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)

In the Cover Article for our last issue of the Pollinator, Lausanne Catalyst Dave Bookless discussed the ‘Korean Invitation’—an initiative that emerged from the Global Creation Care Forum held in South Korea. Further, recordings for two webinars held on the matter were shared.

We apologise for omitting the passcode for these in the previous issue. Here they are:

Webinar 1 (featuring Jasmine Kwong, Kuki Rokhum, Richard Sempala, Rei Crizaldo, Caroline Pomeroy, Ryoung Kim, Julio Reis, Juliana Morillo & Dave Bookless) 

Passcode: f9%E331*

Webinar 2 (featuring Laura Yoder, Jeong Jee-Hye, Samuel Chiu, Maria Alejandra Andrade, Edgar Pollard, Jocabed Solano Miselis, Matheus Ortega, Michael Jemphrey, Juliana Morillo & Dave Bookless)

Passcode: hiV.S7A!

We encourage you to give these a listen, and warmly welcome your participation and support for the ‘Korean Invitation’. To that end, we welcome you to read the Invitation both carefully and prayerfully and, if possible, to sign it using this form.

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

HAPPENING SOON!! Mark your calendars!

The 4^th Lausanne Congress and the Global Creation Care Forum (GCCF) were both important for the future of creation care globally. Don’t miss this update from those who were there! 

Leaders from around the world will share their reflections on both these events. We will also introduce the statement/invitation ‘Good News for all the Earth’—there will be time for questions!

Time: 11.00 am – 12.00pm UTC, repeated 7.00pm – 8.00pm UTC | Date: 12 December 2024

The webinar will be on Zoom and is free entry.

Sign up here: https://buytickets.at/lwccn/1451019, choosing which timing you prefer!

Please note that there is an optional donation to cover LWCCN’s costs.

If you haven’t yet seen it, this short video below from GCCF is well worth a view!

(Editor’s Note: We sincerely apologise for how belatedly you are receiving this news!)

We would like to draw your attention to an A Rocha-hosted conversation by Dr Rodel Lasco, A Rocha International Trustee and Director of the Oscar M Lopez Center. Rodel is a member of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), an expert on biodiversity, and a pastor.

“Our planetary life support systems are starting to fray under the weight of human activities. Come and hear Rodel’s appraisal of the current state of biodiversity globally, how we can respond with hopeful action, and the exciting plans for A Rocha’s growing presence in South East Asia.”

Time: 13.00 – 14.00 UTC | Date: 11 November 2024

Tickets (free! with an optional donation to A Rocha) are available here.

(Editor’s Note: We sincerely apologise for how belatedly you are receiving this news!)

This news is hot off the press!

The 4^th Lausanne Congress and the Global Creation Care Forum (GCCF) were both important for the future of creation care globally. Don’t miss this update from those who were there! 

Leaders from around the world will share their reflections on both these events. We will also introduce the statement/invitation ‘Good News for all the Earth’—there will be time for questions!

Time: 11.00 am – 12.00pm UTC, repeated 7.00pm – 8.00pm UTC | Date: 12 December 2024

The webinar will be on Zoom and is free entry.

Sign up here: https://buytickets.at/lwccn/1451019, choosing which timing you prefer!

Please note that there is an optional donation to cover LWCCN’s costs.

If you haven’t yet seen it, this short video from GCCF is well worth a view!

Save the Date! 

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

Registration link: https://shorturl.at/HrFTb

Mark your calendars! The next LWCCN Webinar is here!

Join us in a couple of days for an inspiring webinar on Placemaking and Creation Care: A Christian Perspective, where we delve into the intersection of Christian faith, community, urban design, and creation care.

Dr. Chris Elisara, director of the WEA Sustainability Center, and friends will discuss the biblical foundations for Christian placemaking, offering toolsets and skillsets to help transform cities, towns, and neighborhoods into thriving places commensurate with God’s vision of shalom. Whether you’re a community leader, church member, or passionate creation care advocate, this webinar will help equip you to reimagine and work towards creating thriving cities, towns, and villages, which by definition are ecologically sustainable.

Register now to be part of this transformative conversation!

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!

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

Sign up here!

On March 27, Tearfund launched Abundant Community Theology. This 90-min webinar celebrated the conclusion of a research project on environmental and economic sustainability. 

Maria Ale Andrade V and Clark Buys began by presenting Tearfund’s Abundant Community Theology (ACT). They talked about cultivating an abundant community mindset over that of a scarcity mindset: this prioritizes relationship over individual identity, a shared home over competitive market, generosity over greed, and better distribution over more production solutions.

Prof. Must Dube followed this presentation with a critical reflection on ACT. She highlighted the importance of contextual theology with concern for the communities included and excluded within our conversation. She raised the need for decolonized theology and mentioned that ‘…a spirit of inclusion does not mean a spirit of equality’. She also emphasised the importance of lament with God and God’s creation for ‘…naming oppression, calling for change and justice for earth’. She ended by reminding us that the good news extends to all creation and underscored the transformative nature of salvation.

Dave Bookless offered an overview of creation care theology trends. He first began by highlighting how early creation care theology existed among Desert Fathers, Coptic Christians, Celtic Christians, and even early evangelicals. He discussed how a great reversal took place when a fear of science, liberal theology and ‘social gospel’ concerns emerged. Integral Mission was rediscovered through the aid of theologians such as René Padilla, Samuel Escobar, and John Stott. Currently, we are witnessing a rise of eco-theologies, including liberation theologies, interfaith theologies and post-colonial and indigenous theologies. Finally, he named a few future trends including:

a) rethinking ‘stewardship’
b) questioning ‘anthropocentrism’
c) cultivating theologies of lament, loss and hope
d) exploring intersectionality of ecotheology among other issues like gender, decolonization, and so on.

A link to the recording of this webinar will be shared in the next Pollinator.

Paper: Abundant Community Theology – Buys & Andrade V. (2023). Abundant Community Theology: A Case Study in Decolonial Theological Research. Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy 5(1), Summer2023.

Video: Tearfund – Enough for All