Resources for Faith Communities
Inspire - Educate - Empower
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New Community Project provides resources and opportunities to inspire, educate and empower faith communities and their members.
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Many congregations donate regularly to NCP or choose us as a month's offering recipient. Here are some short summaries of our ministries for bulletins or newsletters.
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Our Learning Tours offer transformative encounters with God’s creation and our neighbors on four continents. These experiences are for all ages, and move participants to deeper concern for justice and the well-being of our earth.
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The Students for Change page gives youth lots of ways to act on their faith by healing creation and helping our neighbors.
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Needing weekly or monthly blurbs to share with your group to educate and activate? Here are eco-facts on plastic, fast fashion and overall consumption. Here's a thoughtful article on the culture of dissatisfaction that keeps us thinking we need more stuff to be somebody.
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Got that Sabbatical coming up? How about a Learning Tour? Need sermon inspiration? Take a deeper dive into matters of justice, earth care and the process of change by checking out dozens of titles on our Reading List.
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Worship resources from short readings to longer skits can bring humor and poignancy to important themes of our faith.
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NCP regularly offers a fall campaign that welcomes congregational support which previously included She Has a Dream and A Place of Their Own. We post these on the home page.
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Speakers – we got ‘em! Invite NCP staff in for Sunday mornings, weekend retreats, camp programs or other settings. We can present on themes ranging from the challenges facing God's children around the world (child workers, human trafficking, poverty, environmental threats, native communities, etc.) and the creation (species extinction, habitat loss, climate change, simple living, etc.). We’re cheap, knowledgeable and occasionally funny :)
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Our Sustainable Living Centers in VA and VT put our principles into practice and welcome visitors, work groups, and longer-term interns (a great option for young adults – or others – looking for the meaning of life).
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The attached documents offer some ready-to-use materials for promoting NCP in a congregational setting.
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Special Projects supporting girls’ education, women’s empowerment and reforestation are tailor-made for holiday offering emphases, Sunday School classes, women’s groups, or Vacation Bible School. And we send 100 percent of contributions to the programs themselves – really!
Promo video for Give a Girl a Chance! >
Like you, we’re a small organization with
a Big Goal – to change the world. Together, we can make a difference!
Intergenerational Learning Tours - a great opportunity to learn about our world and build community across age groups.
Project opportunities - Waves of Wonder was the VBS theme for Oak Grove Church of the Brethren in Roanoke, VA. Looking for a water-related offering project, they contacted NCP to see if we had anything to offer, so we checked with our friends abroad.
We heard from Shakti Samuha, our partner in Nepal. They said there was a real need for a toilet to be built for Kumari, a trafficking survivor (at right in photo). She and her family were having to go out into nature whenever "nature calls." This is risky for their own health, not good for any nearby streams, and a huge hassle.
The congregation ended up raising almost exactly the amount of money needed to purchase and transport the materials, which included having to carry the supplies to build the toilet three hours by foot.
If your congregation is looking for a project that's connected in any way to human or nature's well-being, let NCP know and we'll see what we can do!
