Our Vision, Mission, and Values

Our vision, mission, and values guide everything we do. We aim to inspire churches and communities across Scotland to care for creation through faith and action.

Our Vision, Mission, and Values

Our vision, mission, and values guide everything we do. We aim to inspire churches and communities across Scotland to care for creation through faith and action.

Eco-Congregation Scotland is a movement of Scottish church congregations, of all denominations and none, committed to addressing environmental issues through their life and mission. We were founded in 2001 and became a registered charity in 2010. We are a membership organisation, with member congregations voting at our AGM and electing the trustees. You can read more of our history here.

Vision

A Scotland that cares and acts for God’s creation

Mission

We put our care for God’s creation into action individually, locally, nationally and globally, desiring to live justly in a transformed world
We show how to live our faith in a time of climate emergency, encouraging behavioural change by members of congregations and their community partners
We promote mutual support to grow in faith, build spiritual resilience and enable action
We campaign for policies to urgently address threats to the web of life, including the need to transform unjust structures of society
We support a just transition to a zero-carbon economy

Values

We are inspired to care for God’s creation through prayer, worship and conversation
We are a grassroots faith based movement, empowering Christians to be agents of transformation
We work co-operatively with each other and with others who care about people and planet, actively building partnerships in pursuit of our mission
We are committed to urgent change at individual, community, national and global levels
We recognise our personal and collective contributions to the global climate emergency and acknowledge our need to respond

(Values, Vision and Mission statement adopted by the board of Eco-Congregation Scotland in 2020)

How we do it

Eco-Congregation Scotland primarily works through its registered member congregations. We also operate local networks, run by volunteers, who encourage and help each other to do more to help the environment locally and globally. We have a small staff team who support these volunteers.

Our programme has three strands:

Spiritual Living

Practical Living

Global Living

We support and encourage churches – to discover what it means to care for God’s creation in prayer, worship and conversation

We support and encourage churches – to put that care into action individually, locally, nationally and globally, desiring to live justly in a transformed world

We support and encourage churches – to commit to campaigning on urgent threats to the web of life in our vulnerable world