We’ve used these prayers for a few years at Church of the Good Shepherd, Watertown.

Since 2016 Salal + Cedar has hosted an Ecological Stations of the Cross during Holy Week: An annual connection of the Christian faith story, specifically the crucifixion, with the suffering of creation. We meet out of doors, usually in a location that is troubled by environmental harms.

Christ Church hosted a service at Owen Beach in Tacoma’s Point Defiance Park, on the shores of the Puget Sound. These waters are known by various names, called the Whulge by the Puyallup people, and collectively known as the Salish Sea by many of the indigenous peoples.

The rewilding movement is an ecological strategy that seeks to restore healthy and sustainable ecosystems by returning land to a natural, uncultivated state, and increasing biodiversity through processes like reintroducing keystone species.

Lenten Quiet Mornings are a long tradition at Christ Church and previous events have focused on many aspects of creation care.

Christ Church Tacoma has a long tradition of praying the Stations of the Cross at noon on Good Friday, with the images for each station handcrafted by our own ceramic artist, Jean Tudor. This year we added Prayers for the Endangered Species Around the Puget Sound in the church courtyard following stations.

We were inspired by these images.