Evangelical Leaders Announce The Great Warming Call to Action Ads: Christian Radio Ads Call for Action on Climate Change

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Prominent Christian evangelicals -- including leaders of the Christian Coalition and National Association of Evangelicals -- will host a press teleconference Thursday to announce The Great Warming Call to Action to convince people of faith that creation care and environmental stewardship must be a top policy priority.

The leaders on the call will announce extensive plans to promote a new Statement -- signed by high-profile religious leaders from across the faith and ideological spectrum, key policy-makers, celebrities, environmental groups and many of the most respected scientists in the world -- calling on our country to take immediate action to address climate change.

Plans to promote the Statement and Call to Action include airing ads on Christian radio stations across the country and widely distributing the statement to people of faith through churches and national and local religious organizations.

Speakers on the teleconference will address the importance of this issue to their communities and will take questions from reporters about the Statement, the Call to Action and the potential implications of both on the American religious and political landscape.

The Call to Action precedes the release of The Great Warming in Regal Cinemas on Nov. 3. The documentary will be initially shown in the top 50 markets in the country -- a bigger initial release than that of Al Gore's The Inconvenient Truth. Regal Cinemas, which does not generally release independent documentary films, committed to a national release of The Great Warming following months of calls from people who viewed the documentary in their communities and churches and became convinced that the movie must reach a broad audience in order to galvanize action on climate change.

WHO:

Rev. Dr. Joel Hunter, president of the Christian Coalition and Pastor of the 12,000-member Northland Church in Longwood, Fla.

Rev. Dr. Paul De Vries, National Association of Evangelicals board member and president of New York Divinity School

Rev. Dr. Gerald Durley, pastor of Providence Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta and civil rights leader

Rev. Dr. Tony Campolo, founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education and professor emeritus at Eastern University

WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 19, 10 a.m.

WHERE: Call-in number: 1-800-658-0035, password: Great Warming, or visit http://www.thegreatwarming.com/

CONTACT: Katie Barge or Jessica Watson, 202-544-7921, or 781-367-7746, or press@faithinpubliclife.org