Full services
- Liturgy for a tree planting service from Catholic Health Association – simple and beautiful service to surround a practical action and sign of hope
- Simple Living: God’s vision of abundant life and Restore Our Common Home (from Catholic Climate Covenant) – two great resources for a service with a self-audit of lifestyle included in it
- A Switch-It Sunday service pack from Operation Noah for the day when your church invites people to switch to an ethical bank
- Climate Sunday Service from the Church of England Environment Programme – short and simple service of the word with a climate pledge
- Worship resources for a Climate Sunday service from the URC – terrific resource with materials for a full service, including acts of commitment
- A liturgy for the wholeness of creation and our part in it from St Mary’s, Twyford, via Green Christian
- A time to build an ark, short climate service held before ‘The Wave’ climate march – Operation Noah, via Green Christian
- Operation Noah launch service, via Green Christian
Prayers with a focus on intercession & commitment
Collections of Prayers – online
- Material in the ‘Statements of Faith and Commitments’, ‘Intercession’ and other sections of CTBI’s collection of ‘Additional Resources for Creation Time‘ – a useful resource, gathering materials from a wide range of organisations, church traditions, etc.
- The Climate Sunday worship resources section is full of inspiration
- Pray and Fast for the Climate has monthly prayer points with up-to-date information for prayer
- Green Christian has a monthly prayer guide with daily points to inspire prayer
- The Diocese of Leeds has a superb collection of ‘Creation Care Prayers’, divided into sections including ‘Intercession’ and ‘Commitment’
- Calls to worship from Greening the Lectionary
- ‘Beauty and Hope’ – prayers and reflections from Nick Fawcett
- Liturgical Resources from around the World for Climate Sunday, a wide-ranging collection from USPG
- Loss and Damage prayers from Christian Aid
- ‘Praying for our climate’ Tearfund prayer guide
Collections of Prayers – Offline
- A Heart for Creation, ed Chris Polhill (Wild Goose, 2010). A collection of prayers and reflections on the environment.
- A Time for Creation, ed Robert Atwell, Christopher Irvine, Sue Moore (Church House Publishing, 2020) A wide variety of material, some from the Church of England’s main prayer book (Common Worship) and some newly commissioned.
- Creation sings your praise: A Christian Aid worship book, ed. Annabel Shilson-Thomas (Canterbury Press, 2010) A collection of prayers and services for every time of the year.
- Mary Low’s Cherish the Earth (Wild Goose, 2003) contains some non-Christian material, but also a wealth of Christian texts from around the world
- Anne and Jeffery Rowthorn, God’s Good Earth: Praise and Prayer for Creation (Liturgical Press, 2018) 52 liturgies – rich in selections of scripture, prayers and hymns, alongside reflections drawn from a range of Christian and other sources.
Individual Prayers
- ‘Care for creation in the holy year of mercy’ – a call and response litany, calling us to action for people and planet
- Sisters of Mercy, ‘Intercessions on the care for creation’ – short intercessions … individual ones could be selected for a service, or you could use the whole
- Pledge to care for creation (scroll down)
- World Environment Day prayer, asking God to help us care for creation