Today is Palm Sunday, the day where we celebrate the beginning of Holy Week and the anniversary of Jesus entering into Jerusalem flanked by crowds of people waving Palms. As we celebrate today you might take a minute to notice the palms that we are using. For many of us these palms seem different - they are. The Palms we are using are known in Presbyterian Circles as Eco-Palms and they are a little lesson in stewardship.
The stereotypical Palms that many congregations will use today are stiff, strong and come from a type of Palm tree that is older, and slower to regenerate it's frons. The harvesting of these classical Palm frons for Palm Sunday is not easy on these trees and often it takes a great deal of time for them to regain their former beauty. Sensing our duty as co-members of this great Creation the Presbyterian Church began a project called Eco-Palms which provides PCUSA congregations the chance to purchase fast growing, ecological friendly palms from growers that offer a fair living wage. To learn more about this project please click on the provided link.
http://www.pcusa.org/palms/church.htm
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