Lutheran Wave of Prayer for Climate Justice Sacred People, Sacred Earth

Prayer

 

Creator God, all things live, and move, and have their being in you. We praise you, God, for the Earth that sustains life. Our demand for growth, and an endless cycle of production and consumption  are exhausting our world. The forests are leached, the topsoil erodes, the fields  fail, the deserts advance, the seas acidify, the storms intensify. Humans and  animals are forced to flee in search of security.

You made us in your image, with power and responsibility to seek the good for all in Earth’s great web of life. Guide us and empower us, to carry out our responsibilities and exercise our power to support all your good creation. 

 

We gather in the image of the Creator  who is a community of love.

We gather in the name of the Redeemer  who reconciles all of creation.

We gather in the presence of the Life Giver  who inspires new life and renews it.

 

(adapted from the resources Light for Katowice and Season of Creation 2020)

 

Links/Resources for Action

 

●      Lutherans Restoring Creation:  Earth Day Service w/Bishop Eaton on Good Shepherd Sunday April 25th

●      Interfaith Power & Light's Climate Action Week: Sacred Ground

●      Congregational Self-Organizing Kit, Covenant with Creation & Action Plan Guide

●      Lutheran World Federation/Climate Justice

○      Ecotheology and Season of Creation: https://www.lutheranworld.org/content/ecotheological-studies

○      Climate justice resources: https://www.lutheranworld.org/climate-justice

●      ELCA/Social Statements on Creation, Climate Advocacy Resources, Connections to other ELCA Ministries

●      Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary’s Center for Climate Justice and Faith with its Certificate in Climate Justice and Faith. https://www.plts.edu/programs/certificates/certificate-in-climate-justice-and-faith.html

●      “River of Life” - ELCA World Hunger’s water-focused Vacation Bible School for 2021 (at-home version available March 2021); also available: “God’s Good Creation,” a creation- and animal-focused Vacation Bible School program for children https://www.elca.org/hunger/resources#VBS

●      “God, Migration and the Climate Crisis” LIRS’s Webinar addressing “Where does faith fit into the understanding of climate change and humanity’s role in it? How can faith communities mobilize to help those affected by climate displacement? What can people of faith do to protect our planet and those living on it?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBNWm_G4L8E