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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The HNGR (Human Needs and Global Resources) program at Wheaton College recently honored John Stott’s legacy with a symposium titled Radical Discipleship: Loving Jesus in all of life, celebrating three commitments evident in Stott’s life: strengthening global church leadership, broadening Christian social engagement, and demonstrating that creation care is integral […]
Rachel Mash (South Africa) seems to be determined to show the rest of the world what Green really looks like. Two notices from the Green Anglicans recently are worth noting: Clean up and tree planting in Kenya: The Anglican Church in Kenya posted this report of activities taking place in […]
Even with chaos in the streets that grabbed headlines around the world, more than 200 people gathered in Hong Kong recently for a conference on creation care. The Hong Kong Conference on Creation Care and the Gospel was sponsored by the Lausanne/WEA Creation Care Network, though it was organized (and […]
LWCCN’s Dave Bookless was one of the keynote speakers at a Season of Creation webinar recently addressing the vital topic of biodiversity. This is worth listening to! Check the video link and PDFs of two of the main talks in the main article.
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One of the most creative creation care projects we know is in Baja California on the west coast of Mexico. Steve Dresselhaus stepped back from a senior leadership position at a major North American mission agency a few years ago to begin Reconciliamar, with the stated goal of doing evangelism, […]