Prayer Petitions

An easy way to incorporate themes of ecology and creation into worship is within your congregregations' prayers of the people. During this time, you might pray for a particular topic or issue of ecology that is pertinant to your community, a project that you are working on, you might pray about water on a day of baptism, about harvest in the fall, or a theme that comes out of the lectionary texts.

Collects and Intercession

The Center for Theology and the Land, in Dubuque, Iowa, also has wonderful prayers that might be used during your congregation's worhsip: see the "ministry resources" on the web at http://www.ruralministry.com.