Resources for faithful climate action during Lent
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There's so many ways to take faithful action for God's creation! Looking for ideas?
Weekly video series
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Watch on this page, click the link on each one to download, or see the whole set here on Vimeo.
We can all do our part.
The final video in our series for Lent Event was filmed at the UnitingWorld Pacific Partner Learning Forum in Fiji in March 2024.
Our church partners share here about the impacts of the climate emergency on their nations, but they also share the message of hope that they have - through faith and action. Rev Tuioti from Samoa calls for us in Australia to also take action:Do your part. We do ours. But we ask of you, as a big brother and a big sister, a neighbour to us, do your part!
Donate today to help us fund our partners taking climate action.
Introductory Video: The world we want to see...
We can't just talk about the problem, we need a positive vision of the future and get to work!
Click to play or download here.
Lent Week 1: Reweaving the ecological mat
"It is our home and therefore we need to care for that."
Click below to play or download here.
Lent Week 2: Faith in a changing climate
A story from Tuvalu
We need to stand together to address climate change and its impacts on our neighbours.
Lent Week 3: Theology and climate change
"...an understanding of God who is present, who is compassionate, and who suffers together with the creation"
Lent Week 4: Disaster resilience in Fiji
"What I would like to see is to move from just respecting humans to respecting the ecosystem."
Rev Tomasi Jale, Fiji Coordinator of the Theology of Disaster Resilience in a Changing Climate (TDRCC) Program.
Click to play or download here.
Lent Week 5: Climate action in Bali
"This is our role as a church... asking what can we do together to tackle the global problems we face today."
Resources and articles
Assembly National Climate Action Plan, Uniting Church in Australia, 2020
Climate Justice Resources for Congregations, Uniting Church in Australia, 2020
These religious leaders say climate change is impacting the future of religion, ABC Radio National, 2023
Christian Climate Change Action Kit, Australian Religious Response to Climate Change, 2017
Podcasts
Future of religion — A changing climate, UnitingWorld National Director, Dr Sureka Goringe on ABC Radio National's Soul Search, 2023
Pasifika theologians reweaving the ecological mat, Rev Dr Cliff Bird (United Church Solomon Islands) and Rev Dr Seforosa Carroll (United Theological College) on ABC Radio National's Soul Search, 2023
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Bible Study (2020)
Physical Bible Study
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Digital Bible Study
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Even more resources!
Videos
Sermon on Jubilee, 2019Dr. Sureka Goringe, National Director of UnitingWorld, shares a sermon at Leichhardt Uniting Church on the concept of Jubilee, and what it means to work for a reconciled world.
Previous Lent Event video collections
You can download by clicking through to each video in the series and pressing the 'download' button.
Lent Event 2018 video series (Pacific focus)
Lent Event 2019 video series (Timor-Leste focus)
Lent Event 2020 video series (Ambon focus)
Other
‘Good news people’ (UnitingWorld’s video for the UCA Triennial Assembly, 2021) | Direct Download
Past Bible Studies
Click to download (PDF)
Finding Jesus in the stranger (Lent Event Bible study 2020)
Living with courage in a fearful world (Lent Event Bible study, 2019)
Faith in Action (Lent Event Bible study 2018)
Guided by the light, guided by the spirit (Lent Event Bible study, 2016)
40 Days of Hope: Six Bible Studies for the Lenten Journey (Lent Event 2015)
Resources for Coordinators
If you wish to do Lent Event as a church/group offline, great! Here's some ways you can collect and account for donations.
Donation Details Form (Record congregation donations so we can issue individual receipts where needed)
Bank Deposit Summary (To record deposits made for Lent Event collections / donations)
Congregation Notices (Coming soon!)
We also have church giving slips available (they look like this). Please get in touch if you would like some to be posted out to you! info@unitingworld.org.au or 1800 998 122
