Note from the Editor: The second post in a four part series on Creation Care & the Lausanne Movement by Ed Brown, Director/CEO of Care of Creation and the Senior Associate for Creation Care for the Lausanne Movement. A New Awakening? Creation Care & the Lausanne Movement is the first post in the series. ~ Thomas B. Grosh IV, Associate Director of ESN.
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About 55 people from 40 countries gathered in Jamaica on Oct 29, 2012 for five days of meetings around the subject of Creation Care and the Gospel under the auspices of the Lausanne Movement in collaboration with the World Evangelical Alliance. The meeting was organized around three themes:
- God’s World (scientific examination of the nature of the environmental crisis)
- God’s Word (theological perspectives on creation and our responsibilities as seen in the Bible)
- God’s Work (how we are, can and should be responding to these needs in partnership with God).
By remarkable and symbolic coincidence, the Consultation went into session during the same hour that Hurricane Sandy made landfall just south of New York City, having already devastated portions of the Caribbean. A number of participants were delayed or were unable to attend at all because of the associated travel disruptions, and the storm provided an important, if unwanted, reminder of the urgency of our deliberations.
It was a valuable gathering and would have been worthwhile just for the five days we spent together. [Some of the content from the Consultation is available here with video of the main talks to be posted soon; a book is expected within the next year or so.] However, one of our early goals was to produce something that would serve as an immediate guide and point of focus for the evangelical community with regard to creation care. The resulting document is the Jamaica Call to Action. [Read more…] about The Jamaica Call to Action (Part 1): Two Convictions