Our Focus: Faith-based earth care, providing resources, support, and education for congregations to help them make connections between faith and earth stewardship.

Our Mission: We are a coalition of individuals from Greater Kansas City faith communities. We partner with, encourage, and assist faith groups to preach, teach, model, and advocate for sustainable living and ecological justice for all creation. We work in keeping with the tenets of each faith group.

The Sustainable Sanctuary Coalition aids faith communities in the Kansas City metropolitan area to care for creation both on a collective and individual level.

Our Vision: We envision the earth, our home, as a place where all of creation flourishes. We take seriously our moral and spiritual responsibility to stop the current ecological decline and to help heal the earth in creative and sustainable ways. We believe the need is critical and that our response must be whole-hearted and passionate. We choose to focus on helping faith communities develop and go deeper in their ministry of earth care. As an interfaith group, we encourage collaboration to enhance our effectiveness. We work toward the day when stewardship and Earthkeeping will be embraced as the sacred responsibility of all.

SSC members share a meal at Margaret Thomas’s home -
building community and developing friendships is an
important part of the organization.

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Our Services

The following are ways we can be of help to you and/or your faith group:

• Present a workshop on greening your church/faith group and developing an  effective Green Team
• Give talks and present educational programs and retreats on earth care for your congregation
• Consult with your church/faith group leaders about earth care
• Provide resources and a lending library of audio-visual materials
• Offer support, encouragement, an exchange of ideas, and networking through our monthly meetings

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Affiliated Congregations

The following are the Kansas and Missouri congregations to which our members belong:

• All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
• Christ Lutheran Church
• Colonial United Church of Christ
• Country Club Christian Church
• Country Club United Methodist Church
• Countryside Christian Church
• Guardian Angels Parish
• Holmeswood Baptist Church
• Leawood United Methodist Church
• Old Mission United Methodist Church, Fairway
• Penn Valley Meeting of Friends
• Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church
• Shawnee United Methodist Church
• St. Andrew Christian Church
• St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Lenexa
• St. Pius X Catholic Church
• United Methodist Church of the Resurrection
• Unity Church of Overland Park (UCOP)
• Village Presbyterian Church