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Hymns and Worship Songs

Here are Hymns and Worship Songs about Care of the Environment you can use in services or just enjoy reading and singing along to.

A. Useful Hymns and Worship songs: words printed on this website Set to familiar tunes, these are linked to below. The authors have given permission of use of these in church and other services provided you credit the author (but check notes at end of each text).

B. Links to useful New Worship Songs – external websites (on a different page)


A. Useful hymns and songs printed on this website which you can use in church and school services. These come from two sources:

  1. The book “Environment Praise” which was compiled after the Hymn Competition organised jointly by Green Christian (then Christian Ecology Link) and St John’s Methodist Church Annual Hymn competition in 2001.
  2. Hymns written and sent in by members of Green Christian and others.

Hymns

  • The Earth is the Lord’s

    Tune: The Lord of the Dance 1. The earth is the Lord’s. Unite in awesome praise To God whose truth by his gift to us displays Accounting-steward we are called to be Sharing divine creativity. Chorus Come then, and bless the earth we share, Let every moment be a prayer,… …more

  • Creator God

    Tune: 10.10.10.4. Sine Nomine (Vaughan Williams 1872-1958) – Words usually sung to this tune: For All the Saints H&P 814, HON 134 1. Creator God, your children’s voices rise,Fed by your earth, uplifted by your skies,Thankful for all its beauty and surprise,Praise ever singing, ever singing. 2. Where forests range… …more

  • Good Gifts for All

    Tune: Wir pflugen 7.6.7.6.D (Refrain) – Words usually sung to this tune: We plough the fields H&P 352, 1. We plough the fields, and scatter the good seed on our lands, but nations who are deep in debt are left with empty hands. The world is full of people who… …more

  • Green Bottle Decade

    Tune: Ten Green Bottles Ten green bottles standing on the wall, Ten green bottles standing on the wall And if one green bottle should accidently fall There’ll be nine green bottles standing on the wall. One green bottle nearly full of oil From the world’s great caverns under sea and… …more

  • As Climate is Warming

    Tune – The Ash Grove 1. As climate is warming Will bees keep on swarming If we just continue to damage the earth? Will birds and sea-creatures, With beautiful features, Forever be lost by denying their worth? Will trees and each flower Succumb to the power Of poisons and toxins we… …more

  • Oh Mother Earth, written for the Copenhagen Earth Summit (& CEL)

    Written For the Copenhagen Earth Summit (and for CEL) Tune: ‘Danny Boy’ – the Londonderry Air 1. Oh mother earth, obedient to God’s calling, your mountain glaciers and your rivers long, your swelling oceans, many waters falling to thirsty lands – for you we raise our song: God’s precious globe,… …more