To mark Environment Sunday, and buoyed up by Great Malvern Priory’s Silver Eco Church Award, the Priory’s Environment Group led Altogether Worship, as part of setting the Priory’s sights on the Gold Eco Church award.
The story of Creation was read by two of the younger members of the congregation, from the inspiringly different ‘Eco Church for Kids’. The vicar, Roger Latham, preached on 'Hope for Creation' in the face of headlines of gloom and doom, encouraging everyone to make an effort and work with God as God continues the wonder of Creation.
As the choir sang ‘Touch the Earth lightly’, the congregation was invited to pledge to work for one or more things to bring hope for Creation onto the back of the green hearts they’d been handed as they arrived. Eco-printed using real plants by two members of the congregation, the hearts soon covered the branches of a bare tree as, one by one, the congregation walked to the front and added their pledge of hope.
From using less water, to recycling, to gardening sustainably, to using less plastics and much more, the Priory congregation wholeheartedly embraced their role in caring for God’s generous and amazing Creation, proving that ‘there is hope’.
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