World Environment Day
This morning I spent some time sharing my impressions of theA Rocha Conference with contacts from other churches. Peter Harris, the founder was there and told us how he and Miranda and family struggled to get a place to live and worked on bird banding and so forth at A Rocha, Portugal. Ornithologists and students and anyone who could be invited to come along and wonder at this part of Creation and learn alongside people who could explain about migrations and endangered species joined with them. Imagine Peter, a keen birder from his youth, and convinced that God wanted us all to carry on what Adam and Eve were meant to do – help care for the rest of creation – meeting a couple of locals who had been out netting for the pot, birds slung on their belts, some even with the bands on their legs which Peter’s team had put on the year before.
Now there are eighteen countries with A Rocha groups. We are looking to see how best to share in the work here, beginning with finding out about the existing schools, groups looking out for plants,birds, fish and all, whether in churches or not.
Then I went along to see how the latest Habitat for Humanity building team were getting on, and found new trees being laid out alongside the site on the NZ Housing Foundation sites.
This is not Portugal, but there is still a lot to do.
Jim Hunt, Swanson. Waitakere City.
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