Check out Module 2 of our Resources section! You’ll find lots of ideas there 🙂
If you’re looking for ideas for working with children or young people, check out Module 4.
Also see Churches Together in Britain and Ireland’s resources – http://www.ctbi.org.uk/498, A Rocha’s website – http://www.arocha.org/gb-en/resources/1257-DSY.html and Christian Ecology Link – http://www.christian-ecology.org.uk/resource.htm.
Creator God – maker and shaper of all that is, seen and unseen;
You are in the expanse and depth of Creation, and in the processes that make life possible.
Yet we are distracted by the gods we make ourselves and our lives become fractured and fragmented.
In our brokenness we disturb the Earth’s capacity to hold us.
Instead we find climate uncertainty and global injustice.
Call us back from the brink.
Help us to choose love not fear, to change ourselves and not the planet;
to act justly for the sake of the vulnerable; and to make a difference today for life tomorrow.
In your name – Father, Son and Spirit. Amen.
© Martyn Goss
The following environmental version of the Lord’s Prayer was written by a working group at the 8th Assembly of the European Christian Environmental Network, which took place in Prague:
O Holy God who is present in all heaven and earth, you nurture and care for us in our daily lives. May we live today as if tomorrow matters.
We are called to worship you and live according to ways of peace and justice, and sustainably in community.
Help us to be good neighbours and to recognise that our relationships are broken and the planet’s ecosystems are fractured. We see that the whole creation is struggling with changing conditions and our communities are fragmented by inequality and division.
We recognise your generosity in providing for our food. Let us not forget that the world’s foods are not equally shared and while some over-eat, others go hungry.
We confess that we have developed a dependency on debt which causes idolatry, insecurity and injustice, and are losing communities of caring and sharing.
We regret that we are tempted by the idols of death and we forget the vulnerable, preferring our own superficial addictions rather than our deeper potential.
Help us to choose to return to the holiness of each moment and to reject the temptations of excessive greed and speed.
May we be delivered from excessive pride that the Earth be healed and our lives be re-shaped by the grace of your Word and Spirit.
For the gifts of light, life and love are yours, now and for ever and from age to age.
Amen.