One Home One Future Worship Resources
Please explore the wide and varied range of resources gathered by our multi-faith partner, One Home, One Future.
Suggested Hymns for the Second Sunday of Advent, Year C
Title ELW GTG Other All Earth is Hopeful 266 Blessed Be the God of Israel 250, 552 109 Comfort, Comfort Now My People 256 87 Earth’s Scattered Isles and Contoured Hills SWMN 196 For Beauty of Meadows CH 696 God, Whose Farm is All Creation 734 God,You Spin the Whirling Planets 23 Light Dawns On […]
Suggested Hymns for the First Sunday of Advent, Year C
Title ELW GTG Other A Thousand Stars SWMN 186 Above the Moon Earth Rises SWMN 20 As the Dark Awaits the Dawn 261 Creator of the Stars of Night 245 84 God Created Heaven and Earth 738 Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending 435 348 […]
Special Caring for Creation Celebration (Bethel – WI)
Special Caring for Creation Celebration November 13 and 20
Creation-themed monthly video devotion: Trees
The Creation Care Team of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Port Angeles, WA produces a monthly creation-themed video devotion. This month’s theme is trees. Trees talk and make air. Humans discover and celebrate the biggest secrets of our wooden friends. Please watch the devotion here:
Earth Day Worship Service, 2022 — full video in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language
This service was first used for Earth Day in 2022. The recordings are free to use or adapt for your own congregation. Earth Day Online Worship – 2022 We were honored to have the Rev. Dr. Carmelo Santos share the message of the day according to the Readings for April 24th, 2022. You may watch […]
Earth Day Worship Service, 2023 — video, bulletin, and transcript
Thank you for sharing our 2023 creation-focused worship service! Thank you to Rev. Dr. R. Guy Erwin who shared a timely (yet perennial) sermon regarding our own journey on the road to Emmaus as we recognized Earth Day 2023. These resources are free to share and use these videos and resources as inspiration for future […]
Earth Day Worship Service, 2021 — sermon video and bulletin
This service was first used for Earth Day in 2021. The sermon video and bulletin are free to use or adapt for your own congregation. The amazing Lutherans Restoring Creation Production Team, lay members, and rostered leaders (all volunteers) created a joyful online worship service to thank God for this good creation for Earth Day […]
Creation-Focused Worship Service, 2020 — video and bulletin
This service was first used in September 2020. The video and bulletin are free to use or adapt for your own congregation. Thank you to all who made our first-ever Creation Focused Online Worship Service a huge success! In addition to the thousands who watched the premiere via our social media outlets, we had over […]
Planning and Carrying Out Green Events
LRC & ELCA are in the process of developing a holistic event guide (click here – continually updated) to ensure our events are getting better and better for people & the planet. Explore the work in progress linked above and see below for another great overview from the past: Guidelines for Ecologically Responsible Events* *Prepared […]
Where are We? From the Microscopic to the Cosmos: Services and Sermons
Over the summer of 2018 Pastor Susan Henry at House of Prayer Lutheran Church in Hingham Massachusetts decided to try something a little different. After reading several books about the human relationship with creation over the years she wanted share some of these perspectives that may not come up in the typical lectionary cycle. The […]
Sing Out! Celebrating with Creation: Songs in Support of Ongoing Earth-Care
Sing Out! Songs written to known melodies, for use in association with the Eco-Reformation, the Season of Creation, or occasions for celebration with creation. Click here to download “Celebrating with Creation: Songs in Support of the Eco-Reformation in 2017 & Ongoing Earth-Care” by Norman C. Habel.
Worshiping with Creation
We have traditionally done worship focusing on our human relationship with God and our human relationships with each other. Now we need to fill our worship also with elements of God’s relationship with all of creation and with our human relationship with creation (and with God in creation). Here are some suggestions for how to integrate creation fully […]
Liturgy for Earthkeeping
A core mission of Lutheran higher education is the integration of faith and learning in service of the common good. In that spirit a liturgy for the broader church was commissioned in honor of Luther’s sesquicentennial. It is a collaborative project between Dakota Road Music and Luther College Ministries. The Liturgy for Earthkeeping is being […]