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Posted May 22, 2009 Read This

Creation care can't be separated from people care--they are intimately connected. This year at Flourish Conference we were able to profile an organization that does both well: Land of a Thousand Hills (LOATH) coffee company. LOATH primarily works in the country of Rwanda, where citizens are poor and jobless in the wake of devastating genocide....

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New Urbanism

Posted May 20, 2009 Read This


One of the most striking presentations at Flourish Conference this year a video on new urbanism called "Built to Last." It was produced by Chris Elisara of Creation Care Study Program and John Paget of Paget Films and was winner of the Congress for New Urbanism's video contest. The artistic quality of this video is through the roof and the...

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Floresta is the coolest organization you've never heard of and their program Plant with Purpose may be the neatest creation care initiative around today. Through Plant with Purpose, Floresta is working to reverse poverty and deforestation by planting trees internationally. They currently have programs in Mexico, Tanzania, Haiti, and the...

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This week, Cross Pointe Church hosted the first annual Flourish Conference. As a small part of the Flourish staff, I can tell you that the conference exceeded our expectations in many ways. First, our speaker list was amazing: Joel Hunter, Margaret Feinberg, Gabe Lyons, Matthew Sleeth, and Andy Crouch to name a few. Second, the community being...

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Recently, I had the opportunity to screen Disneynature's debut film, Earth. I was so impressed by the movie that I wrote a review for Relevant. The movie is narrated by James Earl Jones and follows the lives of three animal families as they overcome amazing circumstances. The film is replete with life lessons and redemptive elements that...

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An interesting article in today's AJC: "Pastor Sees Care of Earth as Duty"


At the end of it, I mention Flourish Conference 2009 by saying "I think [this conference] is going to be the primary touch point for the church to get involved in the 21st century."

Check out the article and the conference.

Update: ABP Article on Flourish

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The Catalyst Conference is one of the largest and most exciting gathering of Christian leaders annually. In between conferences, the Catalyst staff provides a whole ton of products and services at their online home, CatalystSpace. One of their best products is the Catalyst Podcast, which features some of the most interesting and influential...

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If you are in church leadership of any kind, you don't want to miss Flourish Conference 2009. This event will feature some of the most popular speakers and authors in the United States including Chris Seay, Albert Mohler, Rick McKinley, Ed Stetzer, Margaret Feinberg, Joel Hunter, James Merritt, Matthew Sleeth, Gabe Lyons and others. Not only...

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