Dave Bookless has shared an excellent summary of the final conference in the LWCCN Global Campaign for Creation Care and the Gospel campaign.

The report can be accessed below.

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Last month we noted the ending of the Lausanne/WEA Creation Care and the Gospel Global Campaign with our final conference for the Middle East North Africa region that was held in Jordan. Christianity Today’s Middle Eastern correspondent was at the conference and interviewed Lausanne Catalyst Ed Brown on a variety of subjects.

Here’s the Introduction. Click here for the web article.

If the world is at stake, stewardship of creation must be global. And with an evangelical passion akin to world missions, Ed Brown is preaching ecology to the nations.

One region at a time.

Following initial consultations in Jamaica in 2012, Brown became the Lausanne Movement’s catalyst for creation care and helped build out the Lausanne/World Evangelical Alliance Creation Care Network (LWCCN). The goal was to amplify a conviction forged two years earlier in Cape Town, South Africa, at the third Lausanne Congress: Creation care is a gospel issue within the Lordship of Christ.

Since then, LWCCN has conducted conferences in 12 regions drawing delegates from over 120 nations. Concluding earlier this month in Jordan for the Middle East and North Africa, Brown and his colleagues addressed local issues for a region experts warn is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world.

And the UN is cued in. Its 27th climate change conference, COP27, begins November 6 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, with COP28 scheduled next year in the United Arab Emirates’s Abu Dhabi.

Brown served previously as chief operating officer for the evangelical Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies, and today is a fellow at the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He founded Care of Creation, Inc. in 2005, and is author of Our Father’s World: Mobilizing the Church to Care for Creation.

In Amman, he spoke with CT about the challenge of politics, the response of missionaries, and the drastic impact environmental changes will soon have on ministry to one’s neighbors.

The Global Campaign for Creation Care and the Gospel began in November 2012 with the Jamaica Consultation. At that meeting an idea was born to bring the creation care message to the global church as quickly as possible. Ten years later, even with a global pandemic, we can say that this goal has been accomplished.

The last planned conference was held just last week in Ajloun Jordan, with almost 50 people gathering from almost all of the countries in the region. Speakers and participants included Las Newman, Global Director for Regions for Lausanne, Michael El Daba, Lausanne’s Regional Director for MENA, and Jack Sara, Secretary General for the Middle East North Africa Alliance of the WEA.

We will eventually release a summary report from the 10 year campaign. But for now we rejoice that God has allowed the dream conceived in Jamaica to be finally brought to fulfillment in that part of the world where the Gospel began – the Middle East.

Since 2012, the Global Campaign has held 10 regional conferences. The campaign will climax with a worldwide creation care event sometime in the latter half of 2022. Watch for details! In the meantime, we’re excited about our last two conferences. Dates and venues have been confirmed, and registration for Middle East/North Africa is open now!

Here are the details:

• Middle East and North Africa Conference 29 April to 3 May, 2020 This conference will be held at the Anaphora Retreat Center in Zamalek, Egypt. Click for more information and a link to the registration page.
• Central Europe Conference 12-16 October, 2020 This conference will be held in Cluj Napoca, Romania at Vila Diakonia. This is an invitation-only conference. Registration will open soon – click here for more information.