Daniel wrote this past week to tip us off to a new organization…
Gotta love it. They aren’t a sending organization. Rather, they work *with* sending organizations to train, prepare, and send you as an “eco-missionary.” Suddenly, it’s ok to be a tree-hugger! :-) They’ve partnered with another group…
which will come to your church and do a seminar on creation care. (See their great video there, by the way.) Now before you scoff about tree-huggers, give this some thought. How might this concept serve you or your platform as a creative and effective means of gaining access to a previously sealed-off location. And… could it be that Al Gore might end up not only inventing the internet :-) , but also help us all reach the unreached? :-) Love it. I’m signing up today. :-)
But seriously… there’s something to this. If we’re poisoning creation, is there not a sin problem here somewhere? I’m going to ask the guy to come do a seminar at Emerald Hills and try to get everybody in town to come. :-) Join me. (Thanks Daniel!)
Thanks, Doug (and Daniel) for the kind write-up about Eden Vigil and our friends at Care of Creation. I’ve seen that people with a heart for the least-reached are among the first to “get it” regarding environmental missions.
Meanwhile, you motivated me to update our simple website to include the details of our Summer Institute of Environmental Missions. It’s all on there now under “Trainee.”
And finally, I join you in recommending Ed’s seminar. Ed (as in Rev. Ed Brown, director of Care of Creation) did a seminar at our church in March and it was very well-received. He’s personable and his teaching is strongly biblical.
See you at Urbana! Thank you for all you do, Brigada.
It’s great to see a Christian organization finally getting the word out that Christians *should be* at the forefront of the conservation movement. Stewardship is a biblical mandate. However, I must take strong exception to the following line located at the bottom of Care of Creation’s home page: “Care of Creation™, Our Father’s World™ and Mobilizing The Church™ are trademarks of Care of Creation, Inc. ” Perhaps I had better rush out and stake my legal claim to “Church Planting” and “Reaching the Lost” before I end up in copyright infringement because some other mission org got there first?
It is interesting that Francis Schaeffer in 1970 wrote a small book called “Pollution and the Death of Man”. Very few Christians noticed this work – 40 years before its time. It is a good bases to develop a good biblical world view on this subject.
Trevor – thanks for the observation! We’ll discuss, though I’m not sure our situation is different from others who have adopted (presumably protected) names like “World Vision” or “Back to the Bible”!