• Friends of A Rocha in Croatia – Our Story

    Friends of A Rocha in Croatia – Our Story0

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    • November 12, 2024

    Friends of A Rocha in Croatia is a group of enthusiasts with a common concern for the environment. We are united by our Christian faith that motivates us to care for all that God has created. Particularly in Croatia, we realized that many people treat nature quite carelessly and awareness of environmental problems is weak. Even less awareness for the suffering of creation is found among church goers and Christians across the country.

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  • Season of Creation 2024 – Address at an Evening Service

    Season of Creation 2024 – Address at an Evening Service0

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    • November 12, 2024

    Creation speaks to us if we are open to listen. Psalm 148 has a creation choir, made up of rocks and weather and animals and last of all humans. We are simply another voice in the choir of creation.
    At the start of Paul’s letter to the Romans he writes that God’s will can be read in creation for all people just as it was written in the law for the Jews. This is why Thomas Aquinas called creation the second book of God. And I think part of what the threads of creation exhibition is doing is capturing that voice of creation.

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  • An Infusion of Hope: Reflections on the Global Creation Care Forum

    An Infusion of Hope: Reflections on the Global Creation Care Forum0

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    • November 12, 2024

    Exposure to the news cycle these days, particularly regarding the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, often elicits dread and whiffs of doom. It also consistently lacks one element vital to human flourishing and transformation: hope. However, hope was flowing in abundance at the Global Creation Care Forum (GCCF) that took place September 28-October 2, 2024. Around 110 people from 40 countries, coming from varied occupations and backgrounds, gathered at the Somang Retreat Centre in Gonjiam, Korea immediately after the 4th Lausanne Congress finished.

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  • COP29 in Baku: Faith Communities Calling for Climate Justice, Scaling Up Ambitions, and Brave Decisions

    COP29 in Baku: Faith Communities Calling for Climate Justice, Scaling Up Ambitions, and Brave Decisions0

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    • November 12, 2024

    The COP29 climate conference has officially kicked off in Baku, Azerbaijan, with approximately 30,000 delegates gathering to address the urgent climate and environmental challenges of our time. While climate action, adaptation, and environmental sustainability dominate the agenda, the conference is set against a backdrop of complex global power dynamics that shape both the conversations and outcomes.

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  • Three Strategic Prayers for COP29

    Three Strategic Prayers for COP290

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    • November 12, 2024

    Even though Azerbaijan holds the Presidency, the outcomes of COP29 are considered a joint effort with the preceding and subsequent COPs (COP28’s UAE and COP30’s Brazil). The COP Troika, as it is being called, is working closely together by jointly planning for the complicated negotiations in each of the three COPs.

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  • The Second Mark of Mission: a ‘Game Changer’

    The Second Mark of Mission: a ‘Game Changer’0

    “I thank all the western missionaries that have brought the gospel to Africa since 1910 and planted churches. Yet, this hasn’t stopped corruption, tribalism and even genocide (Rwanda), promiscuity (HIV/Aids) and other evils. Yes, in one hundred years they made a lot of believers and a lot of Church goers. But they forgot … to make disciples.”

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