The Reconciliation of All Things

A practical way of Caring for Creation that we are doing at TEAM, opening doors to share the gospel! Check out this video.

One of my favorite things to do is to be outside in God's marvelous creation. Of course, even better than this is doing it with my family! Each weekend we try to explore someplace new in the area, a park, some trails, anything outside. So, here is a video and a photo of our last outing this past weekend.

I came across an article/documentary that was made about the c onflicts between the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the watermen of Tangier Island, Virginia, as well as farmers in Clearville, Pennsylvania, over the watermen’s harvest of blue crabs and the farmers’ land-use practices. This is a Creation Care topic that was dealt with in a very commendable manner. It is creation care because the environment, God's creation, that which we depend on, was being negatively impacted by people's practices, but it was also in turn having negative consequences on people who make a living off what God has given them. This is something we at TEAM care about--when the environment has a detrimental impact on people's lives, we want to step in to make a difference and share the eternal hope of Jesus in the midst of the pain and improve their lives physically and  spiritually. There was a dramatic transformation that took place among the Tangier islanders and Pennsylvania farmers from the ...

A coworker at TEAM forwarded this video to me the other day--very interesting! If you live in America, you can do this too, just need to have some land to do it! Imagine, a forest in your own backyard! Sure would help with cleaner air if we planted these all throughout our cities! The neat thing about it is that they are using native species, not invasive, non-native species, to do this. I love what we're doing doing at TEAM now with our Creation Care Initiative...take a look at team.org , "How we serve" and click on the Creation Care button.