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It grew out of A Rocha, the global Christian organisation engaging communities across the world in nature conservation, and Dave Bookless, my Travellers’ Tales guest this week, is its director of theology, and he started the UK branch of the organisation 20 years ago.
Dave is hugely inspirational, not least because he’s been on quite an eco-journey himself, and talks about the moment, as he threw away the family’s rubbish while on holiday on the beautiful Scilly Isles, when he heard God speak: “How do you think I feel about what you are doing to my world?” Since then he’s been on a mission – to encourage us all to grab hold of the connection between our faith and loving the planet.
I’m sure Dave will inspire you, as he has me, and thousands of others
As Christians we have a good deal of catching up to do in our care of the world we believe was created by God, and with the dangers of the climate emergency only too clear, and already having a devastating impact on some of the poorest people in the world – the neighbours we’re instructed by Jesus to love – the need to act has never been more urgent, but our feeling of helplessness has perhaps never been stronger.
Wonderfully, Eco Church gives you a roadmap. It’s enriched our life as a church in ways we couldn’t have imagined when we began a few years ago (there honestly isn’t a downside), so I would absolutely encourage you to have a look at https://ecochurch.arocha.org.uk/ to find out more.
Michaela Youngson is starting a new job later this year - though she was at pains to point out that my description of her becoming no2 in Methodist Church hierarchy wasn’t entirely accurate, as ‘hierarchy’ isn’t the way the Methodists do it! Fair enough….but it is a big role, which she’s excited about stepping into.
