Earth Day is Everyday - worship idea

I wanted to let you know that we used (but modified) the Enough for All service for Earth Day, along with the bulletins. We used the section "Beyond Sunday" as a bulletin insert. We used lots of natural elements i.e. beeswax candles, river rock, a crystal pitcher of water and fruit and vegetables to signify earth, fire & air. We used the Rainbow Covenant and are sewing the pieces together to be a visible sign of the covenant we made with the earth that Sunday. It will eventually hang in the sanctuary. We handed out green loop ribbons for people to where and put the strips of coloured paper and a pen in the bulletins. We also handed out the 2008 "Care for Creation" calendar to everyone as they left. We will definitely be doing a special service annually!

We had quite a few visitors that day and some of the comments were: "I can't believe that you had a whole service about the Earth!" It was wonderful. My yoga teacher was there and when it was the yoga class she mentioned that it was Earth Day and then expounded on how wonderful our service had been.

We also had a potluck dinner in the auditorium that evening with a showing of "An Inconvenient Truth". We had an information table with lots of handouts for people to take away.

One of our minister's preached again about the earth today and commented on our service and the movie and how it has kept her focused on the environment since that time.

Pat G.
St. Paul's United
Perth