Mindy Hidenfelter is a conservation enthusiast with a background in arboriculture and natural resources management. She currently works as the Coordinator for Presbyterians for Earth Care, a faith-based environmental non-profit promoting the care of God’s creation. Mindy lives in Wake Forest, NC with her family and serves as an elder at Wake Forest Presbyterian Church, where she also facilitates the Earth Care Team.

CLICK HERE for Webinar Registration

We Need Your Help

Presbyterians for Earth Care is now forming its Steering Committee Nominating Team. If you are a member of or donor to PEC, and would like to serve on the Nominating Team, please let us know! The time commitment is two, one-hour meetings. We need your help with choosing PEC leadership candidates for 2027!

Please email PEC Coordinator Mindy Hidenfelter at pec@presbyearthcare.org if you are interested.

How can we help you care for God’s creation? Drop us an email and let us know at presbyearthcare@gmail.com

Help us grow! Please let us know if there is anyone we should add to our list! Just reply to this email. Thank you!

Please help us to continue to assist individuals and churches in creation care work by donating to PEC through our website by CLICKING HERE. Thank you!