Our friends at the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) have developed a new program to train “Creation Care Champions” – people who will be equipped to give presentations in their own churches and communities.

Here’s the blurb from Alexei Laushkin, host of the program:

The Creation Care Teaching (CCT) Institute is a series of teaching modules for those interested in learning more about creation care, developing their creation care expertise, and/or for those who might want to speak about creation care to their church, school, and or local community. CCT offers monthly teleconference trainings on a wide range of creation care topics including: the biblical basis for creation care, global Christianity and creation care, climate change, mercury & the unborn, deforestation, relief and development work, protecting wild places, sustainable agriculture, evangelism, creation care as discipleship, green buildings, and much more.

For more information email support@creationcare.org

And actually, you need to do it right away – the next session will be held at 3 pm this Thursday, October 20. The topic is Creation Care and the Lausanne Cape Town Commitment with guest presenter Lowell Bliss (one of the occasional authors on this blog).

It’s free, and well worth your time – but you’ll need to contact Alexei via the email address above to get the call-in instructions and to have the material emailed to you.

Tell him Ed sent you…

Farming God’s Way is part of Care of Creation’s program in Kenya.  Essentially conservation no-till farming wrapped in a strong envelope of biblical teaching, the program consistently produces yields many times that produced with conventional farming techniques, even in – or better, especially in drought years like the one we’re in now, along with farmers who have a strong biblical framework for their farming work.  440% increased yield is nothing to sneeze at… but enough words!  Here’s a picture just received from Craig Sorley with his comments below:

From Craig:

Attached is a photo from the creation stewardship and farming God’s way workshop we held for 3 days last week with 30 farmers from Mai Mahiu and Ndeiya.  We harvested our onion crop with them.  The control plot produced 17.3kg of onions (as seen on the left of the photo) and the FGW plot produced 76.9 kg (as seen on the right).  The FGW plot produced 4.4 times greater yield!!!

Want to help Craig do more work like this?  Donate here!  (Select “Care of Creation Kenya Project” in the drop-down list).

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Guest post: Lowell Bliss of Eden Vigil

“Wangari Maathai–Nobel laureate, founder of the Green Belt Movement, and sister-in-Christ Jesus–passed away on Sunday, Sept. 25, at the age of 71.  We at Eden Vigil wish her the joy of her resurrection.”

Ed has asked that I post this latest issue of the Environmental Missions Prayer Digest, something I’m happy to do.  But first let me forward a story from Ed himself.  On Sept. 28, Ed wrote:

Wangari was a good friend of Care of Creation Kenya. . . . She did attend a 2006 God and Creation conference – funny story there:  She had been invited and finally showed up on the last day of the conference.  They had to give her platform time which turned out to be right before my presentation, which was to be the closing talk of the conference.  Well, she took the entire slot (45 minutes) which meant that by the time I got up to talk, it was already past lunchtime…  wouldn’t have worked in the US, but these were Africans – so I just pretended there was no clock in the room and took my entire time as well (and then some, as I recall!).  I had the honor of a future-Nobelist telling me after that she ‘enjoyed my talk very much.’ Of course, at that time we had no idea that she would be winning the Nobel.

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Attention, Students!

If you…

• Have an interest in caring for God’s creation
• Can put together a video
• Could use a thousand dollars

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