{"id":17274,"date":"2024-11-19T17:39:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T17:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/resources\/creation-care-that-makes-a-difference\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T02:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:44:33","slug":"creation-care-makes-difference","status":"publish","type":"mwcresource","link":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/resources\/creation-care-makes-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation care that makes a difference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7fc3d43a wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/resources\/assembly-17-indonesia-2022-workshops\">Indonesia 2022: Workshop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Humanity\u2019s impact on the environment demonstrates the need for a change of direction. Yet so often steps toward \u201ccreation care\u201d seem overwhelmingly large or too small to make a difference. This workshop will examine ways followers of Jesus as individuals and organizations can live into a more sustainable future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presenter: Tim Wiebe-Neufeld is Executive Minister of Mennonite Church Alberta and chairs Mennonite Church Canada\u2019s Sustainability Leadership Group. His interest in \u201ccreation care\u201d spans decades, from exploring environmental theology in his Master of Theological Studies thesis in the early 1990s to completing a Master of Environment and Business degree in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The first minutes of the workshop are not recorded. Here is the missing script:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To begin my workshop I would like to share a little bit of my own journey with Creation Care. I have two distinct childhood experiences that deeply impacted my sense of the natural world around me: and those were mountains and steel mills. I always loved trips to the west coast of Canada, where the mountains were so beautiful and awe-inspiring. It was quite the contrast from where I grew up, near the industrial sector of Hamilton. There the landscape was dominated by smokestacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Centre for Sustainable Climate Solutions has been renamed the <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainableclimatesolutions.org\/2022\/10\/24\/cscs-is-now-acc\/\u00a0\">Anabaptist Collaboration on Climate Change\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-center-for-sustainable-climate-solutions wp-block-embed-center-for-sustainable-climate-solutions\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"PCjJeHob1A\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainableclimatesolutions.org\/2022\/10\/24\/cscs-is-now-acc\/\">CSCS is now ACC!<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content lazyload\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;CSCS is now ACC!&#8221; &#8212; Center for Sustainable Climate Solutions\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sustainableclimatesolutions.org\/2022\/10\/24\/cscs-is-now-acc\/embed\/#?secret=PCjJeHob1A\" data-secret=\"PCjJeHob1A\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To contact the presenter, email CreationCare [at] mwc-cmm.org with the subject line \u201cCreation care that makes a difference\u201d Attn Tim Wiebe-Neufeld\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Creation care that makes a difference\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vJMTSuYlRko?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":103346,"template":"","network":[141],"resourcetype":[1329],"language":[165],"resourcecategory":[],"resourcetheme":[1615,330],"eventcategory":[299],"class_list":["post-17274","mwcresource","type-mwcresource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","network-creation-care-task-force","resourcetype-video-2","language-en","resourcetheme-assembly-17-indonesia-2022","resourcetheme-creation-care","eventcategory-assembly"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Creation care that makes a difference - Mennonite World Conference<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/resources\/creation-care-makes-difference\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Creation care that makes a difference - Mennonite World Conference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Indonesia 2022: Workshop Humanity\u2019s impact on the environment demonstrates the need for a change of direction. 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