The Season of Creation is a time that communities across Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant denominations observe from September 1, which is the Day of Prayer for Creation, through October 4, the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi. As the Season of Creation website says, this season invites all Christians “to renew our relationship with our Creator and all creation through celebration, conversion, and commitment together.”

If you are new to the Season of Creation or are interested in resources to help your community inhabit this season this year, we’ve got you covered. This article provides an array of creation care and climate justice resources for all ages. We’ve included activity and action ideas, books, curricula, and resource hubs. We also invite you to check out our “Prayers & Psalms for the Season of Creation” article.

If you know of a helpful Christian formation resource on creation care and climate justice that isn’t on this list, leave a comment below and tell us about it!

Activities & Action Ideas

Creation Care Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage can be a great way to connect with and learn more about the ecology in or near your community. Valerie Reinke’s “Planning a Youth Creation Care Pilgrimage” offers helpful tips and resources for organizing a creation care pilgrimage. The wisdom she shares can be useful not only for youth trips, but also for adult and parish-wide pilgrimages.

Earth Keepers
One way to begin a creation care ministry in your congregation is by commissioning Earth Keepers. In “Advancing Creation Care and Climate Justice with Earth Keepers,” Sarah Braik, Jenny Reece, and Steve Ward tell the story of how the Episcopal Diocese of Maine began equipping Earth Keepers in its parishes and highlight several different ways in which the Earth Keepers are ministering in their communities.

Good News Gardens
Good News Gardens are all about caring for creation with God as a faith community where you are, however you can. Brian Sellers-Petersen’s article “Good News Gardens: A Movement to Steward and Care for Creation” shares a host of ways to get involved in the Good News Gardens movement, not only by developing a community garden, but also through practices that don’t require the space and conditions for gardening, like conservation, composting, and partnering with Black and Indigenous groups doing social and ecological justice work.

Green and Growing Club
Amy Campbell’s “The Green and Growing Club: Engaging Families in Creation Care Practices” is a formation opportunity that involves sending families resources in the mail or online so that they can learn about and care for creation at home. The design of this program has a lot of room for adaptation and creativity to fit your context.

Greening Congregations Toolkit
Earth Ministry (Washington Interfaith Power & Light) has developed a “Greening Congregations Toolkit” to help congregations of various faiths put into practice their commitments to care for creation. The toolkit includes information about becoming a “greening congregation” as well as ideas for incorporating creation care into worship, education, buildings and grounds, community engagement, and advocacy. You can access the toolkit for free through the link above.

Nature Trekking, Journaling, Sketching, and Wondering
In “Celebrate Creation with Wondering Questions,” Angela Compton-Nelson provides a number of ideas and tips for exploring the outdoors in ways that honor and wonder about all that God has created. A trek in nature, as she points out, can include pauses for journaling or sketching. Her suggestions are particularly helpful for children, families with kids, and intergenerational groups.

Prayer Calendar and Bingo
Sarah Bentley Allred offers two intergenerational formation resource ideas with downloadable printables and templates in “Prayer Calendar & Bingo Sheet for Creation Season.” Both the prayer calendar and bingo board can be tailored to your community’s ecology and interests.

Stations of Creation
This idea comes from “Via Creationis: The Way of Creation” on the Season of Creation website. Like a Stations of the Cross, this practice invites participants into prayers and readings at a series of stations that focus on creation. The link includes a guide and sample liturgy. The guide indicates that it was originally written for Roman Catholic communities and “can be freely adapted to other denominational settings.”

Books

Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land by Norman Wirzba (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022)

This book begins with the conviction that “the God of scripture is an agrarian God” (as Wirzba says at the start of the preface). It consists of nine chapters and explores six spiritual practices—”pray[ing],” “see[ing],” “descen[ding],” “humility,” “generosity,” and “hope”—through the lenses of an agrarian-centered theology.

The Art of Being a Creature: Meditations on Humus and Humility by Ragan Sutterfield (Wipf & Stock, 2024)

This book provides 42 short meditations (2 – 4 pages long each) on soil interwoven with personal narrative and theological reflection.

Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth by Randy Woodley (Broadleaf, 2022)

This book of 100 short meditations (2 pages long each) draws upon the author’s Indigenous experience to encourage readers to learn from and to become more connected to creation in the places and lands where they live. Each meditation also offers reflection prompts and practices.

The Creation Care Bible Challenge: A 50 Day Bible Challenge edited by Marek P. Zabriskie (Forward Movement, 2022)

This book is a devotional that offers 50 entries (roughly 4 pages long each) with scriptures, reflections, and prayers on creation.

Everyone Must Eat: Food, Sustainability, and Ministry by Mark L. Yackel-Juleen (Fortress, 2021)

This book calls attention to rural church ministry as a vital site for engaging ecological degradation and creation care. It aims to equip ministry leaders in various contexts with deeper theological, biblical, sociological, and economic insight into the significance of contemporary land practices so that Christian communities can better discern faithful and sustainable ways to care for food systems and all the lives impacted by them.

In Deep Waters: Spiritual Care for Young People in a Climate Crisis by Talitha Amadea Aho (Fortress, 2022)

This book discusses how to minister among youth amid the current climate crisis. It uses stories and reflections to highlight adolescents’ experiences and concerns around grappling with the ecological devastation that has been handed to them, and it provides pastoral wisdom for those who minister with youth in attending to their gifts and needs in responding to the climate crisis.

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Scribner, 2024)

This book illuminates the giftedness of the earth from an Indigenous perspective and challenges capitalistic, inequitable ways of relating to the earth and one another. If you are interested in exploring this book with a group, check out Patrick Neitzey’s article “‘The Serviceberry’: A Five-Week Bible and Book Study,” which includes a free downloadable discussion guide that he created and used at his church.

Curricula

Abundant Life Garden Project (Episcopal Relief & Development, 2020, Episcopal Church)

This is a free digital curriculum for children and intergenerational groups that emphasizes the abundant life that God gives to creation and the importance of sharing that life with others. It consists of 6 lessons on the topics of “Water,” “Soil,” “Seeds,” “Animals,” “Harvest,” and “Celebration.”

Climate Justice Curriculum for Youth and Young Adults (Lesson Plans That Work, 2021, Episcopal Church)

This is a free digital curriculum for middle and high school youth as well as for young adults that enables them to reflect on the climate crisis theologically so that they can draw upon faith to act for ecological justice. It includes 7 lessons, and age-specific plans for each lesson are available for youth and young adult groups.

Compassion Camp: What Every Living Thing Needs (Illustrated Ministry, 2023, denominationally unaffiliated)

This is a purchasable digital curriculum designed for Vacation Bible School that focuses on caring for creation. It uses Psalm 104 to address vital needs of “shelter,” “food,” “water,” “air,” and “community” that human and nonhuman creatures share. The curriculum includes 5 lessons with a variety of activities, including recreational games, music, arts and crafts, and service. This resource is also flexible enough for other children’s and intergenerational formation settings beyond a traditional VBS program. You can learn more about the curriculum by checking out Building Faith’s 2024 VBS curriculum review slidedeck by Marvin McLennon.

Faithful Resilience (Creation Justice Ministries, 2022, multi-denominational)

This is a free digital curriculum for adults for exploring how communities might practice resilience and seek equity and justice in the face of imminent changes that the climate crisis is bringing, especially rising sea levels and people having to relocate to other communities and places as a result. It offers 6 lessons that include scripture, questions for reflection, research prompts to learn about local ecologies, actions to take, and stories spotlighting communities that put resilience into practice.

Follow Me: Care for Creation (Growing Faith Resources, 2024, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.))

This is a unit within the “Follow Me” curriculum that grounds creation care in Christian faith. It is available in versions tailored to children, youth, adults, and intergenerational groups, and it can be purchased as a standalone printed or digital product or in a bundle with other units. It involves 4 lessons on the topics “Appreciate God’s Creation,” “Till,” “Share the Planet,” and “Restore Creation.”

God’s World in Community: Creation Care (GenOn Ministries, ecumenical)

This is a digital intergenerational curriculum for purchase that invites participants into scripture readings, creation care activities, and prayer together. It consists of 7 lessons that follow Genesis 1 in tandem with related psalms.

An Illustrated Earth: Celebrating God’s Creation (Illustrated Ministry, denominationally unaffiliated)

This is a digital curriculum for purchase designed for children that highlights stories in scripture about creation. It offers 12 lessons on four main topics: “water,” “plants,” “food,” and “animals.” Lessons include gathering activities, age-appropriate scripture paraphrases, open-ended questions for wondering, coloring pages, and prayers. A separate version of the curriculum made for families to use at home is also available for purchase.

Learning Together: Created to Care (Spirit & Truth Publishing, 2023–2024, denominationally unaffiliated)

This is a curriculum available for purchase that is designed to be flexible for use in children’s formation, intergenerational settings, and Vacation Bible School programs. It focuses on the creation story in Genesis 1—2:3 and underscores creation care as a human vocation. The curriculum includes 5 lessons that cover topics of “Air and Sky,” “Earth and Waters,” “Animals of Water and Air,” “Land Animals and People,” and “Sabbath and Rest.” Lessons provide a range of creative activities and games that can take place at different stations.

Love God, Love God’s World (Episcopal Church, 2024)

This free digital curriculum brings together documentary films, videos, podcasts, readings, and theological reflections by eight authors to help adults reflect critically and constructively on climate change in tandem with their faith as well as to inspire engagement in caring for creation in their contexts. The curriculum is discussion-focused and involves three parts with three lessons each: exploring the question “What Is God’s Dream?”; “Truth-telling” about the negative impacts of ecological degradation on human and non-human lives; and grappling with what “Restoring the Covenant, Repairing the Earth” can look like.

ReNew: The Green VBS (Sparkhouse, 2017, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)

This is a purchasable curriculum designed for Vacation Bible School that not only highlights creation care, but also invites communities to incorporate care of creation into all dimensions of their VBS planning and programming. It focuses on the Parable of the Sower in Mark’s gospel for all 5 lessons, and it offers activities and design ideas that encourage environmental consciousness. For more on this curriculum, you can check out our 2025 perennial VBS curriculum review slidedeck by Jodi Belcher.

Resource Hubs

Creation Care Study Guides from The Episcopal Diocese of Arizona

This website includes links and information about several different formation resources for youth and adults.

Resource Hub by Creation Justice Ministries

This hub features a wide array of formation resources for children, youth, and adults, including Bible studies, liturgies, issue-focused guides, seasonal and holiday resources, and more. The site also has a table that lists all the resources that Creation Justice Ministries houses with tags, scripture references, and other helpful information.

Resources at Interfaith Power & Light

This resource page provides materials for worship and education as well as for learning about solar energy opportunities for congregations.

Season of Creation Resources at Season of Creation

The Season of Creation website provides a number of resources for commemorating the season. These include denomination-specific materials, advocacy resources, promotional downloads and graphics, liturgical resources, and activities. Some resources are available in English and in additional languages.

Season of Creation and St. Francis Day Resources from Episcopal Church Creation Care

This page offers links and information about the Season of Creation, the Prophetic Voices podcast for the Season of Creation, and Episcopal liturgical resources for the Season of Creation and the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi (which are available in English and in Spanish).

Toolkit for Launching Your Creation Care Ministry from United Methodist Church Discipleship Ministries

This page offers a host of resources for understanding and implementing creation care, including scriptures about creation, theological perspectives from John Wesley and other church leaders in Christian history, prayers, book lists, movies, practical tips, and additional websites and resources to check out.

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on June 24, 2024. It has been updated and republished on August 11, 2025.

Featured image is by Jeffrey Workman on Unsplash; additional images are by (in order of appearance): Lenka Dzurendova for photo of compost bin, Gabriel Jimenez for photo of human hands holding soil, Camerauthor Photos for photo of hummingbird and flowers, and Emmanuel Phaeton for photo of human hands holding Bible on Unsplash