World Environment Day (WED) 5 June was set by the United Nations to encourage worldwide awareness and action for the environment.

Worship resources for World Environment Day:

Climate Kairos is now! — Ana Gobledale, UK

Bleak Gaia — Sam Goodman, UK

God’s Garden — Alice Robson, USA

When Philip landed in 1788 — Australia

Earth Day worship resources 

A Transplant’s eco-confession — Ana Gobledale, Australia

Aho Mitakuye Oyasin, all my relations — Lakota Nation, North America

Bleak Gaia — Sam Goodman, UK

Blessing of Gardens & Gardeners Service

Call to worship for Endangered Species — Creation Justice, USA

Climate in our hands (hymn) — George Stuart, Australia

Climate Kairos is now! — Ana Gobledale, UK

Climate prayer — Cara Heafey, UK

Cosmic Walk, an interactive ritual

Creation Care poem — Susan Brecht, USA

Creation Communion — Ana Gobledale, UK

Earth Day confession & repentance prayers — Justice Ministries, USA

Earth Prayer — David Pickering, UK

Earth Prayer — Manitoba Buddhist Temple, Canada

Earth Prayer — Sensei Ulrich, Canada

Eco-Church Songs — George Stuart, Australia

Eco-crisis Images

Eco-Justice Services – World Council of Churches

Eco-prayer — Jenny Smith, UK

Endangered Species Day, 3rd Friday of May

Garden Blessing for Earth Day — Christine Sine, USA

Gardeners act of commitment — Ana Gobledale, UK

Genesis 1-2, a choral reading, Heaven and Earth – Scott Ward

Genesis 1:26-31a, In Our Hands, an Earth Day drama

God of Creation (Genesis 1) — Merryl Blair, Australia

God’s Garden — Alice Robson, USA

Golden Ball, reflections at sunset–Joyce Dent, UK

Harvest Hymns — George Stuart, Australia

Holy Air, poem with movement — Susan Brecht, USA

Litany of Hope for Earth Day — Eco-Justice Ministries, USA

Litany of the Circle — Tom Hanson and Loretta Whalen (adapted)

Liturgies responding to climate change — Operation Noah, UK

Liturgy for Blessing Gardens and Gardeners

Monthly Prayer Points for a just global climate

Our Mother Creator, Responsive Reading, Genesis 1 —  Jann Aldridge-Clanton, USA

Our Mother Earth (hymn) – George Stuart, Australia

Our Urgent Prayer – EcoCongregationScotland

Prayer response to natural disaster — Christian Aid UK

Psalm 104, Cool waters — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 148, The Divine Gardener — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 98, Creation’s Harmony — Merryl Blair, Australia

Rainbow Prayer, thanksgiving & intercession — Cara Heafey, UK

Responsive Call to Worship for outdoor service — Susan Brecht, USA

Season of Creation – Ecumenical Resources

Season of Creation — 1 Sept – 4 Oct

Solidarity with Creation — Lawrence Moore, UK

Splish Splash! — A Child’s Water Prayer — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, Colorado USA

The earth needs saving — Lawrence Moore, UK

The Small Things, nature hymn — Sue McCoan, UK

The work of spring, Children’s Message — Tod & Ana Gobledale, UK

Tinged with Greed — Joyce Dent, Hampshire UK

Valentine for Earth, bookmarks to print — Frances Frost

Water, Holy Water: a blessing service — Justice Ministries, USA

We Hold the Keys: the challenge of Climate Change, hymn — David Williams, UK

What will it take to renew the earth? A Litany — Jane Blewet, USA (adapted)

When Philip landed in 1788 — Australia

World Environment Day Prayer — Ana Gobledale, UK

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