How to ‘Plant’ Your Own Wild Church!

Field Guide to Church of the Wild is a smashing book, which could do wonders, if all places of worship invested in a copy (or got gifted one!) Co-written by a spiritual guide and the founder of the worldwide Wild Church Network, it’s a guide for anyone who wishes to reconnect their spirituality with the natural world.

Also read of sustainable swaps for green churches, and how churches can provide homes for roosting bats and nesting owls.

Many of us love Nature and love God, and it seems in the modern world, some people seem to think they are separate from each other (drill the Arctic, destroy polar bear homes, then pray in church?)

This book has a different outlook, including prayers, stories and practical resources for any church who believed that we are guardians of the Earth that God created.

You’ll also meet leaders and participants of the Wild Church Movement, offering wisdom from the hundreds of wild churches that are now blooming across our planet.

Victoria Loorz is a wild-church pastor and Patreon writer. She has become a leading voice in the wild spirituality movement that regards respect for nature and loving God, as being on the same path.

Valerie Luna Serrels is co-founder and director of Wild Church Network. She holds a masters degree in peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Her own Wild Church (Virginia) meets in a forest, where the ‘teachers’ are trees, cardinals, finches and ancient lichen. How refreshing!

The website has a directory of inspirational churches. One is the fantastically-named Texas town of ‘Dripping Springs’, which commits to: