CRC Office to be Focal Point for Day of Prayer
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Calvin College and the Grand Rapids headquarters of the Christian Reformed Church will be the focal points for the first National Day of Prayer for Climate Action on Thursday, April 3, 2014.
The day will start out with a prayer vigil at the college and professors will take time during their classes to discuss and pray about climate change.
A press conference is set for 11 a.m. at the CRC office. It will include leaders from Calvin and the CRC, as well as local church, college, government and environmental leaders. Also there will be representatives from Young Evangelicals for Climate Action (YECA).
“After the press conference there will be a luncheon and prayer service focused on the urgent need for serious climate action by our church and political leaders,” says a press release from YECE.
Although Calvin is the focal point, evangelical colleges and institutions all across the country are joining in to hold events.
The first National Day of Prayer for Climate Action is sponsored by YECA, in partnership with the Evangelical Environmental Network and Renewal: Students Caring for Creation, and the evangelical colleges and other institutions.
In its press release, YECA points out that a recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report shows climate impacts worsening, “and as our political leaders remain deadlocked on how to reduce carbon pollution, young evangelicals across the United States are calling their communities together to pray for urgent and responsible climate action to protect life and defend their future.”
Synod 2012, says the press release, took action that makes the CRC “one of the first major evangelical denominations to adopt a formal statement on creation care and climate change.”
Experts at Calvin College have also engaged with the Grand Rapids community in helping to clean up and restore Plaster Creek, a tributary to the Grand River and the most polluted urban waterway in West Michigan.
