• 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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  • The art of being a Christian teacher

    The art of being a Christian teacher0

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    • September 5, 2024

    The art of being a Christian teacher is to become like the teacher who is the Divine Artist.
    You may consider teaching an art, a craft, a skill, possibly even a science, but it is most definitely a vocation, a calling. If we are called by Jesus into something, we can anticipate a number of things coming with that calling. We grow in faith as we pursue our calling and learn to trust in His equipping, wisdom, strength, perseverance and joy.

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  • Teaching on politics?

    Teaching on politics?0

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    • September 5, 2024

    As socio-political challenges and tensions grow, as debate can become vicious, many Christians feel it is safer to keep out of the way of politics. When the word “Evangelical” is seen by some as a toxic, political label, some of us hide while others want to push back forcefully. The average local church does not dare touch on current affairs in its teaching ministry for fear of opening up division. It seems wiser to stick to teaching on the Gospel and discipleship.

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