Pastors & Clergy Network
Green The Church Pastor’s & Clergy Network
To provide registered pastors and clergy with resources, recognition, community, and spiritual leadership tools at the intersection of faith and environmental justice turning their registration into a pathway toward transformation in their ministries and communities.
Join NowWhen you register you...
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Gain access to the Green The Church community — connect, share, and grow with others, driving faith-based sustainability.
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Join our monthly calls — be part of inspiring pastors and clergy meetups that strengthen your network.
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Network with other pastors and clergy — exchange ideas, build partnerships, and collaborate.
Join the Pastors & Clergy Network to explore and expand your role as a center of environmental and economic resilience. Green The Church serves as sustainability advocates to work with church leaders and congregants to literally “green the church” from the bottom up.
Testimonials
"We have so many other priorities. But Ambrose is good at showing all of this is interconnected.”
Rev. Dr. Gerald L. Durley
Pastor Emeritus, Providence Missionary Baptist Church & National Board Chair of Interfaith Power & Light
"‘The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference & the Green The Church initiative are in partnership in an effort to bring the word God's creation as our responsibility ... we are very pleased to be able to create miniature resources together, to be able to work collaboratively to develop actual Ministries who do advocacy & activism work."
Dr. Iva E. Carruthers, General Secretary/CEO, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference
"I want to salute Reverend Ambrose Carroll for his daring, courageous leadership to have the gospel gaul to creatively pull together a Green The Church Summit."
Rev. Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes, III, Senior Pastor
Friendship-West Baptist Church Dallas, Texas
You Are Already the
Heart of Your Community.
Now Become the Backbone.
Your church is more than a Sunday morning. It’s a building your community trusts, land your neighbourhood depends on, and a voice that still matters when everything else goes quiet.
Green The Church is here to help you go further, with tools, training, and a network of faith leaders across the country.
Every church in our network makes the next one stronger. This is how we become what our communities have always needed us to be.
Free to join. No sales pressure. Built for pastors, by pastors.
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
WHY THIS, WHY NOW
Your Community
Is Counting
on You
Climate change is making emergencies more frequent, more severe, and less predictable. Power outages. Flooding. Extreme heat. The families in your pews are living through it — and they’re looking to you for answers and support.
At the same time, churches sit on untapped land, untapped influence, and untapped opportunity. Solar panels could power your church and your block. EV chargers could serve your congregation and your community. Emergency protocols could make your building the safest address on the street.
You don’t need to become an environmentalist. You just need to step fully into what your church already stands for.
The Church Was Here Before FEMA
In every crisis, communities turn to the church first. Green The Church gives you the tools to be ready structurally as well as spiritually.
Billions Are Flowing — Where?
Grants, subsidies, and other program-backed dollars are moving toward clean energy and climate resilience. Those resources will either flow through our communities or around them. GTC opens the pathway to bring that support home.
Creation Care Is Your Calling
‘Tend and keep the garden’ is God’s first job description. GTC’s framework is built from scripture, shaped by pastoral practice, and grounded in the prophetic Black Church tradition.
You Will Not Run This Alone
The GTC network connects you to hundreds of faith leaders on the same journey — with curriculum, mentorship, and partners who have done this in churches like yours.
FREE RESOURCES FOR FAITH LEADERS
Every pastor’s journey is different. Here are six ways to take your next step — all free, all built for real church life.
Get the First Chapter Free
START WITH THE BOOK THAT STARTED THE MOVEMENT.
Rev. Dr. Ambrose Carroll’s Green The Church has guided hundreds of faith leaders to a new understanding of what their church can be. Download the first chapter — free — and see if this is the journey for you.
Download the Emergency Resilience Playbook
MAKE YOUR CHURCH THE SAFEST BUILDING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
Step-by-step operational guidance for becoming your community’s first resource in times of crisis. From communications plans to supply lists to community coordination — this is the playbook.
Get a Sermon Kit on Creation Care
START THE CONVERSATION FROM THE PULPIT.
Three sermon frameworks — complete with scripture, outline, and discussion guide — to open the creation care conversation with your congregation. Ready to preach. Ready to inspire.
Take Your First Steps with Solar
YOUR ROOF IS MORE THAN SHELTER.
Our First Steps to Church Solar guide walks you through everything: site assessment, vendor conversations, incentives, financing, and what questions to ask before you commit to anything. No jargon. No pressure.
Learn How to Add EV Charging
YOUR PARKING LOT COULD SERVE YOUR COMMUNITY 24 HOURS A DAY.
Electric vehicle charging at church is a ministry opportunity, a revenue stream, and a community asset. Our First Steps guide shows you how other churches have done it — and how you can too.
Explore the 10-Month Curriculum
THE FULL JOURNEY — IN COMMUNITY, WITH SUPPORT.
The GTC Resilience Curriculum is a structured, faith-integrated 10-month program that takes your church from inspiration to implementation. Led by seasoned facilitators. Supported by a national network.
PILLAR I — THE GTC RESILIENCE HUB
The GTC Resilience Hub
When your church joins the GTC network, you gain access to the full Resilience Hub ecosystem — four interconnected pillars designed to equip your congregation with the knowledge, networks, and resources to lead the environmental revival.
The Resilience Hub is not a program you complete. It’s a posture you inhabit — and a community you belong to.
Call To Action