One of our readers, David Melville, has shared a recent BBC broadcast on pollination that’s remarkably fascinating:
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We hope you find this an enjoyable listen – perhaps especially noteworthy for our readers in the northern hemisphere, where Spring is fast approaching!

We began the year with an excellent first LWCCN webinar, bringing together participants across the globe for a meaningful time of discussion and regional sharing. More than 100 people registered across two time zones, and while attendance was slightly lower, we had representation from all the global regions, and rich conversations in the regional breakout groups.

We are glad to share with you both the recording of the webinar and the PowerPoint slides for this.

Note: The webinar recording combines highlights from both time slots on Feb 26.

Do note the future dates and other events lined up over the year—we are encouraged by your participation and prayer!

The recording may also be found on LWCCN’s brand-new YouTube channel! Subscribe to @LausanneWEACreationCareNetwork to stay informed and empowered to care for creation.

Calvin B. DeWitt is a pioneer in the evangelical creation care movement and has spent decades championing the call for Christians everywhere to attend closely to and care for creation. His latest project—a joint venture with his grandson—An Invitation to Wonder: Waubesa Wetlands, offers a deeply personal glimpse into the beauty and wisdom of this good earth. We’re delighted to share this with you!

Calvin is a professor emeritus of Environmental Studies at the Nelson Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His development of Au Sable Institute brought him the Friends of the United Nations 500 award. His books, Earthwise: A Guide to Hopeful Creation Care and Song of a Scientist: The Harmony of a God-Soaked Creation, are valuable resources for Christians interested in caring for Creation. 

Much of his work is deeply inspired by the magnificent Waubesa Wetlands preserve in Wisconsin, where he lives with his wife, Ruth. Recently, he teamed up with his grandson, Ben Albert, to produce this film:

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. 

The film premieres on March 16, 2025.

Tune in for its live debut on PBS Wisconsin at 6:30 PM CST, or stream it online that same day at waubesafilm.com. This is a great resource for churches to begin conversations about creation care in their communities. For more information about bringing the film to your community, do check out waubesafilm.com. 

We hope you’ll leap at this wonderful opportunity to watch this film!

Rev. Dr. Alesana Pala’amo of the Congregational Christian Church of Samoa offers a compelling call to action in this short video.

The video highlights the protection of the Manumea, or Tooth-billed Pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris)—the national bird of Samoa, a unique large pigeon, the only member of its genus, and globally endangered with only c.200 surviving in the wild!

The video thus challenges Samoans, who are overwhelmingly Christian, with the biblical call to care for creation: “We are caretakers of creation … We have been entrusted with this task of saving his [God’s] environment.” 

Watch the video here: youtube.com/watch?v=cl8G_JQdAzE&t=3s.

Thumbnail image credit: CloudSurfer (CC BY-SA)

2025’s First LWCCN Webinar: What’s going on in Creation Care 2025: Global & Regional

Wednesday 26th February, 11:00 or 19:00 GMT

Book your ticket: https://buytickets.at/lwccn/1551485, choosing which timing you prefer!

What’s going on with Creation Care in 2025? When are the key meetings and what will they be looking at? Do you have a sense of anxiety and fear due to global events or can you find reasons for hope? How about in your region?

This webinar will both give an overview of key global moments and meetings, and also break into regional rooms to share what’s happening (or you want to happen) in your own region. At our Global Creation Care Forum there was a strong desire for more regional networking, so here’s your chance to get that started! 

Please note, the webinar is free. You can either accept or decline the invitation to contribute towards LWCCN costs.

Mark these dates! The LWCCN Webinars for the rest of 2025

29^th May Thursday, 11:00 & 19:00 UTC– Creation care in the Workplace

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

Friends, are you seeking stories, insight and encouragement on what caring for creation looks like around the world?

We would like to remind you and draw your attention to a precious resource that does just that! Do check out www.creationcarestories.com

Our Lausanne Catalyst, Jasmine Kwong writes: 

“This new website hosts a collection of short films featuring stories of people of faith in God’s creation. These short films highlight creation care stories in different contexts, including a fisherman-pastor living in a rural, coastal community and a local church in a big city. These videos can be used for personal reflection, and can also serve as a launching pad for discussion in small groups and communities.”

Further, the website has since been updated with discussion questions alongside the videos—to foster further thought, engagement, and dialogue! www.creationcarestories.com/resources

Feel free to contact Creation Care Stories for more information at connect@creationcarestories.com

In our last Pollinator issue, we drew your attention to critical reflections on COP29—the 29^th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, the key global summit addressing challenges and issues of climate change of our time, by climate scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe and a statement from the World Council of Churches on COP29.

In relation to that, we offer here some links from the participants of the Christian Climate Observers Program (CCOP2024@COP 29), carefully compiled by Samuel Chiu.

CCOP is a joint program by 15+ Christian organizations, providing immersive discipleship and training at the annual UN Climate Conferences (UNFCCC COPs) for young Christian climate advocates, scholars, and ministry leaders. This year at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, CCOP had 25 participants from 12 nations, plus 7 leaders providing guidance, teaching and logistic support.

You can find a collection of their reflections, blog posts, interviews and so on here: CCOP2024 Team Members – Reports, Blogs, Articles, Reflections. This publicly accessible page is an ongoing collection, with new links to be added when received from the team in the next couple of months.

We hope these aid your awareness, consideration and prayerful reflection of the COP happenings!

Dear friends, we draw your attention to a new book written by Phillip Donnell, leader of New Creation New Zealand, a Christian environmental organisation specialising in a Kiwi perspective.

Having been involved in the conversation movement for most of his life, Phillip weaves together the hundreds of poems, studies, essays, articles and reflections from his 25 years of experience in this book, with the hope that these will increase awareness of the huge environmental challenges that face us and incite active participation in addressing them.

Questions include classics such as ‘What does ‘have dominion really mean?’ and ‘Is creation care a moral issue?’ to intriguing ones such as ‘Would Jesus go hunting?’.

Each chapter contains an introductory comment, a summary, and questions for reflection and discussion. This book is essential reading for any individual or faith community wanting to actively pursue the commission to “tend and keep” what God has made.

“a tender, insightful masterpiece”
Donald Carter, Parish Pastor, Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Tauranga

To order your copy, please contact newcreationnewzealand@gmail.com, indicating your name, address, and number of copies. Payment details will then be notified. Once payment is made, your books will be sent to you. To find out more about NCNZ, see https://newcreationnewzealand.org.nz.

Dear readers, see https://www.philmpark.com/copy-of-article for the work of Joonhee Elliot Park in highlighting this critical issue of plastic recycling.

He writes,

“The pandemic has given us the indulgence of unlimited use of single-use waste for public health. Humanity will eventually overcome the pandemic, but the disposable masks and plastic containers thrown into our oblivion will leave a genetic mark on our minds and habits, which will come back to us later with a greater calamity. While individuals and societies focus only on the air, water, and food that enter our bodies, we forget that the things we emit are destroying individuals and society into an irreversible state.

This documentary attempts to observe the problem of garbage not from a materialistic point of view but as a discourse of mind and memory, relationship, and future. In particular, by focusing on recycling waste, the goal is to question and update the audience’s current perception, which is merely an enlightening discourse on the economic benefits of circulating resources and the conservation of ecosystems.”

We are excited to feature Dr. Katharine Hayhoe’s plenary talk at the 4^th Lausanne Congress in Korea, now available on YouTube.

Do give her session on Faith and the Future of Creation a listen! She insightfully outlines the integration of faith and climate science in this talk, explores the biblical concept of ‘dominion’, examines today’s pressing climate challenges, and a offers theological framing for our practical action in response.

We highly recommend setting aside a few minutes—only 19!—to listen to her talk!