Some years ago Lowell Bliss published a book on environmental missions with the subtitle “Planting Churches AND Trees”. Now it appears that a church planting effort in Tel Aviv, Israel, has taken that advice seriously. Well, not actually trees, but still. Here’s the story: Eli Birnbaum, a church planter with […]
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Pearl Ganta, Lausanne Catalyst for Children at Risk, has reported using creation care strategies like tree planting in their outreach to children campaign called Apnao (meaning “embrace” or “adopt”). The campaign’s goal is “Family | Security | Childhood for EVERY Child”: Be a family to them Help them enjoy their childhood […]
Saturday 7 December a number of organizations will be cooperating to bring “Climate Change: COP25 and the Challenge for Our Churches” to the churches in the Madrid areas (and anyone else who would like to attend). This event is a wonderful example of partnership in the evangelical family for the […]
On 12 December the Presbyterian Church Taiwan (Roosevelt Road, Taipei) will hold a Thanksgiving service to celebrate the installation of 50 kilowatts of solar panels on the roof of their building. They tell us that “we are the first Christian organization to participate in energy transition in Taiwan.” Congratulations! The […]
The Pollinator goes out to almost 2000 people around the world. We’re pretty sure that at least a couple of you know a little bit about websites. We don’t! Would you like to give a bit of your talent and time to help the network out with some basic site […]
We received a one-line message from Kenya this week: This is what has happened in West Pokot in Kenya. We must be serious about Environment.. A picture was attached: The picture says enough, but if you’d like to read more, click here. Pray for the people of West Pokot district, […]
Twenty-three members of the Canada/US and Latin America regions of the LWCCN are in Madrid, Spain these next two weeks for the latest UN climate summit known as COP25. While they are official UN observers in the on-going negotiations of the Paris Agreement, they are primarily gathered as participants in […]
People from the Renew Our World campaign in Brazil, the Netherlands, Peru, and the UK will be at COP 25 in Madrid, along with the Anglican Alliance, WEA, Young Evangelicals for Climate Action, and others. Do get in touch if you’re also at COP, or watching COP. Here’s why it […]
Dave Bookless has been busy in Switzerland for the last several days. Here’s his summary of a number of events he participated in: There was a series of Creation Care meetings, conferences and events in Switzerland from 20th-24th November, with Rev Dr Dave Bookless from A Rocha International / Lausanne […]
It’s easy to be discouraged about climate change these days. But there are some good things happening. This list from Climate Caretakers is encouraging and worth reviewing: Led by Greta Thunberg, a very inspiring Swedish teenager, a dynamic and widespread youth movement is finally rising to lead the way on climate […]