A New Book by Rev. Dr. Ambrose F. Carroll, Sr.
Green The Church
A Revival Framework for
Knowledge, Action, and Power
Download the opening chapter of Green the Church the first comprehensive framework connecting Black Church tradition to climate leadership.
Packed with prophetic vision and practical strategy, Green the Church will show your congregation how to move from awareness to advocacy — and from inspiration to transformation.
Endorsed by
New Birth Missionary Baptist Hip Hop Caucus Interfaith Power & Light Young, Gifted & Green Providence Baptist Church
Hi, I'm Rev.
Dr. Ambrose
Carroll
I was raised in the Black Church — shaped by its discipline, its music, its prayers, and its insistence that God is always at work in history. The church formed my imagination. It taught me how to see suffering and how to organize hope.
After fifteen years of frontline organizing at the intersection of faith and environmental justice, I wrote Green the Church to give pastors, lay leaders, and activists the theological grounding and practical tools to lead the climate movement the Black Church was always meant to lead.
I'm the founder of Green the Church — a national movement equipping faith communities with clean energy, climate resilience tools, and community leadership frameworks. This book is the blueprint.
"We do not need to become environmentalists.
We are revivalists. The work
of environmental justice
is revival work.
Rev. Dr. Ambrose F. Carroll, Sr., Green The Church
The Book's Structure
Knowledge. Action. Power.
Green the Church is organized around three essential movements — each building on the last, each rooted in what the Black Church has always known how to do.
Knowledge
Root your work in biblical mandates and ancestral ecological wisdom. Understand the theological foundations that make creation care inseparable from the Gospel.
Action
Transform sanctuaries into solar-powered resilience hubs, vacant lots into food sovereignty sites, and worship into community healing practice.
Power
Mobilize churches to influence policy, build coalitions, and create lasting wealth through cooperative economics — not as participants, but as leaders.
The Organizing Framework
Running the R.A.C.E.
At the heart of the book stands R.A.C.E.: four pillars that structure how churches prepare for climate crisis, live in truth, speak prophetically, and build lasting community power.
