Divesting Your Congregation – Resource
Thanks to our friends at Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church for putting together and sharing this great resource about their Fossil Fuel Divestment experience:
Welcome to the story of Trinity St. Paul’s United Church’s journey of divestment of our congregational funds from fossil fuels. We hope you’ll learn from our reflections on our story and our activities!
To put this resource together, we reflected on the challenges we faced, as well as the questions we asked ourselves and those we heard from others, as we moved towards divestment. Are any of these questions also YOUR questions? We’ve described the actions we took and the lessons we learned, with the hope that you can adapt our learnings to your own context.
Just click on your areas of interest to get started!
| We’re a small congregation. Can we do this? Learn how TSP’s Climate Justice Group spread tasks among ourselves to ease the load. |
We’re committed to helping our congregation take a stand, but we’re not experts in divestment. How do we build the knowledge we need? We share how we drew on numerous external resources to build our knowledge. |
How can we help our congregation understand the faith and justice rationales for divestment? Explore TSP’s engagement of our broader congregational community to address climate justice. |
| What is a realistic timeline for the divestment process? What do our Board and financial officers need to know? Learn more about the key stages in TSP’s divestment and reinvestment process. |
The church across town has asked us for advice. How should we respond?What is our role in the global climate movement? | What are some other climate actions we can take as individuals? As a congregation? Learn about other green initiatives at TSP. |
See the original resource on the TSP website by clicking below.
