Earth Day is celebrated around the world on April 22 each year. For 2026, we encourage communities of faith to celebrate Earth Sunday on April 19.
Worship Ideas
- More than Care for Creation: Earth Sunday (April 27) Service 2025 (48.05 KB) (Word): We are called to more than “care for creation”; we are called to take action.
- For the Love of Creation: Earth Sunday (April 21) Service (73.46 KB) (Word): Act, learn, and pray for climate justice as part of Earth Week.
- In Truth and Action (26.33 KB) (Word): A service for Earth Day that calls us to love, not only in word or speech, but in truth and action (1 John 3:18).
Related Material
- "To live with respect in Creation": The Impact of One Sermon (94.63 KB) (PDF): This extract from Moments in Time explains how the phrase "to live with respect in Creation" was added to the New Creed.
- 2025 Earth Week Message from Moderator Carmen Lansdowne: During Earth Week, April 20-27th, Moderator Carmen Lansdowne reminds us that change takes all of us. Each action brings hope. Let’s make hope visible across the country. In our Centennial Year, let’s make headlines and hold 100 events across the country.
- 2025 Moderator's Earth Week Message: Transcript (33.06 KB) (Word): Transcript of Moderator Carmen Lansdowne's Earth Week 2025 video message.
- Acknowledging the Territory in Worship (170.12 KB) (PDF): A brief guide to help congregations and bodies of the church incorporate an Acknowledgement of Territory into their gatherings.
- For the Love of Creation: Resources and Worship Ideas (46.85 KB) (Word): For the Love of Creation offers faith-based resources, ideas, and opportunities to advocate for climate justice.
- Moderator's Earth Week Message 2024: Transcript (42.03 KB) (Word): Transcript of Moderator Carmen Lansdowne's Earth Week 2024 video message.
- Moderator’s Earth Week Message 2024: During Earth Week, April 21-28, Moderator Carmen Lansdowne reminds us: Change takes all of us. Each action brings hope. Let’s make hope visible across the country. During Earth Week, let’s show up For the Love of Creation.
- Together for the Love of Creation Earth Week 2023: Moderator Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne encourages communities of faith to celebrate Together for the Love of Creation Earth Week from April 16-23, 2023.
Worship Blog
Travelling Lighter on the Planet
The United Church of Canada is sharing stories of how people are Praying, Learning and Acting for Climate Justice.
Cherishing Creation
Rev. Melody Duncanson Hales writes about Creation Time as a time of heightened awareness, stewardship, and action for the gifts God has given us.
Acting for Climate Justice
Conor Russell shares his recent experience attending Canadian Foodgrains Bank’s Hunger on the Hill, in Ottawa.
Earth Day: A Call to Care for the Planet
My father was not much of a churchgoer. I still vividly recall him putting dollops of pancake batter onto a sizzling griddle, or devouring the weekend newspaper, on Sunday afternoons when I came home from singing in the local church youth choir. But my father is a deeply spiritual… Read more
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