Eco-Palms materials
Video
Use this three-minute video in your congregation to show the benefits of Eco-Palms. Footage includes Eco-Palms being harvested in Guatemala, harvesting communities and Eco-Palms being used in U.S. congregations on Palm Sunday.
Bulletin insert
Use this bulletin insert during worship on Palm Sunday to educate your congregation on the benefits of your church's participation in Eco-Palms.
Blog post
Talking Theology with Jesus in Mexico, by Kattie Somerfield, Fair Trade Projects Coordinator at Lutheran World Relief, about her recent trip to Mexico to visit Eco-Palms communities.
Article from Presbyterian News Service
Eco-Palms: a celebration of triumphal entry and environmental justice
Brochure
Explains the economic and environmental benefits that Eco-Palms offers to harvesting communities, and why PC(USA) is involved. Provides facts and figures, a description of how the project works and ordering information.
Order a print copy from the Church Store
PowerPoint presentations
Brief presentation
Use this brief presentation to increase awareness of Eco-Palms in your congregation or presbytery. Highlights the challenges of the conventional system and follows the sustainable growing and harvesting practices used to get Eco-Palms from rain forests to your church. Appropriate for use on Palm Sunday, either during worship or fellowship time. Presentation adapted from Lutheran World Relief.
In-depth presentation
Use this in-depth presentation to bring the experience of harvesting Eco-Palms to a wider audience. Created by Barbara Hipple, mission and outreach coordinator in Homestead Presbytery, who traveled to harvesting communities in Guatemala and Mexico with an ecumenical Eco-Palms Delegation in 2007. Can be used as a Sunday school lesson, programming for a church meal, PW or Mission Committee meeting, or for a presbytery meeting or conference. Download the script for this presentation.
Web icon
Use this Web icon to promote your congregation’s use of Eco-Palms. Place this icon on your Web site with a link back to this site to help others learn about Eco-Palms.
For best results right-click the image (or click and use "control" key for Macintosh) and save the image file.
