If you wish to participate in the Environmental Missions Consultation (July 12-16, 2010) and desire more information as it comes available, please contact us.
Watch in 2011 for the
The Summer Institute of Environmental Missions
Co-sponsored by Care of Creation, the Summer Institute of Environmental Missions is a three-week program which will:
- train the professional graduate in cross-cultural ministry skills
- train the Bible college/seminary graduate in environmental development skills
- train both types of student in the integration of evangelism/discipleship with effective creation care (i.e. environmental missions)
The location of the Institute will be an 89-acre farm in rural Geary County near Manhattan, KS, home of the Konza Prairie and gateway to the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, one of the world’s most important eco-systems. (The Institute will feature ample conservation and horticulture fieldwork.) The teaching team will include world-class experts dedicated to mobilizing the Church for creation care and environmental missions. Some of the sessions planned include:
- Theological and biblical foundations of Creation Care
- Environmental missions: integrated church-planting and creation care
- Approaching global climate change through missions
- How to do environmental assessments
- Principles and practice of reforestation
- Earth-friendly agriculture (including Care of Creation’s curriculum: “Farming God’s Way”)
- Care of a local watershed
- Appropriate technologies, include use of small-scale renewable energy
- Basics of cross-cultural ministry
- Introduction to missions training: language acquisition, people group orientation
