Anglicans across the country joined together to celebrate Green Anglicans Day on the 10th of October, 2025. The celebrations coincided with the government-led nationwide observation of the Mazingira Day held to promote environmental conservation and help achieve the country’s goal of preserving the environment.
The Green Anglicans day is a special day of prayer and celebration of Mother Nature that seeks to raise awareness on the role that nature plays in supporting life on earth and the sacred responsibility given to humanity to care for creation. The celebrations are championed through the Green Anglicans Movement (GAM).
Across the country, the Church mobilized communities to participate in activities aligned to the GAM Kenya Focus areas of Tree Growing, waste management and clean energy adoption. Significantly, thousands of trees were planted in these activities across the country.
In a letter shared to the Nation by the Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Kenya, Dr. Jackson Ole Sapit, the Church acknowledged that “Environmental degradation and climate change are increasingly threatening our livelihoods and very existence.” This called for urgent measures to reduce and reverse the extent of damage to Mother Nature.
The letter based its call for action on the duty given to man in the creation story: “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it, Genesis 2:15.” The Verse assigns man the divine responsibility to care for the Earth, particularly its “lungs” — forests, oceans, and ice caps
Since the adoption of the Green Anglicans model by the ACK in 2017, the Church continues to deepen its biblically-based approaches and teachings to climate change.
Some of the milestones achieved in this regard include
- Localization of the movement within the Dioceses across the country.
- Training and empowering over 200 champions on ecology who lead engagements in their respective dioceses.
- ACK-owned institutions and departments have adopted and participated in restoration initiatives in some of the country’s forests, such as the Ngong Road Forest in Nairobi County, the Maragoli Hills in Vihiga County, and Kakamega Forest in Kakamega County. These initiatives extend to some of the Country’s water towers, such as the Mau Complex ecosystem.
In 2026, ACK is set to mark Wholesome Ecology as the annual ministry focus with several commitments to deepen her foster Faithful Stewardship for a Flourishing Creation. These commitments include:
- Growing an additional 7 million trees across the country.
- Expanding access and adoption of clean and efficient energy solutions
- Promoting responsible waste management practices.
- Fostering behavioral transformation through Eco-theology
In Nyahururu Town, the Rt. Rev. Maj (RTD) Samson Gachathi led Christians and other stakeholders in tree planting and clean-up activities.
At the City Park, Nairobi County, the All Saints Cathedral, Nairobi Children’s Department held a tree planting and a clean-up exercise.
Other Dioceses that hosted similar events include Butere, Katakwa, Bondo, Maralal, Maseno South, Kericho, Kapsabet, Eldoret, Kitale, Kapenguria, Turkana Missionary Area, Bungoma, Maseno North, Kirinyaga, Southern Nyanza, Mumias, Mombasa, Makueni, Maralal, Mt. Kenya West and Malindi.
