About Us

Our Vision for the World: We envision the earth, our home, as a place where all of creation flourishes.

Our Mission: We partner with, encourage, and assist faith groups to preach, teach, model, and advocate for sustainable living and ecological justice for all creation.

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

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

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 animportant part of the organization.

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

Affiliated Congregations

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

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