The United Church has worked on ecological issues for more than 40 years. Our faith calls us to live with respect in creation. We are concerned that climate change, ocean change, lack of access to clean water, and resource extraction have a greater impact on the most impoverished and vulnerable living beings.
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 2024 (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.
- Earth Day 2019: For the Love of All Creation Video: An urgent plea for climate action: The #ForTheLoveOfCreation video collaboration was coordinated by the Canadian Council of Churches, KAIROS, and Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ). This video highlights the need for urgent action by—the Canadian government—on climate change.
- 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.
- God among the Wild Things (Mandate, May 2016) (498.09 KB) (PDF): A Bible study on the climate crisis
- Leaders of Today (Mandate, May 2016) (287.19 KB) (PDF): A workshop to empower youth for climate change activism
- 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.
- Overcoming Barriers (Mandate, May 2016) (669.63 KB) (PDF): Workshop: What blocks us from taking action on climate justice?
- The Liturgical Colour Orange and Ember Days (75.25 KB) (PDF): A history of the colour orange and ember days for use in Creation Time in the Season of Pentecost.
- Walking with the Book of Nature (Mandate Fall 2018) (405.22 KB) (PDF): A workshop that helps us “read” the sacred text of nature.
Worship Blog
Imagining Something More
For the Season of Creation, Alydia Smith focuses on what work we can do together to build the world of God's dream.
Acting for Climate Justice
Conor Russell shares his recent experience attending Canadian Foodgrains Bank’s Hunger on the Hill, in Ottawa.
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