Oklahoma United Methodist Environmental Coalition
Mission Statement (approved December 7, 2003)

• United Methodist Environmental Coalition is grassroots collective of people and congregations from across Oklahoma area and partners with other United Methodist's; to raise awareness and act on behalf of God's Creation.
• We will encourage persons and congregations to live according to the United Methodist Social Principles in our relationship to the natural world (see United Methodist Book of Discipline, Social Principles 2000 Book of Discipline 160)

• To this end we strive:
  • To identify and proclaim the spiritual and ethical dimensions of environmental problems and their possible solutions.
  • To assist, educate and to be a resource for individuals and congregations in their effort proactively care for God's Creation.
    • Encouraging the possibility of becoming Environmental Justice Covenant Congregation.
  • To educate persons, congregations, the Oklahoma Annual Conference, and legislators on a variety of environmental public policy issues from a religious perspective.
  • To provide a religiously focused environmental resources.
    • Specifically liturgical resources to celebrate Creation Care Sunday
  • To carry on this ministry in partnership with congregation in the United Methodist Church and other ecumenical bodies, as well as other local environmental initiatives, and groups.