April 2025 Prayer Points
This month we recall Christ’s passion and resurrection … and in our prayer points, we both listen for the suffering of the world and celebrate resurrection hope. Join in!
Download the prayer points: April 2025 Prayer Points
March 2025 Prayer Points
Lent is beginning, and we pray for God’s guidance as we seek to follow Christ. We give thanks for progress at the biodiversity meeting in Rome, celebrate women tackling climate change, pray for progress in the US, give thanks for the increasing affordability of renewables, and recall the wonders of forests and the joy of doing ‘the little things’.
Download the March Prayer Points here: PAFFTC-Prayer-Points-March-2025
February 2025 Prayer Points
February is the time when our thoughts turn towards love – and the theme of these prayer points is love in all its fullness: God’s love expressed in creation, God’s love for creation; our call to love our neighbours and to follow Christ in paths of love and justice.
Download the February Prayer Points here: PAFFTC-Prayer-Points-February-2025
January 2025 Prayer Points
As 2025 begins, we look back at the toll of climate impacts in 2024 and pray for all affected. We pray that negotiations that ended with disagreement and disappointment in 2024 may continue with greater success in 2025. We pray for the International Court of Justice, as it prepares an advisory notes on states’ climate obligations, and for the United States, as it enters a second Trump presidency. And we give thanks for evidence of a clean energy transition that is gathering pace in a way goes beyond the capacity of any one administration to stop.
Download the January Prayer Points here. PAFFTC-Prayer-Points-January-2025
November 2024 Prayer Points
As we think about ‘All Saints’ we remember and give thanks for those whose love of God and neighbour has shown itself in care for creation. We pray for the biodiversity, climate, and plastics treaty conferences this month, and for the US elections. We lament the flooding in Spain – and pray that God will inspire action as people see, from events around the world, the human and financial costs of inaction. Join in the prayers!
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October 2024 Prayer Points
In honour of St Francis (whom many churches commemorate on 4 October), we start and close with verses from ‘All Creatures of Our God and King’. In between, we hear Pope Francis reflect on our relationships with all God’s creatures, pray for the Cali meeting of the Convention on Biodiversity, and pray for the forthcoming UN climate talks.
Floods have been sweeping the world – and we both pray for each person affected and pray that people will see the big picture, and that it will spur climate action. We give thanks for a decision in the UK that will make fossil-fuel developments more difficult, and for innovations that can help with the move to a just transition.
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September 2024 Prayer Points
This Season of Creation, our prayer points focus on the theme ‘To hope and act with creation’.
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August 2024 Prayer Points
In August, we celebrate the Transfiguration of Christ – and learn from the Orthodox tradition how that can help us think about care for creation. We look at the way the Olympics are engaging with sustainability, pray for meetings of scientists and climate negotiators, and pray about developments in China and the UK. We also hold before God people who are suffering from climate impacts. And more!
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July 2024 Prayer Points
This month we look forward to Season of Creation, pray for recently-elected governments and about forthcoming elections, lift up people suffering because of extreme events, pray about recent court decisions, and are inspired to become ‘servants of beauty’.
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June 2024 Prayer Points
It’s a busy month – there are elections in multiple countries, the UN climate conference meets in Bonn, and there are a host of special commemorations: Environment Sunday on the 2nd (and World Environment Day on the 5th), World Oceans Day on the 8th, Great Big Green Week, Tax Justice Sunday, and World Refugee Day among them. We pray about all these, extreme weather events, and other matters of thanksgiving or concern.
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