- Worship Resources:
- Climate and Creation
A growing number of organisations and movements offer resources for use in worship and study groups. See Climate & Creation: Organisations.
Below is a selection of places you might like to begin exploring. If you would like to recommend further options, or have developed worship resources yourself, please get in touch.
Eco Church
Eco Church is an A Rocha UK award scheme for churches in England and Wales “who want to demonstrate that the gospel is good news for God’s earth”.
Worship and study resources are grouped into five areas:
Each area is broken down into an accessible format:
For those in Scotland, there is a sister organisation, Eco Congregation Scotland, which has also prepared a range of resources under the heading Greening Worship.
Green Christian
Green Christian “offers insights into ecology and the environment to Christian people and churches; and Christian insights to the Green movement”.
In the website’s resources section, you can find worship materials that include prayers, sermons, hymns, plays and liturgies.
Green Christian also produces a monthly prayer guide, with email alerts available.
Operation Noah
Operation Noah is “a Christian charity working with the Church to inspire action on climate change”.
Its Green Investment Campaign and Growing Trees resources both containLiturgies.
A wide range of other worship resources include responsive psalms with photos, a list of hymns on the theme of creation, and ideas for intercessions. Also, available, a six-week Lent Study Course.
Pray and Fast for the Climate
The Methodist Church supports Pray and Fast for the Climate, an international “movement of Christians praying and fasting on the 1st of each month for climate justice”.
The Revd Phil Jump explores the question: "Why fast for the climate?" Healthy fasting guidelines from the NHS are also available.
Find out more about the movement on the Pray and Fast for the Climate website, where you can sign up for monthly emails that will offer you prayer points and the latest news about the initiative.