Helping people live greener and lighter
For Churches
Teaching on creation care does not have to be complicated. This resource provides the outline for a half-hour discussion on our calling to care for creation.
Creation Care 101: Slides (Updated 2023)
Creation Care 101: Slides & Presenter’s Notes (Updated 2023)
For Kids & Schools
A Rocha USA‘s Wild Wonder Camp Curriculum helps parents and churches get kids outside and sparks their imaginations as they learn about God and explore the world around them. You can purchase these digital packages for use in your church or neighbourhood.
Community Gardening Resources
Also has ideas to engage kids, good gardening book suggestions and theological reflections.
Living Lighter
Climate Change
A Rocha Canada and Regent College present Katharine Hayhoe, one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2014. Katharine is a Christian and an atmospheric scientist who studies climate change. She may be best known for the way she is bridging the gap between science and faith.
Earthkeeping: A Climate for Change featured a talk by Katharine, followed by a response panel including Peter Robinson (CEO – David Suzuki Foundation), Preston Manning, and Jeffrey Greenman (President – Regent College).
Peter Harris (co-founder A Rocha International) introduces the evening.
Tyndale University College & Seminary and A Rocha Canada are excited to present A Climate for Change: Paris and Beyond with special guest speaker Dr. Katharine Hayhoe. She is known for integrating faith with science and her work has been featured on Showtime’s Emmy award-winning documentary series “Years of Living Dangerously.”
Katharine’s presentation explores a Christian response to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. Lorna Dueck of Context hosted the evening and facilitated a lively panel discussion with:
- Dr. Terry LeBlanc: Director, North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies
- Rev. David Wells: General Superintendent, The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
- Gordon King: Resource Specialist, Canadian Baptist Ministries
Books & Audio
Beginning from a keen awareness of their Christian responsibility to the environment and their neighbours, Peter and Miranda develop a vision for a project that combines cross-cultural evangelism, community living and conservation. This book describes their experiences, the challenges that were overcome, and the people involved in making it happen. It also provides an exploration of the Christian commitment to conservation as an act of worship and of mission.
God Doesn’t Do Waste is a story about the messiness that human beings wade through in every area of their lives, and about a God who can take all that seems most wasteful and useless and recycle it into something of infinite worth.
Bonus – this audio comes with video, including slides of David’s presentation!
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