Text of: 626-NonDis-$

The Committee recommends concurrence as amended as follows:

WHEREAS, we worship and honor a God who is Creator and Sustainer of all we have and are and, seek to cherish and care for God's creation, but have failed in our stewardship and,

WHEREAS, in Christ God has healed our alienation from God and extended to use the first fruits of the reconciliation of all things, and

WHEREAS, God calls us to commit ourselves to extend Christ's healing to a suffering creation and await the time when even the groaning of creation will be restored to wholeness and

WHEREAS, we are called to commit ourselves to work vigorously to protect and heal that creation for the honor and glory of God, whom we become fully aware of through Christ, and

WHEREAS, we and our children face a growing crisis in the health of that creation in which we live, through which, by God's grace, we are sustained and,

WHEREAS, we continue to degrade this creation through land degradation, deforestation, species extinction, water degradation, global toxification, the alteration of the atmosphere, and human and cultural degradation and,

WHEREAS, many of the degradations are signs that we are pressing against the finite limits God has set for creation and,

WHEREAS, with continued population growth, these degradations will become more severe and

our responsibility is not only to bear and nurture children, but to nurture their home on earth and we recognize that human poverty is both a cause and a consequence of environment degradation and,

WHEREAS, Native American whose religious cultures for centuries has taught them how to care for creation and,

WHEREAS, Native Americans through this unique perspective on caring for creation that Native Americans are convinced that environmental problems are more spiritual than technological.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the 2000 General Conference mandate the following:

1. That there be developed a four-year study on "Caring for Creation from a Native American Perspective."

2. The General Conference direct the Native American Comprehensive Plan National United Methodist Native American Center be the lead agent, working with program agencies of the United Methodist Church and other Native American entities, to develop in developing the study.

3. That (up to) $80,000 be allocated to complete the study with resources, and provide a report with recommendations to the 2004 General Conference.

 

 

 

 

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