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Environmental Missions Prayer Digest
July 2010 |
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Greetings!
This month's Prayer Digest is being published in the week between the Environmental Missions Consultation and the Bliss family vacation. We're exhausted, but we are heading to the Ozarks--trees, creeks, hills, lakes. We are retreating unto God. Here's how Eugene Peterson interprets Joel 2:14-15 in The Message: God says:
"And now, here's what I'm going to do:
I'm going to start all
over again.
I'm taking her back out into the wilderness
where
we had our first date, and I'll court her.
I'll give her bouquets of
roses.
I'll turn Heartbreak Valley into Acres of Hope.
She'll
respond like she did as a young girl,
those days when she was
fresh out of Egypt.
We wish you summer seasons of refreshing.
And thanks for praying.
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Pray for Care of Creation Kenya as they till new soil
Craig Sorley tells the story of their ministry's recent move
On April 19th, less than two weeks after our return, Tracy drove me (Craig) out to Kijabe Hospital, A recent class from the two-day training, "Farming God's Way," stand in a plot which, at harvest, produced four times the yield of a conventional control plot.
 | where I could see a doctor about my badly sprained ankle. As I hobbled out of our truck, we iimmediately ran into a friend from Moffat Bible College, which is located nearby. One thing led to another, and by early afternoon we found ourselves in a meeting with top leaders of the college.
To make a long story short, God has opened up a new door. Follow-up meetings at Moffat has resulted in a new partnership that offers exciting opportunities for expanding our ministry, and which meets some important needs for our family. How God has put all the pieces together has been nothing short of remarkable, and it has become very clear that He wants Care of Creation Kenya (CCK) to relocate its base of operations out to the Kijabe area. Here's a brief list of the opportunities that this move will bring: 
Let's join the Sorleys in:
Praising God for opening this new door for CCK, and that you would also pray for the following:
Praying for good relationships as we forge this new venture together with leaders at Moffat Bible College
Praying especially for our Kenyan staff members as they will need to find new homes and schools for their children.
Praying that God will provide all the funds required for
this transition.Completely relocating our base of operation is a big transition that will be costly. We will need to clear and excavate the 1 acre of land entrusted to our care, erect a fence, establish new agricultural demonstration plots, build a new tree nursery structure, construct a shed for tools & supplies, renovate an office space, and provide our Kenyan staff with a moving allowance. To date we have raised about 25% of the $12,000 needed.
Photos: Care of Creation Kenya, Sorley Family
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Praise God for a profitable Environmental Missions Consultation
Discussions ranged from Adoniram Judson's haystack prayer meeting to the displacement caused by marine protection zones.
Environmental missionaries are "those sent cross-culturally to labor with Christ--the Creator, Sustainer and Redeemer of all creation--in caring for the environment and making disciples among all peoples." This first draft of a definition was just one of the results of three-and-a-half days of discussions.
William Carey, here commemorated on an Indian postage stamp, acted as something of a muse to the Consultation. This father of a new category of missions was also a world class botanist, the founder of India's Horticultural and Agricultural Society.
 | In the entrance of our meeting room sat a bale of hay which served us as a reminder that:
- Our Consultation of 2010 was less like the grandiose gathering of missionary statesmen at the Edinburgh Conference of 1910 and more like the humble Haystack Prayer Meeting of around 1810. Like Adoniram Judson and his friends, we prayed, inquiring of God about a new category of missions.
- We were like farmhands sent out to the fields white unto harvest, owned by the Lord of the Harvest. Our consultation was a "knocking on the backdoor of the farm house." We asked God where He wants us to work next.
A group highlight was a summer evening's hike on the Konza Prairie Biological Research Station.
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Please join our consultants in:
- Praising the Lord for His participation, for His direction in our discussions.
- Praising the Lord for sending the right people. Our group was small but possessed a wealth and breadth of experience.
- Praying for Lowell Bliss and Ed Brown as we process the notes with a view to publishing helpful conclusions to help inform, support, and guide a new category of missions: Environmental Missions.
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Mobilizing for environmental missions means FIRST AND FOREMOST
mobilizing for PRAYER.
The "Forward E-mail" link below represents
one of the best ways to mobilize prayer for environmental missions. Who
among your friends and contacts would like this invitation to pray?
What should we pray for next month?
We are always asking that question of God, not only because we need to publish a new prayer digest next month, but because we want to be praying for that ministry, people group, or issue where God Himself is ready to act. If you would like to suggest a prayer focus, please contact us.
God bless you,
Lowell Bliss
Eden Vigil
Links: Contact the editors, Eden Vigil website, Donations to Eden Vigil
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