Worship

Repeating challenge
Celebrate Environment Sunday or Creation Time (or both!) using A Rocha's Environment Resource Packs.

Occasional
On Sunday, cancel the indoor meeting and go for a walk / to the local park to worship God instead. You could pick up litter/plant bulbs as part of your act of worship. If it is an evening service, go outside and look at the stars.

Think on this
Get hold of a Celtic prayer book (the ones by David Adams and by the Northumbrian Community are helpful) to provide inspiration for your prayers

Occasional
Have an outside worship get-together with your small group/cell group. Go to a local beauty spot, park or someone’s garden and have an evening when you focus on the reality that all creation has been made by and for Jesus Christ (Col. 1:16).

Occasional
For your Candlemas service find out if you have a local Energy Advice Officer and, if so, invite them in to give a presentation. Ask your local council if they would come and give away low energy light bulbs.

Think on this
Christian Ecology Link have lots of creation-focused prayer and worship resources; especially their prayers for hope, community of prayer, and daily prayer guide

Repeating challenge
Include an eco-prayer in the church notice sheet.

Occasional
Hold a service that focuses on waste reduction. Ask the children to bring a week’s worth of plastic bags from the family shopping and exchange them for cotton bags

Think on this
The yearly calendar has traditionally been divided into four: midsummer (the longest day), yule or winter solstice (the shortest day), spring equinox and autumn equinox. Each of these gives a good opportunity to celebrate our Creator God. On the Sunday closest to each of these hold an outside celebration with opportunities to thank God for his earth and to look at our responsibilities

Occasional
Incorporate One World Week, held during the last week in October, into your Church’s life.

Occasional
Join with another church to have a service that focuses on environmental concerns. See if there is joint action that can arise as a result

Occasional
Celebrate the life of St. Francis on the Sunday nearest 4 October

Repeating challenge
Incorporate environmental issues into your Sunday prayers - see A Rocha's Environment Resource Packs

Occasional
Hold a picnic with your church or small group in an outside location, with space to reflect on how all creation exists for Christ (Col. 1:16). Specify that the picnic has to follow the LOAF (local, organic, animal-friendly, fair-trade) principles

Occasional
Worship in wellies! Come dressed in your ‘gardening best’ and follow your service/meeting with a picnic lunch and gardening work (on your church land, in a community place, or wherever is appropriate)

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Church
Encouraging your church to live lightly. (Author: )

Teaching
Teaching ideas for your church (Author: )

Purchasing
Ideas for more eco-friendly purchasing in your church (Author: )

Greening the building
Ideas for making your church building greener (Author: )

Outside the building
Measures to take outside your church building (Author: )

Activities
Eco-friendly activities for your church (Author: )

	Repeating challenge Celebrate Environment Sunday or Creation Time (or both!) using A Rocha's Environment Resource Packs.
	Occasional On Sunday, cancel the indoor meeting and go for a walk / to the local park to worship God instead. You could pick up litter/plant bulbs as part of your act of worship. If it is an evening service, go outside and look at the stars.
	Think on this Get hold of a Celtic prayer book (the ones by David Adams and by the Northumbrian Community are helpful) to provide inspiration for your prayers
	Occasional Have an outside worship get-together with your small group/cell group. Go to a local beauty spot, park or someone’s garden and have an evening when you focus on the reality that all creation has been made by and for Jesus Christ (Col. 1:16).
	Occasional For your Candlemas service find out if you have a local Energy Advice Officer and, if so, invite them in to give a presentation. Ask your local council if they would come and give away low energy light bulbs.
	Think on this Christian Ecology Link have lots of creation-focused prayer and worship resources; especially their prayers for hope, community of prayer, and daily prayer guide
	Repeating challenge Include an eco-prayer in the church notice sheet.
	Occasional Hold a service that focuses on waste reduction. Ask the children to bring a week’s worth of plastic bags from the family shopping and exchange them for cotton bags
	Think on this The yearly calendar has traditionally been divided into four: midsummer (the longest day), yule or winter solstice (the shortest day), spring equinox and autumn equinox. Each of these gives a good opportunity to celebrate our Creator God. On the Sunday closest to each of these hold an outside celebration with opportunities to thank God for his earth and to look at our responsibilities
	Occasional Incorporate One World Week, held during the last week in October, into your Church’s life.
	Occasional Join with another church to have a service that focuses on environmental concerns. See if there is joint action that can arise as a result
	Occasional Celebrate the life of St. Francis on the Sunday nearest 4 October
	Repeating challenge Incorporate environmental issues into your Sunday prayers - see A Rocha's Environment Resource Packs
	Occasional Hold a picnic with your church or small group in an outside location, with space to reflect on how all creation exists for Christ (Col. 1:16). Specify that the picnic has to follow the LOAF (local, organic, animal-friendly, fair-trade) principles
	Occasional Worship in wellies! Come dressed in your ‘gardening best’ and follow your service/meeting with a picnic lunch and gardening work (on your church land, in a community place, or wherever is appropriate)