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Welcome to the August edition of Creation Challenge!

Don’t forget you still have time to book and come along to Greenbelt over the Bank Holiday weekend and visit our stand and all the environmental organisations featured in the G Source exhibition tent. http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

Also resources are available from CTBI to help you celebrate a time for creation, between 1 September and 4 October. The theme this year is Creation Flourishing – A time for Celebration and Care, linking into the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity. CTBI Resources

The network exists to support the work of individuals and churches throughout our denominations so please share any news, tips, experiences or questions that you have where churches’ and your own engagement with the environment are concerned.

Best wishes,

Dave Coaker, Creation Challenge, Coordinator

Creation Challenge newsletter

Welcome to the June edition of Creation Challenge!

An exciting piece of news is that we will be part of a new ‘green zone’ at the Greenbelt festival at Cheltenham race course over the August Bank Holiday weekend. The ‘green zone’ brings together all the environmental organisations featured in the G Source exhibition tent. CEL is taking the lead in this area which we will have a display alongside them, A Rocha, Ecocongregation, the Quakers, and others. If could you spare us some time to help staff it you can sign up for just one two-hour slot, but if you can spare more it would be a great help. Please let Paul Bodenham know if you can help: paul@christian-ecology.org.uk

For more info about the festival go to: http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

The network exists to support the work of individuals and churches throughout our denominations so please share any news, tips, experiences or questions that you have where churches’ and your own engagement with the environment are concerned.

Best wishes,
Dave Coaker – Creation Challenge, Coordinator

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Happy Easter and Welcome to the March edition of Creation Challenge!

So they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid._{Mark 16:8}^

 This is the first of three alternate endings to Mark’s gospel. The fear of the women after meeting the figure in the empty tomb makes them dumb. Of course the story can’t end there so the early scribes add two other endings. But is it there to spur us on? Their amazement made them silent, but we will speak out! We will continue the story!

 Silence, apathy, or failure to make it a priority are common responses to the ‘terror and amazement’ that the issue of climate change instils in us as individuals, churches, communities and nations. God’s Creation is so complex, the interconnections so intricate, the decisions so major, that we’ll leave it to THEM. THEM being anybody else but us; the UN, G8, our own government, or our really keen recycling neighbour.

Just as the Gospel challenges each of us individually to respond to it, so does climate change. Our choices affect the world around us. Our example can affect our neighbours. Our decisions can influence our government’s. Just because we don’t know exactly how the story will end shouldn’t stop us from living it, telling it, and doing what we can to make it a happier one.

The network exists to support the work of individuals and churches throughout our denominations so please share any news, tips, experiences or questions that you have where churches’ and your own engagement with the environment are concerned.

Best wishes,

Dave Coaker Creation Challenge, Coordinator

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Happy New Year and Welcome to the January edition of Creation Challenge!

I hope this finds you wrapped up warm and prepared for the days of ‘Frozen Britain’ the BBC news keeps talking about to cheer us up! (more…)

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Welcome to the November edition of Creation Challenge!

The new website is now up and running, and being updated much more regularly than previously. So we really want to hear from you! We want to hear your stories, reflections, and opinions about what is being shared.

This Advent as we prepare for Christmas is made even more poignant as world leaders gather in Copenhagen to make preparations for the next global response to Climate Change so please read the JPIT briefing.

The network exists to support the work of individuals and churches throughout our denominations so please share any news, tips, experiences or questions that you have where churches’ and your own engagement with the environment are concerned.

Best wishes,

Dave Coaker

Creation Challenge, Coordinator

Welcome to the new and improved Creation Challenge website!

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Welcome to the July edition of Creation Challenge!
My sincere apologies that we missed the April edition, the only excuse I can offer is that I moved pastorates in April.

So as we continue into Summer, with its apparently random mix of sunshine and showers, let us give mind to the events that are coming up this autumn and the roles that we can play both locally, nationally and internationally, in acting for change and doing our part in living it out. (more…)

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