Season of Creation 2026 opens with living water and a new feast

Season of Creation 2026 opens with living water and a new feast

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Thu, 09/03/2026 - 17:30

Rivers that carry plastic to the sea. Wells turning salt as the ocean rises. Taps that run dry where children walk far for water. These were prayed for on 1 September, at the service opening the 2026 Season of Creation under the theme "Living Water" from Ezekiel 47. "We are surrounded by water," said Rev. James Bhagwan, general secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches, "but something within humanity has become dry."

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15 May 2023, Kakuma, Turkana County, Kenya: A woman from the Turkana community at Nakoyo stops to wash her hands as she works at an LWF-supported farm where the community is learning how to grow diverse crops in order to better sustain themselves as a changing climate and extended dry seasons has made their traditional livelihoods of keeping livestock increasingly difficult. The Turkana – a traditionally pastoralist community – is native to the area, and forms the host community for the hundreds of thousands of refugees living in the nearby Kakuma refugee camp.

Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

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