Abundant Life Garden Project: St. Francis Day Blessing of the Animals
This special edition of our Abundant Life Garden Project resources is available to you for free download to introduce children, their parents, and others in your faith community to the work of Episcopal Relief & Development.
These materials may be used for Blessing of the Animals services, children’s chapel, Sunday school, school chapel services or other worship services and Christian formation programs. Materials may be printed and used with little advance preparation. We supply you with a litany, a homily accompanied by photographs, discussion questions, and child-appropriate prayers.
We invite you to share in our ministry of healing a hurting world by giving the gift of animals to others in need around the world. These Gifts for Life – cows, pigs, goats, bees and chickens – empower the people we serve, enabling them to produce food for their families and sell surplus produce to others.
These materials may be used for Blessing of the Animals services, children’s chapel, Sunday school, school chapel services or other worship services and Christian formation programs. Materials may be printed and used with little advance preparation. We supply you with a litany, a homily accompanied by photographs, discussion questions, and child-appropriate prayers.
We invite you to share in our ministry of healing a hurting world by giving the gift of animals to others in need around the world. These Gifts for Life – cows, pigs, goats, bees and chickens – empower the people we serve, enabling them to produce food for their families and sell surplus produce to others.