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The Environmental Missions Prayer Digest is an e-letter published free-of-charge monthly that highlights just two-or-three prayer requests whereby we can participate in God's love for his created people and world.  Environmental missions integrates the preaching of the Good News of Jesus Christ with care for God's creation.  Revisit old prayer digests through this archive, and sign up to receive the current digest.  And please visit us at our website www.edenvigil.org.

We commend you to the Holy Spirit that you might bear much fruit through prayers offered up in the name of Jesus Christ!
 
  • Feb 14 EMPD
  • Project 41 is an effort in a violent, desertified country to produce biofuels (and hope) through the nonfood biomass of the Jatropha tree.
  • Jan 14 EMPD
  • New Delhi's air pollution is hazardous to those who live there. Conservation efforts seek to assist the Ganges River Dolphin.
  • Dec 13 EMPD
  • The Philippines struggles to climb out from the hurricane Yolanda/Haiyan. But meanwhile the nation is leading the way in Southeast Asia by hosting Lausanne's first regional conference in March.
  • Nov 13 EMPD
  • Loving Christ and his created, "the most important missions mobilization of our time," begins with mobilizing sound knowledge of ecosystems and the people groups who inhabit them. Agabus Teams are assessment teams.
  • March 13 EMPD
  • TEAM announces the appointment of an environmental strategist who introduces us to a partnership for the sake of trash pickers in Guatemala City.
  • Feb 13 EMPD
  • Forest Elephant populations are freely poached while the Central African Republic government temporarily collapses.
  • Dec 12 EMPD
  • Typhoon Bopha leads us to prayer for the climate negotiations in Doha, but also for the Life Resource Foundation which trains Filipino church planters (and sustainable agriculturalists) on the island of Mindanao.
  • Oct 12 EMPD
  • God has surprises in store, like the batfish which helps during an "algae flip" on the Jamaican coral reef. Pray for Jamaica and for the Lausanne Consultation on Creation Care and the Gospel.
  • Sep 12 EMPD
  • India experiences a cataclysmic die-off of vultures, which affects a unique "ecological service" for the Parsi people of Mumbai.
  • Aug 12 EMPD
  • A new report comes out about record ice melt on Greenland, which affects Polynesian island nations with sea level rise.
  • July 12 EMPD
  • The Kewat boat people of Varanasi India have lost their fishery, and so now revert to watermelon farming. Rio + 20 fails and so we pray for our secular environmentalist colleagues.
  • June 12 EMPD
  • Wildlife conservation in Central African Republic, amidst poachers, miners, and the police; Sending Services offered by Eden Vigil.
  • May 12 EMPD
  • We join Unilever through prayer as they seek to trace the totality of their palm oil to sustainable sources, protecting the people and the wildlife of the Sumatran Islands Lowland and Montane Forests (#26, WWF Global 200)
  • April 2012
  • Beekeepers in Egypt and globally come to grips with new studies on Colony Collapse Disorder.
  • March 2012
  • President Nasheed of the Maldives is ousted in a bloodless coup. More environmental challenges than just sea level rise affect this low-lying, Muslim, island nation.
  • February 2012
  • Moses, a church leader in the New Guinea Montane Forest (WWF #15) plants vetiver grass to prevent erosion; Cadmium spill in Chinese river threatens millions.
  • January 2012
  • What would it look like to conceptualize people groups through their ecoregions? EMPD intends to find out by praying through the WWF's Global 200, beginning with the People of the Sundarbans Mangroves of India and Bangladesh.
  • December 2011
  • Climate negotiators reconvene in Durban, South Africa for COP 17 and meet the Waste Pickers Association.
  • November 2011
  • The Tar Sands of Madagascar are even more problematic than the Canadian ones, and show little hope of profiting this poor island nation.
  • October 2011
  • Wangari Maathi, Nobel laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, passes away. Pray for her Kenya, and for its forest dwellers, the Ogiek.
  • August 2011
  • The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is threatened by collapsing glacial lakes and diminished hydro-electric potential.
  • May 2011
  • Updated news cycles can cause us to forget to pray for still pressing needs; Walmart and other corporations need our prayers for just management.
  • March 2011
  • An earthquake and tsunami devastate northern Japan and credible fears of a nuclear leak; The Lausanne Movement's Cape Town commitment makes an unprecedent call for creation care.
  • February 2011
  • Massive blizzards stir the global warming debate, but we dare not forget those suffering from them; Thailand outsources its pollution to Myanmar.
  • January 2011
  • Nepal's drying rivers result in electrical outages. Australia's raging rivers result in death. Robynn considers prayer and activism.
  • November/December 2010
  • The Book of Job suggests ways to pray for the inevitability of mining in Mongolia; Jim Ball's book informs us of black carbon source in inefficient cook stoves and its effect on global warming.
  • October 2010
  • Arsenic poisoning plagues well-digging in Bangladesh; upcoming elections in the US highlight political impasse on creation care
  • September 2010
  • More on the tragic flooding in Pakistan; a link to a very uplifting video about a wind and hydro-energy project in Afghanistan.
  • August 2010
  • Monsoon flooding leaves millions homeless in Pakistan; Wildfires feed on the record temperatures of Russia; Both events suggest links to climate change.
  • July 2010
  • Care of Creation Kenya has moved operations, expanding their discipleship and sustainable agriculture capabilities; Missions and creation care leaders meet this month in Manhattan, KS for the first ever Environmental Missions Consultation.
  • June 2010
  • Ug99, also called wheat stem rust, has the potential to severely disrupt world food supply; Preparations are underway for July's Environmental Missions Consultation.
  • May 2010
  • The Ogoni people of the Niger Delta are beset by no end of oil-related ills, including spills caused by sabotage and theft; Morocco is the first Muslim country to officially celebrate Earth Day.
  • April 2010
  • CEDAR Fund works among the drought-striken of SW China
  • March 2010
  • Care of Creation Kenya's discipleship curriculum built around reforestation and sustainable farming; biochar production and a Christar team in China
  • February 2010
  • sea level rise in the island nations of Tuvalu and (one other) which has been closed to the Gospel; on-going compassion for Haitian earthquake victims
  • January 2010
  • rescue and relief efforts following the Haitian earthquake; specific reforesters in Haiti through Eden Reforestation and the Free Methodists; SIM's work among the parched (and later drowned) villages of Southern Sudan
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