Let’s make hope visible in 100 events across the country.
The gifts of Creation are bountiful, from the thousands of animals with whom we share our land, to the water which sustains our lives. But the warming of the planet caused by greenhouse gas emissions poses a grave threat to its harmony. Climbing temperatures and extreme weather events continue to damage our communities. Deep, bold, and daring action must be taken. Let’s act together during Earth Week, April 20-27, 2025.
—Moderator the Right Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne
During Earth Week 2025, The United Church of Canada is joining with numerous denominations and faith-based organizations under one banner, Together for the Love of Creation.
Communities of faith, networks, and regions are invited to initiate and participate in climate justice events during the week of April 20‒27 to pray, learn, and act for the love of Creation.
This is a tremendous opportunity for the church to lift up and strengthen the ways that we are putting our house in order by reducing our carbon footprint; raising our spirited voices through advocacy efforts; connecting with the earth; responding to climate impacts; and challenging ourselves to be deep, bold, and daring.
Hold an event to share these initiatives with others. Learn from and collaborate with our friends in faith. Attend an event already being organized. Be a catalyst for climate justice.
Last year, over 90 communities participated in For the Love of Creation week, praying and connecting with the Earth, learning and sharing knowledge, and acting for climate justice. With your partnership, let's make headlines with 100 events to mark our 100th year!
Some ideas to get you started
- Pray: Include special prayers in your service. Hold a prayer service in Creation. Try Forest Bathing, Wild Church, or Hiking Church. Later in March, an Earth Sunday Service for April 27 will be posted on our Earth Sunday worship page.
- Learn: Hold or attend an open house to share the greening efforts on your property through Faithful Footprints Retrofit Tours. Host a Faithful Climate Conversation. Invite a speaker (a Climate Motivator, a UN Climate Change Conference [COP] delegate, etc.)—email for suggestions. Hold a “resurrect your bike” event.
- Act: Make climate justice a federal election issue. Meet with elected officials about climate policy. Organize an energy audit. Participate in an Indigenous-led land-based activity. Hold or attend a community event like Earthfest.
Additional resources to inspire your planning and to register your event are on the For the Love of Creation website. All events will be posted on an interactive map.
100 Year Centennial T-shirts For the Love of Creation tees are available for order.
All are invited to attend a Prayer for Mother Earth on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 1 pm MT/3 pm ET hosted by Urban Indigenous Circle and For the Love of Creation at McDougall United Church in Calgary (also online).
Register and view events: Together for the Love of Creation Earth Week registration and map.
We encourage you to share your event on social media using hashtags #FLCPrayLearnAct #UCCan #UCCan100
Questions? Email .
Background
On Earth Day in 2020, faith groups and faith-based organizations in Canada came together to launch For the Love of Creation. This national initiative, of which The United Church of Canada is an active member, is a unified banner to mobilize education, reflection, action, and advocacy for climate justice. It is faith-based and theologically grounded, and centres Indigenous self-determination and youth empowerment.
Working together through the For the Love of Creation enables effective ecumenical collaboration at the local and national levels for The United Church of Canada.
The United Church of Canada’s climate effort has local, regional, national, and global expressions in the areas of Putting Our House in Order, Raising Our Spirited Voices, Connecting with the Earth, and Responding to Climate Impacts. Read more on our Climate Change page.
For the Love of Creation is co-endorsed by Alongside Hope, The Anglican Church of Canada, Primate and National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop, Canadian Religious Conference, Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Citizens for Public Justice, Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Visitation Province, Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of Newfoundland, Development and Peace-Caritas Canada, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, Faith & the Common Good, Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Canada, Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, Green Churches Network, Grey Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice, KAIROS Canada, Martha Justice Ministry, Sisters of St. Martha, Mennonite Central Committee, Mennonite Church Canada, Mercy Centre for Ecology and Justice, Mouvement Laudato Si’ Movement – Canada, The Office of Religious Congregations for Integral Ecology (ORCIE), OMI Lacombe Province, OMI Notre Dame du Cap, Our Lady’s Missionaries, Presbyterian Church in Canada, Religions pour la Paix Québec Interfaith Climate Action Committee, Scarboro Missions, Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception, Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul, Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada, Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto, The Sisters of St. Joseph of Sault Ste. Marie, Sorrento Centre, The United Church of Canada, and World Renew.