Thursday 5^th June 2025 12:00-13:15 OR 20:00-21:15 GMT

Please register for free to attend on 5^th June 2025 … and please let your friends know!

https://lausanne.org/gathering/creation-care-in-the-workplace-a-lausanne-wea-creation-care-network-webinar

• Option 1: 12:00 UTC / 13:00 BST
• Option 2: 20:0O UTC / 21:00 BST

We will be joined by speakers from Lausanne’s Business as Mission (BAM) Network and from LICC (London Institute for Contemporary Christianity). What does it mean to be witnesses of Jesus as Lord of all creation in the world of business, industry, and commerce? How should our faith shape the way we engage with ecological values at work? What challenges might we face, and are there ethical boundaries we should not cross? Most importantly, how can we support and pray for fellow believers who serve in positions of influence in the workplace? Join us as we explore these important questions and more.

Mark these future dates for our upcoming webinars!

4^th September Thursday,11:00 & 19:00 UTC– Children & Young People in Creation Care

4^th December Thursday, 11:00 & 19:00 UTC– Creation & the Arts

Registration is open for the Micah Global Consultation in Cape Town, South Africa from 29 September to 2 October 2025. There will be an optional post-Consultation for Interest Groups on 3^rd October 2025.

The theme is ‘Walking together in Hope’, where the conference organisers say:

The 9th Micah Global Consultation will be a time for us to envision, encourage, connect and equip ourselves as we walk together to bring hope in difficult times and hard places around the world.

There will be thematic tracks for humanitarian response, development, advocacy and creation care.

A Rocha and LWCCN will be leading the creation care track, and if you’re planning to attend, we’d love to involve you (though please understand we don’t have any funds to help!).

Please contact dave.bookless@arocha.org and kuki.rokhum@arocha.org.

We bring you news and an invitation from A Rocha France! They write,

“A Rocha France is delighted to invite participants from across Europe to join us at two inspiring residential weeks in the summer of 2025. Both events are designed to deepen our understanding of creation care, build community, and renew our hope in God’s work in the world.

1. “Terre & Foi” Week at Les Courmettes (6–12 July 2025)
Theme: Living Hope in a Wounded World
Location: Domaine des Courmettes, near Nice, Southern France
Main speaker: Dave Bookless, Director of Theology at A Rocha International

This bilingual (French-English) residential week offers a unique opportunity to explore the links between Christian faith and ecological commitment. Participants will enjoy a rich program of theological teaching, prayer, worship, time in nature, and practical workshops. It is ideal for those wanting to reflect, be refreshed, and engage more deeply in the mission of caring for creation.

More information and registration: https://www.courmettes.com/en/sejour-terre-et-foi-2025  

2. A Rocha Week in Brittany (Sunday August 24 to Friday August 29, 2025)
Location: Milin Kerhé Camp-site, Pabu, Britanny, France

Come and spend a week alone, as a couple or as a family, observing, identifying and caring for the local flora and fauna. This week is for all ages, to learn how to live more sustainably while honoring God and caring for His creation. You’ll also enjoy the warm, multicultural community at this eco-friendly campsite set amidst nature in the beautiful Trieux valley. This stay will be bilingual: French and English.

More information: https://france.arocha.org/a-rocha-week-in-bretagne/

Please feel free to forward this information to your teams, volunteers, supporters, and church networks. We would love to welcome participants from your country to one or both of these weeks.”

We hope you’d consider these wonderful opportunities if you’re able to

Here’s a reminder that LWCCN is a part of Christian Climate Observers Program (CCOP) at the UN Climate Change Conference – COP 30 in Belém, Brazil, 10th – 21st of November 2025.

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 18th July

Dates: Choose one; same program:

    9th – 17th November (or)                                  

    14th – 22nd November    

Location: Belém, Brazil

Application deadline: 18th July, 2025

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

Cost: $1,000 USD [to be finalized]; participants are responsible for their own roundtrip travel. We have some scholarships available for those who require financial assistance in order 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-2025, sometime in mid to late September.

The Lausanne Movement is holding a Younger Leaders Gathering (YLG4) in Brazil in March 2027, and is looking for nominations! So, if you are aged 35 or younger and are interested in attending, or would like to nominate somebody else, please:

• Read more about YLG4
• Look at the nomination criteria
• Let us know so we can support the nomination! Please email Dave Bookless (dave.bookless@arocha.org) or Benita Simón (benitasime.3@gmail.com)

Once every 3 years leaders from A Rocha’s national organisations gather to share, pray, listen and make strategic decisions. May 10-17 saw leaders from 26 countries gather at Tagaytay in the Philippines. It was an inspiring, encouraging and moving time to learn how God is at work in creation care, sometimes in very challenging situations. Amongst the highlights were:

• Welcoming A Rocha Costa Rica and A Rocha Singapore as new national A Rocha organisations.
• Daily worship and teaching based around the Lord’s prayer: reflecting on how we seek God’s kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
• Modelling servant leadership as A Rocha International’s board chair and Executive Director symbolically washed the feet of other leaders.
• Renewed commitment to standards in safeguarding and governance, and in supporting the wider A Rocha family financially and practically.

Thursday 5^th June 2025 12:00-13:15 and 20:00-21:15 GMT

What does it mean to witness to Jesus as Lord of creation in business, industry and commerce? Are there distinctive ecological values Christians should bring to work? Are there no-go areas for Christians? How can we support and pray for Christians in positions of workplace influence?

Come to hear and discuss all these questions and more!

This webinar is a partnership between LWCCN (the Lausanne / WEA Creation Care Network), Lausanne’s BAM Network (Business as Mission), Lausanne’s Workplace Ministry and LICC (the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity).

Please register here: Lausanne.zoom.us/meeting/register/kCGRxlzGQ3Sk58-85wJHZA

Mark these future dates for our upcoming webinars!

4^th September Thursday, 11:00 & 19:00 UTC – Children & Young People in Creation Care

4^th December Thursday, 11:00 & 19:00 UTC – Creation & the Arts

In our Cover Article for this issue, Dr. Miriam Moreno cited the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Network.

She further writes:

“The LAC Network is a living testimony not only of a young continent, but of young people committed to caring for the continent and its great environmental diversity. Despite the challenges and anxieties that young people face, they have been able to raise their voices and let their creativity and commitments flow. Increasingly, these young people are becoming instrumental in mobilising their congregations to become what we at Tearfund call ‘Churches as centres of transformation’.

For young people from seven Latin American countries (Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Ecuador), the LAC Youth Network has become an inspiring space where their faith, academic training and vocation of service converge. The Network not only allows them to participate in projects they are passionate about, but also provides them with an environment in which their Christian identity is affirmed through a sense of belonging, and through a strong missionary component.

The main achievements and challenges resulting from the Network’s initiatives include: a) raising awareness of the importance of caring for creation, b) empowerment of young people, c) income generation and improvements in the local economy, d) development of skills and capacities of young people and church and community leaders. This, among other things, shows that by connecting young people from different countries, the Network fosters the exchange of experiences, resources and strategies to address the complex environmental challenges of our peoples.”

You can read more here: www.tearfund.org.au/stories/youth-against-plastic-in-latin-america

Hello dear readers! We bring you some Earth Day News!

An Invitation to Wonder was screened at the end of April. You can watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/639344584. Please lend your support to this beautiful project – now available to watch online for a small sum!

An Invitation to Wonder: Waubesa Wetlands. Embark on a journey into Waubesa Wetlands as Calvin DeWitt, a wetland scientist and Nelson Institute faculty emeritus, shares the knowledge and wisdom he has found from living on the marsh for over 50 years. Taking these lessons, his grandson, a 20-year-old filmmaker, sets out to gain a deeper understanding of the marsh and his grandfather’s unique connection with it.

Finally, most joyous news from Ezechiel Busime (Director of Mission and Development at MVC) on how the Ministère de la Vie Chrétienne (MVC), through its community development department and its association: Young Climate stewards (JIC) celebrated Earth Day.

They planted 525 trees of Congolese origin including: Meosophis and the Savonnier at the mountain overlooking the city of Uvira. This area suffers the adverse effects of climate change. We are glad to share with you these pictures of their reforestation activities, and hope this both encourages and inspires you to tend the spaces and places you are in!

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 – COP 30 in Belém, Brazil, 10th – 21st of November 2025.

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 18th July

Dates: Choose one; same program:

•     9th – 17th November (or)
•     14th – 22nd November

Location: Belém, Brazil

Application deadline: 18th July, 2025

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

Cost: $1,000 USD [to be finalized]; participants are responsible for their own roundtrip travel. We have some scholarships available for those who require financial assistance in order 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-2025, sometime in mid to late September.