This is Renew Our World’s Act page, with lots of prayer ideas, lifestyle actions, and ways to speak up.
Play your part in renewing our world!
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Imagining Jubilee in Southern Africa
Every year from September 1 to October 4, Christians across the world celebrate the Season of Creation. We spend time together and apart, prayerfully and practically renewing our relationship with our Creator God and all of His good creation. By Sarah Parkinson.
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Season of Creation
This September, we’re joining together with the world’s 2.2 billion Christians in celebrating the Season of Creation, a time to renew our relationship with our Creator and all of creation through prayer and action. We wanted to know more about where the Season of Creation began and how the movement is spreading around the world. So we sat down with Reverend Dr Rachel Mash for an enlightening chat. By Sarah Parkinson.
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Brazil celebrates the Season of Creation
This September, the Renew Our World community is joining together with Christians from all traditions and all corners of the world to celebrate the Season of Creation.
by Sarah Parkinson
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Act
Click here for more about single use plastic waste, and here to find out more about other actions you can take to tackle climate change.
We can all play a part in bringing this transformation by speaking up, praying and changing our lives. Here are some ways we can do that:
Pray
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV)
Join us in prayer for God to move and bring healing to our world. We’ve produced some guides to inspire you in prayer by yourself or with others. Click on the links below or visit our Resource section
- Here is a prayer guide we have produced with 24-7 Prayer with creative prayer ideas, and a guide for setting up a prayer space.
- ’Prayers for our world’ has prayers and prayer points from many countries on justice, climate change and renewing our world.
- Here is scripture guided prayer on climate change.
- Do you want to turn your prayer into worship? Here is a worship toolkit where you’ll find tips and ideas to organise a worship moment in your church or community, including singing the Renew Our World worship song!
- Season of Creation have a huge range of prayer and worship resources from many church traditions
Lord, Renew our spirits and cleanse our hearts. Renew our minds and transform our lives. Renew our cities and rebuild our ruins. Renew our world, in your name we pray, Amen
Lifestyle
We can all make changes to how we live to reduce our impact on the earth. Here are some suggestions:
- Choose more sustainable food – for example, plan meals to avoid waste, choose food grown more locally, reduce the amount of meat you eat, grow your own food
- Choose cleaner energy – for example, switch to a clean energy provider in your household or church, only heat or cool rooms when you plan to use them
- Choose a greener lifestyle – walk, bike or use public transport, fly less, buy second hand clothes or clothes that come from a fair and sustainable production chain, reduce, reuse and then recycle
- Could you encourage your church/group/community to:
- Start a vegetable garden
- Introduce a ‘farming God’s way’ approach
- Switch to a clean energy provider or install solar panels
- Use cups, plates and cutlery that can be reused
- Do car sharing
For further inspiration check out these resources:
- This resource outlines actions to take each day as a Carbon Fast.
- Our friends at Tearfund Action also have a number of lifestyle actions here.
- Living the Change, from the WEA’s Creation Care Taskforce.
Act
- Join in our campaigning for companies to do more to tackle single-plastic waste.
- Get your church thinking and taking action – take the Live Justly course in small groups.
- What action is your local or national government taking to tackle climate change? Could you write to a government representative to ask them to do more?
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