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On April 22nd, 2025, Earth Day will turn 55, with 192 countries and over one billion people around the globe expected to participate. This demonstrates how the diverse Earth Day movement remains as dedicated today as it was back in 1970 to bringing everyone together for a better future. (Find out more facts, here!)

So as Earth Day 2025 beckons, here are some opportunities to attend to various creation care activities!

This year, earthday.org is organising their flagship event ‘Earth Action Day’—a coordinated global event that draws together leaders (whether government or church!), policymakers and the wider community to discuss and implement meaningful solutions for the sake of our shared planet.

The theme for Earth Day 2025, “Our Power, Our Planet,” underscores the vital role communities play in transitioning to renewable energy and sustainable practices. While Earth Day officially falls on April 22nd—which is close to Easter Sunday this year—churches, faith groups, and other communities are encouraged to plan these Earth Day events at any time throughout April.

Earthday.org offers a litany of resources, activities, and opportunities for you to get involved! Here are (just a few!) ways by which you can get involved:

1. Host an Earth Action Day Forum: Bring together church leaders and local officials alike to discuss integrating renewable energy within your community. You can register your event on the Earth Day Map, along with any other Earth Day activities you host!
2. Make a Commitment: Encourage your church or faith group to expand its use of renewable energy this year.
3. Incorporate the Theme: Use ‘Our Power, Our Planet’ theme in your Earth Day initiatives.

How can earthday.org support you in these efforts?

• Virtual consultations and event planning support.
• Assistance in recruiting elected officials for forums.
• Publicity for your event through local and national media, including inclusion on the Earth Day Global Event Map.
• Access to resources such as the theme fact sheet, pamphlets, and organising toolkits.
• Event planning checklists like the Forum Checklist.

If you are interested in participating or have any questions, reach out to earthday.org’s Faith Outreach Associate at raskin@earthday.org or bunch@earthday.org

Creation care efforts around the world are steadily gaining momentum in 2025! Fresh on the heels of our first LWCCN webinar, here are key dates pertaining creation care to mark on your calendars and uphold in prayer:

• 3-7 March, Tirana, Albania, launch of Impact Team on Creation Care in Theological Education, as part of ICETE (International Council for Evangelical Theological Education) global conference. If you know people who’d be interested in joining this Impact Team, contact creationcare@icete.team or sign up here.
• 22 April (or nearest suitable date) Earth Day: ‘Our Power, Our Planet’ (please see the article in this Pollinator issue).
• 10-17 May Tagaytay, Philippines A Rocha Worldwide Family Forum. (Bringing together leaders from A Rocha’s 20+ organisations to pray and plan)
• 29 May, 11:00 & 19:00 UTC – LWCCN Webinar: Creation care in the Workplace (booking details will be shared in the Pollinator)
• 9-13 June Nice, France United Nations Oceans Conference
• 14-19 July Panama Lausanne Network Catalysts Meeting  (an opportunity to network creation care with other areas of ministry and mission)
• 1 September – 4 October – Season of Creation – this year’s theme is ‘Peace with Creation‘ and resources will be up soon at https://seasonofcreation.org/
• 4 September,11:00 & 19:00 UTC – LWCCN Webinar: Children & Young People in Creation Care (booking details will be shared in the Pollinator)
• 29 September – 2 October Cape Town, South Africa – Micah Global Consultation with the theme ‘Walking together in hope’. Creation care will be a significant theme. Find out more and book here.
• 9-15 October Abu Dhabi IUCN World Conservation Congress.The largest gathering of nature conservation experts, leaders and decision-makers in the world
• 27-31 October Seoul, South Korea World Evangelical Alliance General Assembly.
• 10-21 November Belem, Brazil COP30 United Nations Climate Conference, at which the CCOP (Christian Climate Observers Program) will be present
• 4 December, 11:00 & 19:00 UTC – LWCCN Webinar: Creation & the Arts (booking details will be shared in the Pollinator)

Climate Intercessors is a global network “of people whose prayers are as real and urgent as the climate crisis.” Across six continents, we began gathering online since November 2020 during the week that the important COP26 climate summit was postponed due to the pandemic. It genuinely felt like we were “standing in the gap,” a metaphor long applied to the work of intercessory prayer in the world.

See www.climateintercessors.org for more information.

CI meets over Zoom every second Tuesday of each month. The first one in 2025 will be February 11th.

• The ones in the following months would be March 11th, April 8^th and May 13^th

Those who are interested can check the above website and subscribe to the e-newsletter, along with the virtual gathering details and monthly bible studies / devotional.

Our meetings typically have four parts: a brief liturgy, praying about current news gathered from the headlines, praying about a more developed theme, and then using breakout rooms to pray for local requests.

Arise, children of our Creator! The Season of Creation is at our doorsteps.

This is an annual Christian celebration to pray, hear, and respond as a community to the cry of Creation. This year’s Season begins on 1^st September and draws to a close on 4^th October.

The theme this year is ‘To Hope and Act with Creation’, with the symbol of ‘The Firstfruits of Hope’, inspired by Romans 8: 19-25. Here is the celebration guide, a means by which you can follow along, equipped with prayers, reflections and ideas for celebration.

Learn more about the events lined up, and the links for you to join in, here.

Please pray for the Lausanne 4 Congress and the Global Creation Care Forum (GCCF) taking place near Seoul, South Korea.

Lausanne 4 will run from 22^nd to 28^th September while GCCF is slated to take place from 28^th September to 2^nd October. Please pray for the safety of all our delegates, especially those from many countries who will be representing creation care, in addition to the necessary finance and visa matters.

Pray for Katharine Hayhoe and Ruth Padilla De Borst who will be speaking at a plenary session on the first night of the Lausanne Congress, that the state of God’s world and our calling to care for it might be at the heart of Lausanne’s deliberations.

Pray too for the afternoon sessions on ‘Creation Care & the Vulnerable’ where Jasmine Kwong and Dave Bookless will be ‘Content Specialists’, and for many good informal interactions throughout.

As for our GCCF, please pray for Jasmine, Dave and Ryoung Kim who are the main organisers, working with others to sort out visas, finances, programme, stories to be shared, online access and much more.

On the heels of the webinar, we bring you further news that:

LWCCN is excited to be a part of the Christian Climate Observers Program (CCOP) at the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, November 10-23rd.

CCOP is training the next generation of UN climate observers from a Christian and missional perspective before and during the conference. Participants will share CCOP credentials and gain access to the COP 29 conference grounds where you will be able to attend meetings, briefings, workshops and any events open to those with official observer status. 

Learn more and apply by 23 July 2024

Dates: Choose one; same program:

    Nov. 10-17 (or)                                  

    Nov. 15-23   

Location: Baku, Azerbaijan

Application deadline: July 23, 2024

Room & Board: lodging and breakfast provided at CCOP Base Camp, site to be announced.

Cost: $850 USD; participants are responsible for their own roundtrip travel. We have some scholarships available for those who require financial assistance to attend, particularly students and those from the Global South. We are still working to make the fee lower than the above-mentioned figure as much as possible, through our ongoing efforts of lodging selection and fundraising. We will announce the actual amount of the fee at the final stage of the application process when you confirm your participation at CCOP-2024, sometime in mid to late September.

How is sustainability linked to God’s mission in this world? What good news does the Gospel speak into the world of finance? How is the road to discipleship connected with biodiversity and the created order?

Do these questions pique your curiosity?

The A Rocha community in Singapore is delighted to host ‘Missional Discipleship and Sustainability’, a day conference in Singapore, alongside the support of Biblical Graduate School of Theology, Fellowship of Evangelical Students and Creation Care Singapore.

There, they hope to explore these questions and much more alongside A Rocha International leaders and local experts, speaking from the fields of theology, finance, science, and conservation.

If you happen to be in Singapore on the 11^th of May, you know what to do – join us for the conversation, happening at Katong Presbyterian Church! Find out more details here. 

On that note, do check out a prior work by the A Rocha community in Singapore—God’s Gardeners: Creation Care Stories from Singapore and Malaysia.

Save the Date! 

Time: 13.00 UTC (14.00 BST) | Date: 9 July 2024

Mark your calendars! The next LWCCN Webinar will be on 9^th July, on Creation Care in Cities. This is a vital subject, considering that more than 50% of the world’s population live in urban areas.

Dr Chris Elisara from WEA and others will be facilitating our conversation. Keep an eye for the Zoom link in next month’s Pollinator—we will also share the recording of our recent webinar on Churches and Creation Care, which had excellent contributions from India, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, and the UK.

More details coming soon!

Climate Intercessors is a global network “of people whose prayers are as real and urgent as the climate crisis.” Across six continents, we began gathering online since November 2020 during the week that the important COP26 climate summit was postponed due to the pandemic. It genuinely felt like we were “standing in the gap,” a metaphor long applied to the work of intercessory prayer in the world. At that time, Dave Bookless (A Rocha International) called our efforts part of “the missing puzzle piece” in climate action.

We meet over Zoom on the second Tuesday of each month, and offer four one-hour options to try to accommodate as many time zones as possible. Our next scheduled date is April 9.

Click here for Zoom links.

Our meetings typically have four parts: a brief liturgy, praying about current news gathered from the headlines, praying about a more developed theme, and then using breakout rooms to pray for local requests.

[To give you a taste of specifics, April’s headline prayers will include the heartbreaking drought in Western Afghanistan, and the theme prayers will focus on Carbon Capture and Sequestration; that God might enable engineers to bring CCS to scale quickly and that the public might not be swayed by false claims made about CCS by the fossil fuel companies.]

Another feature of Climate Intercessors is our monthly newsletters which features a brief reflection from Scripture about the climate crisis and prayer. Writer Lowell Bliss calls these “injective Bible studies”: what happens when you inject the topic of climate change into old familiar stories from the Gospels and the Old Testament? The titles might be tongue-in-check—such as April 2023’s “Lazarus’s Sisters Emote over the IPCC Report (John 11)—but our careful handling of God’s Word is a serious call to go beyond the standard “creation care verses” and to explore how all of Scripture can instruct us in the climate crisis.

Read old newsletters, subscribe to new ones, and find the timings for meetings at www.climateintercessors.org. No registration is required for the meetings. Just show up. All are welcome.

Join us for our upcoming conversation on Creation Care & Churches! We are delighted to have Kuki Rokhum—A Rocha International Director of Church Engagement, to share her insight on this, alongside other voices from Peru, the UK, and the Philippines.

This quarterly webinar is part of a series exploring theological and practical aspects of creation care.

Time: 13.00 UTC (14.00 BST) | Date: 23 April 2024

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