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Monthly Archives: September 2014
Christian Camping and Creation Care – a formula for success!
Originally posted September 27th, 2011. I (Brittany) am now a UW-Madison graduate and a full-time staff member at Care of Creation.
This summer Brittany Ederer, a student at UW-Madison, served as an intern in the Care of Creation office in Madison. Based on her interest in camping, education nature and environment, we assigned her to start a survey project of Christian camps in Wisconsin, the upper Midwest and then throughout the country. Are there Christian camps who are actively promoting creation care as part of their camp program? Are they using creation care principles in caring for their properties? This blog post is a preliminary report on a visit to one camp not far from Madison. It turns out one of the best examples of creation care at camp is right in our own back yard. We’re looking forward to a complete report from Brittany later on, but in the meantime, enjoy her thoughts on what’s going on at Timber-lee…
What is Care of Creation? A Personal Reflection…
Care of Creation’s Kermit Hovey, Director of Operations and Development, weighs in with his first monthly blog post to Our Father’s World.
What is Care of Creation?
It is many things – attitude, activity, vision, 
mission, method, lifestyle and more. For me it is especially a fresh call, a poetic understanding and a hopeful dream. It is also a small faith-based Christian environmental action outreach mission & ministry with a global reach headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin (www.CareOfCreation.org). Somehow, it is all those things at once.
My Fresh Call to Care of Creation
I can’t remember when I have not felt an essential general call to know, follow, obey and honor God. More specifically, in and through the words of my step-grandfather to me as a young kid, I received, promptly put aside yet never totally abandoned a call to pastoral ministry. As I walked my faith out through adolescence to the brink of college I chose to attempt to do it all. As an adult with an Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s degree I volunteered in church for various pastoral, leadership and caring roles while I worked professionally in Continue reading
Farming God’s Way: A picture’s worth a lot of words…
Originally published October 17, 2011. Care of Creation Kenya continues to collect data on their farming demonstration plots, and after 3.5 years, 27 trials with 5 different crops, they have found Farming God’s Way plots are 250% more productive than adjacent control plots. Now that’s awesome!
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 Projects” in the drop-down list).
Click through for another picture…
We Are Purpose-Givers
I love when I get asked a tough question from someone who is older and wiser, because it keeps me on my toes and constantly in conversation with the Holy Spirit. I was leading a small group discussion on creation care in Milwaukee, and Bob turned our conversation from theory to visceral reality with this doozy… Continue reading
Notes from a volcanic eruption in Iceland
Guest post by Bob White on the Holuhraun Eruption, Iceland, September 2014. Cross-posted from the Science and Belief blog.
Robert (Bob) White, FRS is Professor of Geophysics at Cambridge University and Director of The Faraday Institute. He has recently published a book on Natural Disasters called Who is to Blame?
Nature, Disasters and Acts of God, (Oxford: Lion Hudson), 207 pp. ISBN 978-0-85721-4737
We arrived at the eruption site around midnight on 1st September 2014. We were fortunate to be there because it is in a 10,000 square kilometre exclusion zone in the interior of Iceland due to the danger of volcanic gases, floods and ash plumes. As scientists monitoring earthquakes caused by the eruption my team and I were part of just a handful of people allowed in. We stood in the middle of a black volcanic desert 3,000 feet high. The darkness of the night was uninterrupted by any human lights. And we knew there was no-one else within at least 100 kilometres of us in any direction. Continue reading