Start a local Green Ribbon Campaign Express your support for farm families suffering distress. Remember where your food comes from and who grew or produced it for you. (See our Ethics of Eating cards, too.) First and foremost, wear a green ribbon and raise awareness! Become a Green Ribbon Church To be a Green Ribbon church means to share a concern over the future of family farm agriculture and to act decisively on that charitable concern. ___ GREEN RIBBON churches… • Share a concern over the future of family farms and participate in support activities and informative dialogues. • Create an agriculture and food system based on Christian principles of social justice. • Educate church members and the broader community about the problems of rural America. • Minister to the needs of the victims of this crisis. • Engage in prayer and worship on the themes of family farms and rural life stewardship. • Provide leadership, create hope and secure justice for the future. • Make information on rural life issues available to others in the community. ________ GREEN RIBBON congregations will: • Distribute green ribbons among parishioners to wear as a symbol of concern and hope for family farm agriculture. • Prepare liturgy in the light of justice and the status of agriculture and rural society. • Encourage discussion of Biblical understandings of justice • Encourage denominational and ecumenical actions concerning rural America. • Lift up the vocation of family farm agriculture during appropriate days in denominational calendars, such as Rural Life Sunday, Rogation Days, National Agriculture Week, World Food Day, Thanksgiving. Let us know when your church organizes a Green Ribbon event. Contact us at NCRLC@aol.com The Green Ribbon Campaign is a national ecumenical effort: Catholic, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and United Methodists all wear green ribbons. Together we share resource materials, build greater networks and pray for a new earth.