A Service for Rural Communities in Times of Environmental Crisis and Climate Change

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The Church of England has created a service that is focused on rural communities and the impacts climate change has on them. It is meant to be a guide for a service and includes resources from beginning to end. To read more, click here.

For a similar service on Urban communities, click here.

Season of Creation Week 2: Climate Change: A Challenge, our Concern

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The second week of the Season of Creation is focused on climate change and the challenge of responding to Pope Francis’ call to care for creation. This week contains a hymn, a call to repentance, a responsive reflection, and an intercession. To read or download the document for week two, click here.

Season of Creation Week 1: A Culture of Relationships That Heals our Throwaway Culture

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For each week of the Season of Creation, there is a resource offering different ways to celebrate creation that week. The first week is focused on the throwaway culture that society has created and ways to heal the problem. This week offers a call to prayer, a scripture reading, a hymn, and a responsive reflection. To read or download the entire document, click here.

Season of Creation Calendar 2018-2020

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The Season of Creation Calendar is a calendar of weekly themes to celebrate during the season. Each week will be centered around a different domain of creation and the season will always end with a blessing for animals. To view the entire calendar, which includes themes for 2018, 2019, and 2020, click here.

Evangelical Environmental Network: Resource Page

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The online resource page for the  Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) offers many helpful resources for clergy and lay persons looking to engage their faith with care of the environment.

This page gives introductory resources for those entering the conversation as well as practical implementation of creation care. Sermon starters and devotionals provide links for personal or community consideration of scripture and environment.  It also links to books recommended by the EEN in Creation Care, Food and Food Policy, National Parks and Public Lands, Sustainable Business, and Children’s books. This section of the page may be especially useful for those looking to do a book study in creation care.

Click here to be directed to the EEN’s resource page.

Christian Concern for One World: Praying in Times of Extreme Weather

Christian Concern for One World

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Christian Concern for One World has created a gathering of prayer points and links to online prayer material in the event of extreme weather. It includes material that can be used by those directly affected or by those praying for them. Click here to read more.

Christian Concern for One World: Dates for Prayer and Action

Christian Concern for One World

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Christian Concern for One World (CCOW) has created a list of Special Sundays and other dates of interests through 2018, with links to resources for prayer and action relating to those dates.  It covers everything from Plough Sunday to World AIDS Day and is designed for worship and activities in churches as well as for private prayer and action. To download this list, click here.