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Station 1 :
GOD’S AMAZING WORLD!
Station 2 :
PRAY FOR THE WORLD
Set Up:
Set Up:
>Have some plasticine or playdough available on a tray on a table
>Place a large globe or large world map on a table/wall.
>Nearby have a small table with green cloth/cardboard and photo
>Display some photos from the ALWS collection of people from
(working area for creating with plasticine).
of garden.
>Display some pictures of natural beauty from a variety of places
OR have a computer set up scrolling through a PowerPoint such
as BEAUTY OF THE EARTH – 5min clip https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=SWELdS1fG_E
Have pencils and post it notes available.
the countries with whom we work. Display a couple of the ALWS
natural disaster pages (photos and questions). Place a chain
on the table and a burning candle.
>Have a basket of coloured paper rectangles 3cm x 12cm plus
some glue sticks and pencils.
Instructions:
Instructions:
Creation is Amazing! Creation is a wonderful, varied place to be.
Stand in awe of our Creative Father! Simply ENJOY looking at and
reflecting upon the beauty before you.
We all belong to the human family on this earth. We are all connected.
Whatever choices we make WILL have an impact on others.
AND
Celebrate that variety by creating an animal or plant out of
Plasticine/playdough and adding it to our own Garden of Eden.
“In the beginning, God created…. …and saw that it was good.”
Genesis Chapter 1.
As you create, reflect on the wonder of what God has done.
Think about how you can care for
this wonderful, precious world.
The second most important commandment is to love our
neighbours as ourselves. When people are suffering, let us pause
and pray for them. Then let us be moved to take action.
Look at the chain, touch it … see how each part is linked to
make a whole.
Write a prayer on a post–it note for people who have suffered in
a disaster or are in a difficult situation now. Post it on the map.
The candle reminds us of all those who have died in disasters.
Write/draw a positive action you can take to care for the world on
the coloured rectangle. Join it into a link and add it to the growing
paper chain.
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Station 4:
FOOD IS LIFE! - PART B
Set Up:
>Have a dish of rice grains/lentils. Have a large tray of dry dirt.
>Display some photo pictures of subsistence farmers from
the ALWS collection. Also the drought montage (photos and
questions). Have a “Stories from the Field about a farmer”
or an AV on a computer.
Station 3 :
FOOD IS LIFE! - part A
Set up:
Instructions:
Many people in the world rely on eating the food they grow.
If the rains don’t come or a disaster destroys their food crops,
they go hungry.
Listen to/watch one of their stories.
>Cover the table with butcher’s paper. Coloured pencils available.
>At the table, put a place setting with a full lunchbox next to
Take a few grains/lentils and as you place them on the dry dirt think
of all the farmers who are struggling to grow enough food to feed
their families.
>Display the Table Prayer near the table.
Pray for farmers struggling through drought around the world
(including here in Australia).
a table setting with one dry biscuit.
Instructions:
What did you eat for breakfast? What have you eaten over the last
two days? Share with a friend.
Which lunchbox looks like yours? We are blessed with a great
variety of food.
Out of every 10 in your group get 8 of them to sit down. They equal
the children in the world who would be having the dry biscuit.
Read or listen to the Table Prayer.
God of love, Creator of all,
this food does not come to us without cost.
It comes to us through human effort,
and we are thankful.
Even more so, this food comes to us as a gift of the earth.
Creation has given itself so that our lives can be sustained,
and we are thankful.
In our gratitude,
we acknowledge the true cost of this food.
And in our prayer to you, O God,
Help us renew our commitment to care for the earth. Amen.
by Fr. Francis Cotter  
Share with a partner the foods you love to eat. Where does
that food come from? Say a prayer of thanks for the people who
grow/make your food.
Draw food you are thankful for on the butcher’s paper. When all
pictures are complete, hang the butcher’s paper on the wall.
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Station 5:
WATER
Set Up:
>Small table with two clear containers of water. One has clean
water. The other has water to which dirt, dead insects, straw,
detergent, compost/manure has been added.
>Display pictures of fresh rivers/lakes and pictures of polluted water.
>A large dish of water + handtowel.
>8-10 plastic buckets of water.
Instructions:
Which water would you like to drink? Sadly, many, many children
only have access to the dirty water. Think about how sick this can
make their bodies. Pray and think about these children and their
families.
Place your hand in the dish of water. As you feel the water think
about how precious a resource it is. Thank God for your water.
Listen to the Water Prayer (or read):
Prayer for the Precious Gift of Water
Without water, we would die.
Water is essential for life on earth,
not just human life but all life. Water is
needed for drinking, cleaning, washing,
and making crops grow. There is no
substitute for this precious resource,
and yet we waste it, we pollute it, and
we even commodify it! Let’s start anew,
and begin by thanking the Lord for the
gift of water.
Station 6: FOOTPRINTS WE HAVE
LEFT, STEPS WE CAN TAKE….
Set up:
>Long piece of butcher’s paper rolled out on the ground.
Textas. Posters about the Carbon Footprint. Sign that says
“Let’s make our carbon footprint smaller and our spiritual
response footprint GROW”
>Copy of some of the Awareness Week pictures such as
‘There is no Planet B” or “We only have one world”
>Print the verse “Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the
oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case
of the widow. Isaiah 1:17”
Instructions:
As God’s people we are called to live the values of God’s kingdom
here and now. This involves loving our neighbours, demonstrating
justice for the poor, and working for the renewal and healing
of creation. Let’s live our purpose in caring for our planet and
its people.
Trace around your left foot on the paper and inside write/draw
ways in which people (you?) have NOT cared for/polluted our world.
Draw a sad face inside.
Trace around your right foot – draw around the outline 3-4 more
times to make it bigger. Write/draw ways you can help care for our
planet and its people – e.g. Save water, put rubbish in bin, recycle…
Think about the verse in Isaiah as you do.
Copyright © 2015 Praying Nature
Many people in the world do not have
running water in their homes. They have to
walk to collect the water they need.
Divide your group into 5 groups. Stand
behind the 5 empty buckets. Carry them
(across the room/along the verandah…) and
pick up a bucket containing water and bring
back to your group. Each person does this
(back and forth).
As you carry your bucket, thank God for the
gift of water and think of ways you can care
for the water on our earth and ways you can
save water.
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Station 8: WE’RE ALL
IN THIS TOGETHER…
Set Up:
>Lay a long piece of rope in a circle shape. Have a large container
of rocks/stones/marbles/counters/blocks at entrance to circle.
>Place an empty container in centre of circle.
Print text “And God made man in His own image….”
Station 7: OPEN OUR EYES
AND HEARTS
Set Up:
>Container of small squares of recycled paper.
>An empty bowl at the base of a cross.
>Story book/AV on computer of ‘The Good Samaritan”.
>Pens/textas, rubbish bin.
>Some photos of people in need from Awareness Week photos.
>Some items from the school’s Lost Property Box.
>The picture of ‘the melting world’ .
Instructions:
Take a rock/stone/counter/block as you enter the rope circle.
Find a seat inside the circle. Reflect on the fact that we are
wonderfully made and unique. We all carry God’s image and are
to be treated with respect and dignity. Go around the circle and
each person share something unique that humans are good at…
(e.g. People can grow food; people can swim; people can work
out maths sums; etc.)
We all carry the potential and skills God has given us. As you say
your thought place your object in the empty container in the middle
and remember the poor and vulnerable in the world who also carry
the same within them but may not have had the opportunities to
express. As you leave the circle think about how you could help
EMPOWER someone else.
Instructions:
Listen to or watch the story of the Good Samaritan. Think about
the two people who walked past someone in need…. Think about
how the hurting man’s need was met – about the Samaritan who
TOOK ACTION – who opened his EYES to the need and let his
HEART MOVE HIM TO ACTION to BRING HEALING.
Take a piece of the paper, fold it in half and tear a half heart shape.
Open the heart – write your name on it.
As you place your opened heart in the basket at the foot of the
cross, ask God to forgive you for the times you have ‘walked past’
the needs of others, and ask for HIS HELP to open the EYES OF
YOUR HEART to take action to care for the ‘hurting people
in our world’.
Look at the ‘Lost Property” on the table/chair…..
These articles are actually from the Lost Property box. They are
most likely not looked for anymore, have been forgotten and no
one searches for them.
PRAY for those in the world who are FORGOTTEN.
“If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the
afflicted [and forgotten] then your light shall rise in the darkness
and your gloom be as bright as the noon-day.” Isaiah 58:10
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