Prayer and worship

Fairtrade Fortnight Ideas for Worship  Tea is the theme, with two case studies, sermon links, prayers and activities for young people.  Download from Traidcraft

Harvest for the World    Worship anthology compiled by Geoffrey Duncan.  Celebrate the goodness of creation and be challenged to work for a fairer distribution of the gifts of the earth.  Published by Christian Aid/CAFOD and available from Church House bookshop   £12.99  

Pocket Prayers for Peace and Justice  Prayers from different cultures and traditions to inspire our praying.  From Christian Aid   £5.99 

Ideas for worship from the Fairtrade Foundation   Download

Prayers, Poems and Reflections   Download from Traidcraft  

365 Ways to Make a Difference    Peter Graystone  Daily Bible readings from Christian Aid, to help the reader to relate their personal faith to what is happening in the world.  From Amazon £9.89

Praying for change   A downloadable short sketch about Fairtrade in church, suitable for everyone

 


Human justice, it might be said, is at best a bridle on evil; God’s justice is the flowering of the good.
That is why God’s justice must transcend legal justice.

“I tell you, if your justice goes no deeper than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the kingdom of heaven” Matt 5: 20

God’s justice is done when arbitration is transformed by reconciliation; when   people become more than objects of desire, manipulation and profit;    when poverty is confronted by asking, not how much the poor require, but    how much the rich need; when the goods of the earth are looked upon, not as sources of private profit, but as sacraments of divine and human inter-communication. As and when such things occur, then God’s justice is done, and there the kingdom of God becomes manifest. For the justice of God is the kingdom of God.

Mark Searle: Serving the Lord with Justice

 


‘The fields of the poor may produce abundant food, but injustice sweeps it all away ....' Proverbs 13:23